AMQP driver for the Asynchronous Agent

Document updated on Jan 21, 2022

The AMQP driver for Async agents allows you to have KrakenD consuming AMQP queues autonomously. Routines listening to AMQP queues will react by themselves to new events and push data to your backends.

This driver is different from the AMQP backend consumer. As opposed to endpoints, async agents do not require users to request something to trigger an action. Instead, the agents connect to the queue and fire an action when an event is delivered.

Async/AMQP Driver Configuration

The AMQP driver has to be placed inside the extra_config of the async component and allows you connect to an AMQP queue (e.g: RabbitMQ). The settings are as follows:

{
    "async/amqp": {
        "host": "amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/",
        "name": "krakend",
        "exchange": "foo",
        "durable": true,
        "delete": false,
        "exclusive": false,
        "no_wait": true,
        "prefetch_count": 5,
        "auto_ack": false,
        "no_local": true
    }
}