[rabbitmq-discuss] Mirrored queues behind a load balancer

Mon Jul 15 18:59:35 BST 2013

Thanks!

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 12:12:48 PM UTC-5, James Lewis wrote:
>
> Hi Girish, just a disclaimer: I'm no expert and I'm only just going 
> through the motions of setting up a HA cluster myself.  However, I think I 
> can answer a couple of your questions.
>
> 1.
>
>> Likewise, if I manually create a queue on one node, it immediately shows 
>> up on the other node as well. 
>>
>
> Not unless you specifically set the queue to be mirrored.   You could 
> create a policy that matches queues using a regex (so queues starting with 
> a prefix of your choice for example) and once that policy is in place, then 
> any queue you declare that starts with that prefix will be mirrored across 
> your cluster (assuming you've set your policy to ha-all).  So basically, 
> once you've setup a cluster in rabbitmq you haven't setup mirroring.  
> You've set up a logical cluster (collection) of nodes running rabbitmq that 
> all know about each other.  To implement mirroring you then need to create 
> the policy.
>
> 2. 
>
>> Would that work? Is that the recommended approach?
>
>
> The clustering guide says yes that approach will work.  However the 
> mirrored queue guide talks about master - slave replication which makes me 
> think of setting the load balancer up to fail over to a slave in the case 
> of a master failure rather than to round-robin the requests to all nodes in 
> the cluster...  I'd appreciate it if someone could confirm this.
>
> Hopefully some of that is of use to you!  
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
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