Terminology

In the codebase as well as wiki and documentation, we use specific terminology. Here is an overview to ensure everyone is interpreting the terms the same way.

Client

Communicates with skynet to make RPC requests to services

Cluster

Your entire skynet cluster

Daemon

Responsible for monitoring, stopping, and restarting services.

Host / Node

A machine or virtual machine that your services run on.

Instance

This is 1 service running on a single port. There can be many instances of different services, and even multiple instances of the same service running on a single node.

Service

A unique skynet service that exposes RPC methods to clients