jpdurham / mirrored-rabbitmq-cluster

Code and instructions to set up a mirrored RabbitMQ cluster using AWS

Setting up a mirrored RabbitMQ cluster

Linux AMI 2015.03.0 x86_64 HVM GP2, Amazon Linux, Img Size 8GB, 2CPUs, ~couple GB swap space Create a security group for RabbitMQ, "rabbit"

• All TCP should be allowed from itself
• Custom TCP 5672 port allowed from security group on app server
• (optional) Custom TCP15672 port allowed for any specific ips you'll use to login to RabbitMQ

Once the security groups have been set up

• Run rabbitmq-user-data.sh on the master node
• Run get-erlang-cookie on the master node and copy/write down the cookie
• Run rabbitmq-user-data.sh on the slave node
• Run update-erlang-cookie on slave using the cookie from #2
• Run add-slave-to-cluster on slave with @ip-
• Setup Nginx or an internal ELB to handle failovers
• Healthcheck: ping target: TCP : 5672

Files:

• rabbitmq-user-data.sh
• get-erlang-cookie.sh
• update-erlang-cookie.sh
• add-slave-to-cluster.sh