SUMMARY.md

Table of contents

• Introduction
• What's New!
• NATS 2.0
• Compare NATS
• FAQ

NATS Concepts

• What is NATS
• Subject-Based Messaging
• Publish-Subscribe
• Request-Reply
• Queue Groups
• Acknowledgements
• Sequence Numbers

Developing With NATS

• Introduction
• Connecting
  • Connecting to the Default Server
  • Connecting to a Specific Server
  • Connecting to a Cluster
  • Connection Name
  • Setting a Connect Timeout
  • Ping/Pong Protocol
  • Turning Off Echo'd Messages
  • Miscellaneous functionalities
• Automatic Reconnections
  • Disabling Reconnect
  • Set the Number of Reconnect Attempts
  • Avoiding the Thundering Herd
  • Pausing Between Reconnect Attempts
  • Listening for Reconnect Events
  • Buffering Messages During Reconnect Attempts
• Securing Connections
  • Authenticating with a User and Password
  • Authenticating with a Token
  • Authenticating with an NKey
  • Authenticating with a Credentials File
  • Encrypting Connections with TLS
• Receiving Messages
  • Synchronous Subscriptions
  • Asynchronous Subscriptions
  • Unsubscribing
  • Unsubscribing After N Messages
  • Replying to a Message
  • Wildcard Subscriptions
  • Queue Subscriptions
  • Draining Messages Before Disconnect
  • Structured Data
• Sending Messages
  • Including a Reply Subject
  • Request-Reply Semantics
  • Caches, Flush and Ping
  • Sending Structured Data
• Monitoring the Connection
  • Listen for Connection Events
  • Slow Consumers
• Tutorials
  • Explore NATS Pub/Sub
  • Explore NATS Request/Reply
  • Explore NATS Queueing
  • Advanced Connect and Custom Dialer in Go

NATS Server

• Installing
• Running
  • Windows Service
• Clients
• Flags
• Configuration
  • Securing NATS
    • Enabling TLS
    • Authentication
      • Tokens
      • Username/Password
      • TLS Authentication
      • NKeys
      • Authentication Timeout
    • Authorization
    • Multi Tenancy using Accounts
    • Decentralized JWT Authentication/Authorization
      • Account lookup using Resolver
      • Memory Resolver Tutorial
      • Mixed Authentication/Authorization Setup
  • Clustering
    • Configuration
    • TLS Authentication
  • Super-cluster with Gateways
    • Configuration
  • Leaf Nodes
    • Configuration
  • Logging
  • Monitoring
  • System Events
    • System Events & Decentralized JWT Tutorial
• Managing A NATS Server
  • Upgrading a Cluster
  • Slow Consumers
  • Signals
• NATS and Docker
  • Tutorial
  • Docker Swarm
  • Python and NGS Running in Docker

NATS Tools

• Introduction
• mkpasswd
• nk
• nsc
  • Basics
  • Streams
  • Services
  • Signing Keys
  • Revocation
  • Managed Operators
• nats-account-server
  • Basics
  • Inspecting JWTs
  • Directory Store
  • Update Notifications
• nats-top
  • Tutorial
• nats-bench

NATS Streaming Concepts

• Introduction
• Relation to NATS
• Client Connections
• Channels
  • Message Log
  • Subscriptions
    • Regular
    • Durable
    • Queue Group
    • Redelivery
• Store Interface
• Store Encryption
• Clustering
  • Supported Stores
  • Configuration
  • Auto Configuration
  • Containers
• Fault Tolerance
  • Active Server
  • Standby Servers
  • Shared State
  • Failover
• Partitioning
• Monitoring
  • Endpoints

Developing With NATS Streaming

• Introduction
• Connecting to NATS Streaming
• Publishing to a Channel
• Receiving Messages from a Channel
• Durable Subscriptions
• Queue Subscriptions
• Acknowledgements
• The Streaming Protocol

NATS Streaming Server

• Important Changes
• Installing
• Running
• Configuring
  • Command Line Arguments
  • Configuration File
  • Store Limits
  • Persistence
    • File Store
    • SQL Store
  • Securing
• Process Signaling
• Windows Service
• Embedding NATS Streaming Server
• Docker Swarm

NATS Protocol

• Protocol Demo
• Client Protocol
  • Developing a Client
• NATS Cluster Protocol

NATS on Kubernetes

• Introduction
• Basic NATS and NATS Streaming Setup
• Creating a Kubernetes Cluster
• NATS Streaming Cluster with FT Mode
• NATS and Prometheus Operator
• NATS Cluster and Cert Manager
• Securing a NATS Cluster with cfssl
• Using a Load Balancer for External Access to NATS
• Creating a NATS Super Cluster in Digital Ocean with Helm
• From Zero to K8S to Leafnodes using Helm