How to make RabbitMQ queues failover?

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Hongli picture Hongli · Aug 5, 2010 · Viewed 14k times · Source

RabbitMQ supports clustering by default, but queues aren't replicated and are bound to the node on which they're created. I'm now looking for ways to make RabbitMQ highly available other than the DRBD solution that they've documented, because it seems like a waste of resources to reserve an entire server that's doing nothing but waiting for the active server to go down.

I'm thinking about a setup in which there are two queues. When a message is published, I want the RabbitMQ cluster to send the message to either of the two queues, whichever one is up. I know that the publisher will get an error if it tries to publish to a queue that's down and that the publisher can try again with the other queue, but I'm wondering whether this can be done automatically at the cluster level so that I don't have to write client code to handle it. Can this be done?

Answer

Vadym Chekan picture Vadym Chekan · Feb 8, 2012

Recently RabbitMQ added active/active native support. http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html

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