[rabbitmq-discuss] active/active HA and publishers/consumers

Thu Sep 8 15:03:13 BST 2011

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:40:19AM -0700, Steve Martin wrote:
> I, too, would like to echo John's initial query.
> I have an active/active HA cluster and would like to seek some
> guidance on how best to configure my system with regards to how to
> know where to publish to/consume from.
> If the master fails and a slave is promoted, how do I know what the
> new master is or can I publish to the slave (my thoughts are no but I
> have to ask)?

You can publish from _any_ node in the cluster. It doesn't matter. The
nodes in the cluster know where the master is and will forward
publications internally.

Matthew