What is Nacos Overview

Welcome to Nacos!

Nacos /nɑ:kəʊs/ is the acronym for 'Dynamic Naming and Configuration Service'，an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications。

Nacos is committed to help you discover, configure, and manage your microservices. It provides a set of simple and useful features enabling you to realize dynamic service discovery, service configuration, service metadata and traffic management.

Nacos makes it easier and faster to construct, deliver and manage your microservices platform. It is the infrastructure that supports a service-centered modern application architecture with a microservices or cloud-native approach.

Service is a first-class citizen in Nacos. Nacos supports discovering, configuring, and managing almost all types of services:

Kubernetes Service

& Dubbo RPC Service

Spring Cloud RESTful Service

Key features of Nacos:

A picture to understand Nacos, the following structure will be described in detail.

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Large picture of characteristics: To introduce the characteristics of the problem domain we want to solve from the functional characteristics and non-functional characteristics.

Larger architecture: Get a quick entry into the Nacos world with a clear architecture

Business picture: Business scenarios that can be supported with current features, and best practices

Big picture of the ecology: systematically sorting out the relationship between Nacos and mainstream technology ecology

Big picture of advantage: showcase Nacos core competitiveness

Strategic picture: Nacos's macro advantage from strategic to tactical level

As the figure above shows, Nacos seamlessly supports open source ecologies including Dubbo and Dubbo Mesh, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes and CNCF.

Use Nacos to simplify your solutions in service discovery, configuration management, and service governance and management. With Nacos, microservices management in open source system is easy.

For more information about how to use Nacos with other open source projects, see the following:

Use Nacos with Kubernetes

Use Nacos with Dubbo

Use Nacos with gRPC

Use Nacos with Spring Cloud

Use Nacos with Istio

Continue with quick start to get started with Nacos.