diff --git a/chris_backend/config/settings/local.py b/chris_backend/config/settings/local.py
index 296cd494..2cac4fa0 100755
--- a/chris_backend/config/settings/local.py
+++ b/chris_backend/config/settings/local.py
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@
 CORS_EXPOSE_HEADERS = ['Allow', 'Content-Type', 'Content-Length']
 
 
+# NATS settings
+NATS_ADDRESS = 'nats://nats:4222'
+
 # Celery settings
 
 #CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost'
diff --git a/chris_backend/config/settings/production.py b/chris_backend/config/settings/production.py
index 94f04bcc..2e9da7f9 100755
--- a/chris_backend/config/settings/production.py
+++ b/chris_backend/config/settings/production.py
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ def get_secret(setting, secret_type=env):
 CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = get_secret('DJANGO_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS', env.list)
 
 
+# NATS SETTINGS
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+NATS_ADDRESS = get_secret('NATS_ADDRESS')
+
+
 # CELERY SETTINGS
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CELERY_BROKER_URL = get_secret('CELERY_BROKER_URL')
diff --git a/docker-compose_just.yml b/docker-compose_just.yml
index f46fd2a2..f3ea8c62 100755
--- a/docker-compose_just.yml
+++ b/docker-compose_just.yml
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ services:
         condition: service_healthy
       rabbitmq:
         condition: service_started
+      nats:
+        condition: service_started
       cube-nonroot-user-volume-fix:
         condition: service_completed_successfully
     networks:
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index e4131083..6014b949 100755
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ PyYAML==6.0.1
 whitenoise[brotli]==6.5.0
 PyJWT===2.8.0
 channels[daphne]==4.1.0
+nats-py==2.9.0
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