Glossary

A network of Skupper sites linked together to share services.

In Skupper, the Kubernetes service concept is extended to allow communication with sites outside the cluster. When you define a service using Skupper, that service appears as a native service in other sites.

A Skupper site is an Skupper installation. You link sites to form a service network and share services

A secure connection between sites that enables communication and service sharing between those sites.

A system service running on a Linux machine that enables you expose services, for example a database, on the service network.