Available Drivers

amqp

AMQP 1.0 Driver

See AMQP 1.0 Protocol Driver Deployment Guide for details.

fake

Fake driver used for testing.

This driver passes messages in memory, and should only be used for unit tests.

kafka

Note: Current implementation of this driver is experimental. We will have functional and/or integrated testing enabled for this driver.

kombu

RabbitMQ Driver

The rabbit driver is the default driver used in OpenStack’s integration tests.

The driver is aliased as kombu to support upgrading existing installations with older settings.

pika

Pika Driver

The pika driver is the successor to the existing rabbit/kombu driver. It is based on the Pika client library and supports the RabbitMQ broker as the messaging back end.

See Pika Driver Deployment Guide for details.

rabbit

RabbitMQ Driver

The rabbit driver is the default driver used in OpenStack’s integration tests.

The driver is aliased as kombu to support upgrading existing installations with older settings.

zmq

ZeroMQ Driver implementation.

Provides implementation of RPC and Notifier APIs by means of ZeroMQ library.

See ZeroMQ Driver Deployment Guide for details.