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NATS Server Installation
NATS philosophy is simplicity. Installation is just decompressing a zip file and copying the binary to an appropriate directory; you can also use your favorite package manager. Here's a list of different ways you can install or run NATS:
Installing via Docker
With Docker you can install the server easily without scattering binaries and other artifacts on your system. The only pre-requisite is to install docker.
> docker pull nats:latest
latest: Pulling from library/nats
Digest: sha256:0c98cdfc4332c0de539a064bfab502a24aae18ef7475ddcc7081331502327354
Status: Image is up to date for nats:latest
docker.io/library/nats:latest
To run NATS on Docker:
> docker run -p 4222:4222 -ti nats:latest
[1] 2019/05/24 15:42:58.228063 [INF] Starting nats-server version #.#.#
[1] 2019/05/24 15:42:58.228115 [INF] Git commit [#######]
[1] 2019/05/24 15:42:58.228201 [INF] Starting http monitor on 0.0.0.0:8222
[1] 2019/05/24 15:42:58.228740 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
[1] 2019/05/24 15:42:58.228765 [INF] Server is ready
[1] 2019/05/24 15:42:58.229003 [INF] Listening for route connections on 0.0.0.0:6222
More information on containerized NATS is available here.
Installing on Kubernetes with NATS Operator
Installation via the NATS Operator is beyond this tutorial. You can read about the NATS Operator here.
Installing via a Package Manager
On Windows:
> choco install nats-server
On Mac OS:
> brew install nats-server
To test your installation (provided the executable is visible to your shell):
> nats-server
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.745919 [INF] Starting nats-server version 2.0.0
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.746240 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
...
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.746249 [INF] Server id is NBNYNR4ZNTH4N2UQKSAAKBAFLDV3PZO4OUYONSUIQASTQT7BT4ZF6WX7
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.746252 [INF] Server is ready
Downloading a Release Build
You can find the latest release of nats-server here.
Download the zip file matching your systems architecture, and unzip. For this example, assuming version 2.0.0 of the server and a Linux AMD64:
> curl -L https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/download/v2.0.0/nats-server-v2.0.0-linux-amd64.zip -o nats-server.zip
> unzip nats-server.zip -d nats-server
Archive: nats-server.zip
creating: nats-server-v2.0.0-darwin-amd64/
inflating: nats-server-v2.0.0-darwin-amd64/README.md
inflating: nats-server-v2.0.0-darwin-amd64/LICENSE
inflating: nats-server-v2.0.0darwin-amd64/nats-server
> cp nats-server-v2.0.0darwin-amd64/nats-server /usr/local/bin
Installing From the Source
If you have Go installed, installing the binary is easy:
> GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2
This mechanism will install a build of master, which almost certainly will not be a released version. If you are a developer and want to play with the latest, this is the easiest way.
To test your installation (provided the $GOPATH/bin is set):
> nats-server
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.745919 [INF] Starting nats-server version 2.0.0
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.746240 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
...
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.746249 [INF] Server id is NBNYNR4ZNTH4N2UQKSAAKBAFLDV3PZO4OUYONSUIQASTQT7BT4ZF6WX7
[41634] 2019/05/13 09:42:11.746252 [INF] Server is ready