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Connects applications and microservices together across Clouds, Kubernetes Clusters, or standalone VMs.

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Try out different connectivity scenarios

These examples highlight Red Hat Service Interconnect’s ability to connect services and applications across multiple environments.

Connect your local database

Connect your local database and OpenShift web apps with Red Hat Service Interconnect

Connect a locally hosted database to a web application on an OpenShift cluster, all while keeping it private from the public internet.

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Linking services

Linking services across OpenShift clusters with simple Kubernetes annotations

Use Kubernetes annotations to manage which services are securely exposed over the network by Red Hat Service Interconnect.

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Create a Red Hat Service Interconnect

Create a Red Hat Service Interconnect site using Podman containers in non-Kubernetes environments

Create a site on a Linux host that links to and from other sites, regardless of whether those sites are running in Podman or Kubernetes.

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community

More examples from the community

Remote Kafka connectivity, connecting GRPC-based services, load balancing, and more scenarios.

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Featured Service Interconnect videos

Easily connect apps across clouds with Service Interconnect
Introducing Red Hat Service Interconnect and Skupper
Kubernetes and the hybrid cloud with Skupper | DevNation Tech Talk
HTTP load-balancing with Skupper across OpenShift clusters
Cloud-Edge InCloud-Edge Interconnect: Doing it right with the Skupper project

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