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RabbitMQ

Detailed documentation on the RabbitMQ pubsub component

Component format

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: rabbitmq-pubsub
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: pubsub.rabbitmq
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: host
    value: "amqp://localhost:5672"
  - name: consumerID
    value: myapp
  - name: durable
    value: false
  - name: deletedWhenUnused
    value: false
  - name: autoAck
    value: false
  - name: deliveryMode
    value: 0
  - name: requeueInFailure
    value: false
  - name: prefetchCount
    value: 0
  - name: reconnectWait
    value: 0
  - name: concurrencyMode
    value: parallel
  - name: backOffPolicy
    value: exponential
  - name: backOffInitialInterval
    value: 100
  - name: backOffMaxRetries
    value: 16
  - name: enableDeadLetter # Optional enable dead Letter or not
    value: true
  - name: maxLen # Optional max message count in a queue
    value: 3000
  - name: maxLenBytes # Optional maximum length in bytes of a queue.
    value: 10485760
  - name: exchangeKind
    value: fanout

Spec metadata fields

Field Required Details Example
host Y Connection-string for the rabbitmq host amqp://user:pass@localhost:5672
consumerID N Consumer ID a.k.a consumer tag organizes one or more consumers into a group. Consumers with the same consumer ID work as one virtual consumer, i.e. a message is processed only once by one of the consumers in the group. If the consumer ID is not set, the dapr runtime will set it to the dapr application ID.
durable N Whether or not to use durable queues. Defaults to "false" "true", "false"
deletedWhenUnused N Whether or not the queue should be configured to auto-delete Defaults to "true" "true", "false"
autoAck N Whether or not the queue consumer should auto-ack messages. Defaults to "false" "true", "false"
deliveryMode N Persistence mode when publishing messages. Defaults to "0". RabbitMQ treats "2" as persistent, all other numbers as non-persistent "0", "2"
requeueInFailure N Whether or not to requeue when sending a negative acknowledgement in case of a failure. Defaults to "false" "true", "false"
prefetchCount N Number of messages to prefetch. Consider changing this to a non-zero value for production environments. Defaults to "0", which means that all available messages will be pre-fetched. "2"
reconnectWait N How long to wait (in seconds) before reconnecting if a connection failure occurs "0"
concurrencyMode N parallel is the default, and allows processing multiple messages in parallel (limited by the app-max-concurrency annotation, if configured). Set to single to disable parallel processing. In most situations there’s no reason to change this. parallel, single
backOffPolicy N Retry policy, "constant" is a backoff policy that always returns the same backoff delay. "exponential" is a backoff policy that increases the backoff period for each retry attempt using a randomization function that grows exponentially. Defaults to "constant". constant、exponential
backOffDuration N The fixed interval only takes effect when the policy is constant. There are two valid formats, one is the fraction with a unit suffix format, and the other is the pure digital format that will be processed as milliseconds. Valid time units are “ns”, “us” (or “µs”), “ms”, “s”, “m”, “h”. Defaults to "5s". "5s"、"5000"
backOffInitialInterval N The backoff initial interval on retry. Only takes effect when the policy is exponential. There are two valid formats, one is the fraction with a unit suffix format, and the other is the pure digital format that will be processed as milliseconds. Valid time units are “ns”, “us” (or “µs”), “ms”, “s”, “m”, “h”. Defaults to "500" "50"
backOffMaxInterval N The backoff initial interval on retry. Only takes effect when the policy is exponential. There are two valid formats, one is the fraction with a unit suffix format, and the other is the pure digital format that will be processed as milliseconds. Valid time units are “ns”, “us” (or “µs”), “ms”, “s”, “m”, “h”. Defaults to "60s" "60000"
backOffMaxRetries N The maximum number of retries to process the message before returning an error. Defaults to "0" which means the component will not retry processing the message. "-1" will retry indefinitely until the message is processed or the application is shutdown. Any positive number is treated as the maximum retry count. "3"
backOffRandomizationFactor N Randomization factor, between 1 and 0, including 0 but not 1. Randomized interval = RetryInterval * (1 ± backOffRandomizationFactor). Defaults to "0.5". "0.5"
backOffMultiplier N Backoff multiplier for the policy. Increments the interval by multiplying it with the multiplier. Defaults to "1.5" "1.5"
backOffMaxElapsedTime N After MaxElapsedTime the ExponentialBackOff returns Stop. There are two valid formats, one is the fraction with a unit suffix format, and the other is the pure digital format that will be processed as milliseconds. Valid time units are “ns”, “us” (or “µs”), “ms”, “s”, “m”, “h”. Defaults to "15m" "15m"
enableDeadLetter N Enable forwarding Messages that cannot be handled to a dead-letter topic. Defaults to "false" "true", "false"
maxLen N The maximum number of messages of a queue and its dead letter queue (if dead letter enabled). If both maxLen and maxLenBytes are set then both will apply; whichever limit is hit first will be enforced. Defaults to no limit. "1000"
maxLenBytes N Maximum length in bytes of a queue and its dead letter queue (if dead letter enabled). If both maxLen and maxLenBytes are set then both will apply; whichever limit is hit first will be enforced. Defaults to no limit. "1048576"
exchangeKind N Exchange kind of the rabbitmq exchange. Defaults to "fanout". "fanout","topic"

Backoff policy introduction

Backoff retry strategy can instruct the dapr sidecar how to resend the message. By default, the retry strategy is turned off, which means that the sidecar will send a message to the service once. When the service returns a result, the message will be marked as consumption regardless of whether it is correct or not. The above is based on the condition of autoAck and requeueInFailure is setting to false(if requeueInFailure is set to true, the message will get a second chance).

But in some cases, you may want dapr to retry pushing message with an (exponential or constant) backoff strategy until the message is processed normally or the number of retries is exhausted. This maybe useful when your service breaks down abnormally but the sidecar is not stopped together. Adding backoff policy will retry the message pushing during the service downtime, instead of marking these message as consumed.

Create a RabbitMQ server


You can run a RabbitMQ server locally using Docker:

docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit rabbitmq:3

You can then interact with the server using the client port: localhost:5672.


The easiest way to install RabbitMQ on Kubernetes is by using the Helm chart:

helm install rabbitmq stable/rabbitmq

Look at the chart output and get the username and password.

This will install RabbitMQ into the default namespace. To interact with RabbitMQ, find the service with: kubectl get svc rabbitmq.

For example, if installing using the example above, the RabbitMQ server client address would be:

rabbitmq.default.svc.cluster.local:5672

Use topic exchange to route messages

Setting exchangeKind to "topic" uses the topic exchanges, which are commonly used for the multicast routing of messages. Messages with a routing key will be routed to one or many queues based on the routing key defined in the metadata when subscribing. The routing key is defined by the routingKey metadata. For example, if an app is configured with a routing key keyA:

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: order_pub_sub
spec:
  topic: B
  route: /B
  pubsubname: pubsub
  metadata:
    routingKey: keyA

It will receive messages with routing key keyA, and messages with other routing keys are not received.

// publish messages with routing key `keyA`, and these will be received by the above example.
client.PublishEvent(context.Background(), "pubsub", "B", []byte("this is a message"), dapr.PublishEventWithMetadata(map[string]string{"routingKey": "keyA"}))
// publish messages with routing key `keyB`, and these will not be received by the above example.
client.PublishEvent(context.Background(), "pubsub", "B", []byte("this is another message"), dapr.PublishEventWithMetadata(map[string]string{"routingKey": "keyB"}))

For more information see rabbitmq exchanges.


Last modified February 24, 2022: Add doc for pubsub rabbitmq exchage kind (#2207) (20f51d53)