[rabbitmq-discuss] Topic Exchange Question

[Tim Watson]

Hi Richard,

On 6 Feb 2013, at 06:19, Richard Raseley wrote:

> Thank you for that information.
> 
> I am in the process of setting up some test machines now, but based on what I am reading it seems that the bound exchanges must be instantiated within the same RabbitMQ instance or cluster.
> 
> In my situation I'd like to have a topic exchange that could route to a local queue or "foreign" exchange based on the topic.

If you want to have interactions between exchanges on separate Rabbit nodes, then you should look at the federation plugin.

> Would you comment on whether or not that is possible with the "exchange.bind" method?
> 

It's not going to be quite that simple, no. But federation may do what you want, with a bit of configuration.