RabbitMQ in Depth

Appendix. Getting set up

This appendix covers setting up VirtualBox, Vagrant, and the RabbitMQ in Depth Vagrant virtual machine (VM) that contains everything needed to test code samples, experiment, and follow along with the book.

VirtualBox is the virtualization software we’ll use to run all of the examples, and Vagrant is an automation tool for setting up the VM. You’ll need to install these two applications, and then you’ll be able to set up the RabbitMQ in Depth VM by downloading a zip file containing the Vagrant configuration and Chef cookbooks. Once they’re downloaded and extracted, you can start the VM by running a single command, and you’ll be able to interactively test the code listings and examples in the book.

It’s a fairly straightforward ...