RabbitMQ setup and cluster configuration on a windows network
Queuing has been integral part of application architecture for quite sometime and therefore there are number of frameworks available to let you manage Queue/Bus. Queue as you may know is used when you have one node to process your message and Bus (Service Bus/Topic) is used when there is more than one node that needs to process the message. RabbitMQ is one of available framework along with MSMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus and etc. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular framework as it can be used to create highly available and fault tolerant cluster of nodes that hold the queue's and message's for processing. In the writeup we will try to install RabbitMQ cluster on couple of windows machines which can be easily translated to containerised application using docker. 1) To install docker visit RabbitMQ official and download required file, once downloaded execute the exe and follow the wizard. You may be asked to install Erlang in the process as that is one of the primary requiremen