Topology Manager for CM and/or CD?

Question

I'm looking at Nuno's Topology Manager example code. His examples include getting:

• Environment IDs and statuses (offline)
• Purposes
• Base and Context URLs

Is Tridion.TopologyManager.Client something you would use for CM only?

Would it be a good fit to discover or get information in delivery or the presentation server (e.g. to retrieve and display a URL)?

Answer 1

Yeah, I would say the Topology Manager client is meant for CM only. Especially since it likely won't work on Unix-based operating systems :)

Generally, the approach on the CD side is to configure the URL to the Discovery Service -- which then allows you to authenticate, find all of the capabilities and URLs to other services, etc. That information would be restricted to the current Environment, though.