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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

Chapter 6. Managing Your RabbitMQ Server

After talking about the details of the plugins and plugin development, we are now ready to look into the management of the RabbitMQ server. To get the best out of RabbitMQ, we need to manage it effectively. RabbitMQ provides support for the following:

  • Adding, updating, and showing users, virtual hosts, and permissions

  • Declaring, listing, and deleting exchanges, queues, and bindings

  • Sending and receiving messages

  • Monitoring the queue length, message rates globally and per channel, data rates per connection, and so forth

  • Exporting/importing object definitions to JSON

  • Forcing close connections

  • Purging queues

We can manage the RabbitMQ server using command-line tool called rabbitmqctl using a plugin called Management Plugin, that is provided by default from RabbitMQ and accessing RabbitMQ using the REST APIs. Therefore, our chapter is designed with the following topics:

  • Management via a command line

  • Management via a web plugin

  • Management via a REST API