rabbit-herder is a tool for clustering RabbitMQ hosts in an AWS Autoscale group.

There are a number of assumptions and requirements for using this tool:

• All hosts have the same erlang cookie
• You are NOT using the environment variable RABBITMQ_USE_LONGNAME
• The autoscale group is in a VPC with DNS resolution and hostnames enabled
• The instance running this tool has an IAM role with permissions to:
  • DescribeAutoscalingInstances (autoscaling)
  • DescribeInstances (ec2)

Usage of rabbit-herder:
  -a, --api="http://localhost:15672": The rabbitmq API to connect to.
  -d, --dry-run[=false]: Print commands, but don't run them
  -p, --password="guest": The password for the API
  -u, --user="guest": The user account for the API
  -v, --version[=false]: Print version and exit

To build the docker images, simply run make

• Use Consul/etcd2/zookeeper for locks
• Add tests/CI
• Automate docker builds

MIT License. See License for full text