Chapter 7. Supported standards and protocols
Skupper supports the following protocols for your service network:
- TCP - default
- HTTP1
- HTTP2
When exposing or creating a service, you can specify the protocol, for example:
$ skupper expose deployment hello-world-backend --port 8080 --protocol <protocol>
where <protocol> can be:
- tcp
- http
- http2
When choosing which protocol to specify, note the following:
-
tcpsupports any protocol overlayed on TCP, for example, HTTP1 and HTTP2 work when you specifytcp. -
If you specify
httporhttp2, the IP address reported by a client may not be accessible. All service network traffic is converted to AMQP messages in order to traverse the service network.
TCP is implemented as a single streamed message, whereas HTTP1 and HTTP2 are implemented as request/response message routing.
