Skupper allows you to create a Virtual Application Network (VAN) enabling secure, location independent communication between systems including public cloud, private cloud, virtual machines (VMs), bare metal hosts, and mainframes.

Version 1 of Skupper, v1 branch is working in many production environments and has significantly reduced the time, effort and expense of deploying applications to a hybrid multicloud.

The main branch focuses on the development of the upcoming major release of the Skupper project based on feedback from users.

The plan is to produce a number of "previews" on the branch in order to get further user feedback and refine the implementation of this major release. The v2 version is intended for evaluation purposes only and should not be used in production environments.

The objective of the next Skupper major release is to better support a full declarative model so that applications and VANs can be more easily deployed in fully automated frameworks.

The release includes:

• The introducton of Custom Resource Definitions CRDs for a more intuitive and flexible declarative interfaces for users, with an equivalent implementation for Linux.
• Architectural improvements for the primary components (e.g. controller, cli, and non-kube executable)
• A flexible PKI implementation allowing users to easily provide their own certificates as required
• A network collector and console that is deployed separately from the site components
• Simpler integrations for centralized application network definition

Skupper v2 sites are not interoperable with v1 sites. The plan is to provide tools to assist users to migrate their v1 installations to a v2 deployment as the release approaches.

Skupper v1 will continue to be maintained but no new significant features are planned.

Using Skupper v2

• Simple Declarative Example
• Network Observer Deployment
• Redis Example
• CLI Example
• Helm Charts

For any questions, feedback or reporting of issues encountered using the v2 preview, please use the Skupper community mailing list or create a GitHub issue as described on the Skupper web site community page