Self-hosting NATS on Dokploy in under 10 minutes

Short summary

A Dokploy Compose service template makes deploying a NATS message bus trivial—token auth, JetStream persistence, WebSocket endpoint, and HTTP monitoring in under 10 minutes. The tutorial covers securing the /varz monitoring endpoint with basic auth in Traefik, routing WebSocket traffic, and managing server tokens via environment variables rather than configuration files. The quochuydev/dokploy-nats repository includes working examples for Fastify and Node.js, intentionally leaving out clustering and JWT auth so teams can extend it to fit their needs.

• •Dokploy Compose template reduces NATS setup from hours of YAML to 10 minutes
• •Includes token auth, JetStream persistence, WebSocket, and HTTP monitoring
• •Security-first with basic auth for /varz, environment-variable tokens, TLS-ready

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