<p align="center"> <img src="logos/nats-horizontal-color.png" width="300" alt="NATS Logo"> </p> [NATS](https://nats.io) is a simple, secure and performant communications system for digital systems, services and devices. NATS is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ([CNCF](https://cncf.io)). NATS has over [40 client language implementations](https://nats.io/download/), and its server can run on-premise, in the cloud, at the edge, and even on a Raspberry Pi. NATS can secure and simplify design and operation of modern distributed systems. [![License][License-Image]][License-Url] [![Build][Build-Status-Image]][Build-Status-Url] [![Release][Release-Image]][Release-Url] [![Slack][Slack-Image]][Slack-Url] [![Coverage][Coverage-Image]][Coverage-Url] [![Docker Downloads][Docker-Image]][Docker-Url] [![CII Best Practices][CIIBestPractices-Image]][CIIBestPractices-Url] [![Artifact Hub][ArtifactHub-Image]][ArtifactHub-Url] ## Documentation - [Official Website](https://nats.io) - [Official Documentation](https://docs.nats.io) - [FAQ](https://docs.nats.io/reference/faq) - Watch [a video overview](https://rethink.synadia.com/episodes/1/) of NATS. - Watch [this video from SCALE 13x](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm63oAVPqAM) to learn more about its origin story and design philosophy. ## Contact - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nats_io): Follow us on Twitter! - [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/natsio): Where you can ask questions - [Slack](https://natsio.slack.com): Click [here](https://slack.nats.io) to join. You can ask question to our maintainers and to the rich and active community. ## Contributing If you are interested in contributing to NATS, read about our... - [Contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) - [Report issues or propose Pull Requests](https://github.com/nats-io) [License-Url]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 [License-Image]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache2-blue.svg [Docker-Image]: https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/_/nats.svg [Docker-Url]: https://hub.docker.com/_/nats [Slack-Image]: https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-on%20slack-green [Slack-Url]: https://slack.nats.io [Fossa-Url]: https://app.fossa.io/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Fnats-io%2Fnats-server?ref=badge_shield [Fossa-Image]: https://app.fossa.io/api/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Fnats-io%2Fnats-server.svg?type=shield [Build-Status-Url]: https://travis-ci.com/github/nats-io/nats-server [Build-Status-Image]: https://travis-ci.org/nats-io/nats-server.svg?branch=main [Release-Url]: https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/latest [Release-image]: https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/nats-io/nats-server [Coverage-Url]: https://coveralls.io/r/nats-io/nats-server?branch=main [Coverage-image]: https://coveralls.io/repos/github/nats-io/nats-server/badge.svg?branch=main [ReportCard-Url]: https://goreportcard.com/report/nats-io/nats-server [ReportCard-Image]: https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/nats-io/nats-server [CIIBestPractices-Url]: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1895 [CIIBestPractices-Image]: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1895/badge [ArtifactHub-Url]: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/nats/nats [ArtifactHub-Image]: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://artifacthub.io/badge/repository/nats [github-release]: https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/ ## Roadmap The NATS product roadmap can be found [here](https://nats.io/about/#roadmap). ## Adopters Who uses NATS? See our [list of users](https://nats.io/#who-uses-nats) on [https://nats.io](https://nats.io). ## Security ### Security Audit A third party security audit was performed by Cure53, you can see the full report [here](https://github.com/nats-io/nats-general/blob/main/reports/Cure53_NATS_Audit.pdf). ### Reporting Security Vulnerabilities If you've found a vulnerability or a potential vulnerability in the NATS server, please let us know at [nats-security](mailto:security@nats.io). ## License Unless otherwise noted, the NATS source files are distributed under the Apache Version 2.0 license found in the LICENSE file.