nacos

Project Overview

Nacos (official site: nacos.io) is an easy-to-use platform designed for dynamic service discovery and configuration management, helping you build cloud-native applications and microservices platforms easily. Service is a first-class citizen in Nacos.

Key Features

• Service Discovery & Health Check: Services register and discover via DNS or HTTP interface with real-time health checks
• Dynamic Configuration Management: Centralized management across all environments with no redeployment required
• Dynamic DNS Service: Weighted routing, load balancing, and flexible routing policies
• Service & Metadata Management: Service dashboard for metadata, configuration, health, and metrics

Target Audience

• Microservices developers and architects
• Cloud-native application developers
• Teams who need service discovery and configuration management

Quick Start

1. Download from the latest stable release
2. Linux/Unix/Mac: sh startup.sh -m standalone
3. Windows: startup.cmd -m standalone or double-click startup.cmd

Core Advantages

• Open-sourced by Alibaba, production-proven
• Supports almost all types of services (Dubbo/gRPC, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes)
• Four core functions: service discovery, configuration management, DNS service, and metadata management
• Supports both DNS and HTTP interfaces

System Requirements

• OS: Linux/Unix/Mac, Windows