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NATS.io example setup to use JWT and NAS for authentication/authorization

NATS.io JWT example

NATS.io example setup to use JWT and NAS for authentication/authorization

Requirements

Tested on linux, ensure you have a recent version of

• docker
• docker-compose
• make

Setup

1. Run make setup to initialize the accounts, see setup.sh for details
2. Run make box and insert the command nsc list accounts.
3. Copy the Public key for SYS account from the output to config/nats-server.conf in the system_account field.
4. Reload NATS to pickup the configuration docker-compose restart nats
5. Update the keys/JWT parameters with make push

Testing

Using the user1 credential, the client should connect and subscribe to user.user1.> but not others. Also support protocols such as websocket, nats, mqtt. The limit of concurrent connections is 25.

References

• https://docs.nats.io/nats-server/configuration/sys_accounts/sys_accounts
• https://docs.nats.io/nats-tools/nas/notifications
• https://docs.nats.io/nats-tools/nsc
• https://docs.nats.io/nats-server/configuration/securing_nats/jwt/resolver