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

[John Lemp]

I have used HAProxy locally for dev/testing. The Manning book that is
currently in early access has some good walkthough examples
http://www.manning.com/videla/

-John

On Sep 8, 11:25 am, Steve Martin <st... at lemansholdings.co.uk> wrote:
> It suddenly clicked, thank you.
> I had in my mind the model of database log-shipping, which was incorrect.
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> On a tangential albeit related note, can anyone suggest an approach for
> rigging up a load balancer in a development environment in order that I may
> test out my application and HA cluster?
> I currently have a number of VMs running RMQ in the cluster (several
> instances of VMWare player running Ubunto 10.10 as I preferred modelling the
> ultimate production scenario rather than setting up a single machine
> cluster)
> Is there a simple load balancing virtual appliance that can be used in the
> same manner, and will this open up a networking can of worms? (I'm
> predominately a software tech rather than a networker)
>
> Steve
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> On 8 September 2011 15:03, Matthew Sackman <matt... at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
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> > 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)?
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> > 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.
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> > Matthew
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