# Mainflux

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Mainflux is modern, scalable, secure open source and patent-free IoT cloud platform written in Go.

It accepts user, device, and application connections over various network protocols (i.e. HTTP,
MQTT, WebSocket, CoAP), thus making a seamless bridge between them. It is used as the IoT middleware
for building complex IoT solutions.

For more details, check out the [official documentation][docs].

## Features

- Protocol bridging (i.e. HTTP, MQTT, WebSocket, CoAP)
- Device management and provisioning
- Fine-grained access control
- Container-based deployment using [Docker][docker]

## Quickstart

#### Docker

To start the docker composition, execute the [startup script](bin/mainflux-docker.sh) from `bin`
directory:

```
./mainflux-docker.sh start  
```

If the command successfully completes, you can verify that the all images are up & running by
executing the following command in the terminal window:

```
docker ps
```

The composition can be terminated in the following way:

```
./mainflux-docker.sh stop
```

#### From sources

To download all the sources, and place them in appropriate locations (i.e. $GOPATH), use the
[installation script](bin/mainflux-install.sh). Once it completes, the script will provide the
instructions on how to finish the manual installation (i.e. install the required infrastructure).

## Contributing

Thank you for your interest in Mainflux and wish to contribute!

1. Take a look at our [open issues](https://github.com/mainflux/mainflux/issues).
2. Checkout the [contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn more about our style and conventions.
3. Make your changes compatible to our workflow.

## Community

- [Google group][forum]
- [Gitter][gitter]
- [Twitter][twitter]

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