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nats-box

A lightweight container with NATS and NATS Streaming utilities.

• nats-pub - publish NATS messages
• nats-req - send a request, receive a response over NATS
• nats-sub - subscribe to NATS messages on a topic
• stan-pub - publish messages to NATS Streaming
• stan-sub - subscribe to messages from NATS Streaming
• nats-top - top-like tool for monitoring NATS servers
• nsc - create NATS accounts and users

Getting started

Use tools to interact with NATS.

$ docker run --rm -it synadia/nats-box:latest
~ # nats-pub -s demo.nats.io test 'Hello World'
Published [test] : 'Hello World'

Running in Kubernetes:

kubectl run -i --rm --tty nats-box --image=synadia/nats-box --restart=Never
nats-box:~# nats-sub -s nats hello &
nats-box:~# nats-pub -s nats hello world 

Using NSC to manage NATS v2 users and accounts

You can mount a local volume to get nsc accounts, nkeys, and other config back on the host.

$ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/nsc:/nsc synadia/nats-box:latest

# In case NSC not initialized already:
nats-box:~# nsc init -d /nsc
$ tree -L 2 nsc/
nsc/
├── accounts
│   ├── nats
│   └── nsc.json
└── nkeys
    ├── creds
    └── keys

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