Core Concepts

Fundamental Skupper V2 concepts — the building blocks of application networks.

• Skupper V2 Overview and Concept Model - Core concepts and architecture of Skupper V2 — sites, networks, services, and applications
• Listener, Connector, and Routing Key Model - How Skupper V2 exposes services using the Listener + Connector + Routing Key pattern
• MultiKeyListener — Explicit Traffic Distribution - How MultiKeyListener provides per-service weighted load balancing and priority failover across routing keys
• Load Balancing and Failover Mechanisms - Two approaches to traffic distribution — link cost (implicit) vs MultiKeyListener (explicit)
• Site Configuration — Edge Mode, Link Access, and HA - How edge, linkAccess, and ha fields interact to define site topology and capabilities
• AttachedConnector and AttachedConnectorBinding - Cross-namespace service exposure on Kubernetes without deploying a router in the workload namespace