Topology Manager

Topology Manager forms the bridge between the Content Manager and Content Delivery environments. By decoupling the two environments, it becomes easy to swap out environments on either side, and to separate concerns by specific roles in your organization.

Topology Manager maps logical publishing targets selected by the end user to physical publishing destinations on the presentation environments. Because Topology Manager is a separate software component from Content Manager, it makes it easy for you to extend the delivery environment to include mode endpoints, or to move your delivery environment into the Cloud.

Each Content Manager environment has its own Topology Manager instance and Topology Manager database. The user interface consists of simple GUI and a number of PowerShell cmdlets.

The following diagram illustrates the high-level architecture of Topology Manager: