Summary

In this chapter, we saw how to administer a standalone RabbitMQ broker along with its components, users, vhosts, permissions, queues, exchanges, bindings, and policies. We discussed the structure of a typical RabbitMQ installation (along with the parameters that allow us to configure different locations for various parts of the broker) and how to provide further configuration in terms of environment variables and the rabbitmq.config file. We discussed administrative tasks such as backing up and restoring the RabbitMQ database, updating a RabbitMQ broker, and plugin installation and management of the broker using the management REST API. In the next chapter we will explore what clustering support the message broker provides for the purpose ...

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