Service is a first-class citizen in Nacos. Nacos supports almost all type of services，for example，Dubbo/gRPC service、Spring Cloud RESTFul service or Kubernetes service.
Nacos provides four major funcations.
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Service Discovery and Service Health Check
Nacos makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. Nacos also provides real-time healthchecks of services to prevent sending requests to unhealthy hosts or service instance.
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Dynamic Configuration Management
Dynamic Configuration Service allows you to manage configurations of all services in a centralized and dynamic manner across all environments. Nacos eliminates the need to redeploy applications and services when configurations are updated，which makes configuration changes more efficient and agile.
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Dynamic DNS Service
Nacos supports weighted routing, making it easier for you to implement mid-tier load balancing, flexible routing policies, flow control, and simple DNS resolution services in the production environment within your data center. It helps you to implement DNS-based service discovery easily and prevent applications from coupling to vendor-specific service discovery APIs.
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Service and MetaData Management
Nacos provides an easy-to-use service dashboard to help you manage your services metadata, configuration, kubernetes DNS, service health and metrics statistics.
It is super easy to get started with your first project.
unzip nacos-server-0.1.0.zip
cd nacos/bin
Run the following command to start (standalone means non-cluster mode):
sh startup.sh -m standalone
Run the following command to start:
cmd startup.cmd
Or double-click the startup.cmd to run NacosServer.
For more details, see https://nacos.io/#/docs/quick-start.md
Quick start for other open-source projects:
You can view full documentation on the Nacos website: