12. Smart Rabbits: extending RabbitMQ

This chapter covers Installing RabbitMQ plugins A review of interesting plugins Implementing your own custom exchange plugin

At this point you’ve learned how to use RabbitMQ as an AMQP message broker using what comes out of the box. In chapter 8 you saw that some customization was required in order to have an easier way to manage the broker. You enabled the Management plugin, which includes a slick web interface that adds a bunch of functionality to the server. The process of enabling the plugin is simple: you run a single command at the shell, rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management, and the plugin is ready to use. Taking that into account, wouldn’t it be nice if you could add custom behaviors to the broker?