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* Update the tools called in the dev environment
* More RMQ purges from architecture docs
* Remove the old clusterdev target
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@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ Tasks, Queues and Workers
To accomplish this, AWX makes use of a "Task Queue" abstraction. Task Queues are used as a mechanism to distribute work across machines in an AWX installation. A Task Queue's input is a unit of work called a Task. Dedicated worker processes running on every AWX node constantly monitor these queues for new work to perform.
AWX communicates with these worker processes to mediate between clients and workers. This is done via distributed RabbitMQ queues and the already-acknowledged local queue that the Dispatcher is working through. Simply put: to initiate a task, the client (generally, Python code in the AWX API) publishes a message to a queue, and RabbitMQ then delivers that message to one or more workers.
By default, when AWX creates queues in RabbitMQ, it creates them as *durable* queues in RabbitMQ (which allows for message persistence at the cost of lower performance). For increased message throughput (at the risk of message loss on server restarts), set BROKER_DURABILITY=False, and AWX will create _transient_ queues instead.
AWX communicates with these worker processes to mediate between clients and workers. This is done via distributed queues and the already-acknowledged local queue that the Dispatcher is working through. Simply put: to initiate a task, the client (generally, Python code in the AWX API) publishes a message to a queue, which is then delivered to one or more workers.
Clustered AWX installations consist of multiple workers spread across every
node, giving way to high availability and horizontal scaling.