# Hookdeck Outpost

Outpost is open-source infrastructure for delivering events to user-preferred destinations: Webhooks (HTTP), SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more. Apache 2.0 licensed, available as managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted.

## When to Use Outpost

* You're building a SaaS or API platform and need to send webhooks to your users
* You need multi-destination support beyond HTTP webhooks (SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka)
* You want self-hostable webhook delivery infrastructure
* You need multi-tenant support with per-user observability
* You want to offer your customers reliable, retryable event delivery

## Quick Start

### Managed (Hookdeck)

The fastest way to get started — Hookdeck hosts and operates Outpost for you:

1. Sign up at [hookdeck.com](https://hookdeck.com)
2. See the [Send Webhooks quickstart](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks/quickstart)

### Self-Hosted

Run Outpost on your own infrastructure:

1. See the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs)
2. Clone from [GitHub](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost)

## Supported Destinations

| Destination | Protocol |
| --- | --- |
| Webhooks | HTTP/HTTPS |
| Amazon SQS | AWS SQS |
| RabbitMQ | AMQP |
| Google Pub/Sub | gRPC |
| Amazon EventBridge | AWS EventBridge |
| Apache Kafka | Kafka protocol |

## Full Product Skills

For detailed Outpost skills:

```bash
npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills --skill outpost

```

See [hookdeck/agent-skills](https://github.com/hookdeck/agent-skills) for the complete Outpost skill, the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs), and the [GitHub repo](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost).

## Resources

* [Outpost Documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs)
* [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost)
* [Hookdeck Send Webhooks Guide](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks)