outpost
Hookdeck Outpost — open-source infrastructure for sending webhooks and events to user-preferred destinations (HTTP, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka). Use when building a SaaS platform that needs to deliver events to customers.
Skill body
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:
- Sign up at hookdeck.com
- See the Send Webhooks quickstart
Self-Hosted
Run Outpost on your own infrastructure:
- See the Outpost documentation
- Clone from GitHub
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:
npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills --skill outpost
See hookdeck/agent-skills for the complete Outpost skill, the Outpost documentation, and the GitHub repo.
Resources
Related Skills
- hookdeck-event-gateway - For receiving and ingesting webhooks (the inbound counterpart)
- hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks - Verify Hookdeck signatures on forwarded webhooks
- webhook-handler-patterns - Handler sequence, idempotency, error handling, retry logic
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