docs/daprdocs/content/en/operations/components/setup-pubsub/setup-pubsub-overview.md

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docs	Overview	Overview	General overview on set up of message brokers for Dapr Pub/Sub	10000	docs

Dapr integrates with pub/sub message buses to provide apps with the ability to create event-driven, loosely coupled architectures where producers send events to consumers via topics. It supports the configuration of multiple, named, pub/sub components per application. Each pub/sub component has a name and this name is used when publishing a message topic

Pub/Sub message buses are extensible and can be found in the components-contrib repo.

A pub/sub in Dapr is described using a Component file:

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: pubsub
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: pubsub.<NAME>
  metadata:
  - name: <KEY>
    value: <VALUE>
  - name: <KEY>
    value: <VALUE>
...

The type of pub/sub is determined by the type field, and things like connection strings and other metadata are put in the .metadata section. Even though you can put plain text secrets in there, it is recommended you use a [secret store]({{< ref component-secrets.md >}}) using a secretKeyRef

Visit [this guide]({{< ref "howto-publish-subscribe.md#step-2-publish-a-topic" >}}) for instructions on configuring pub/sub components.

Related links

• [Supported pub/sub components]({{< ref supported-pubsub >}})