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Mastering RabbitMQ

By : Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum
Book Image

Mastering RabbitMQ

By: Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problem This book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues. You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

SSL support in RabbitMQ


Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard protocol for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data; one is public key known to everyone and the other is a private key known only to the recipient of the message.

Keys, certificates, and CA certificates

OpenSSL is a software library to be used in applications that need to secure communications. It has been widely adopted by the users for Internet web servers. The library consists of open source implementations of SSL and TSL as well as basic cryptographic functions. With the help of OpenSSL, RabbitMQ can establish an encrypted communication channel and exchange signed certificates. In order to verify a certificate, a chain of trust for certificates should be formed. The last element of the chain is the root certificate, which is a self-signed certificate.

Enabling SSL support

If we look at the SSL support in RabbitMQ, it has a built...