add the ability to disable RabbitMQ queue durability

awx/main/conf.py

@@ -570,6 +570,16 @@ def _load_default_license_from_file():
 )
 
 
+register(
+    'BROKER_DURABILITY',
+    field_class=fields.BooleanField,
+    label=_('Message Durability'),
+    help_text=_('When set (the default), underlying queues will be persisted to disk.  Disable this to enable higher message bus throughput.'),
+    category=_('System'),
+    category_slug='system',
+)
+
+
 def logging_validate(serializer, attrs):
     if not serializer.instance or \
             not hasattr(serializer.instance, 'LOG_AGGREGATOR_HOST') or \

awx/main/dispatch/control.py

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 from django.conf import settings
 
 from awx.main.dispatch import get_local_queuename
-from kombu import Connection, Queue, Exchange, Producer, Consumer
+from awx.main.dispatch.kombu import Connection
+from kombu import Queue, Exchange, Producer, Consumer
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('awx.main.dispatch')
 

awx/main/dispatch/kombu.py

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+from amqp.exceptions import PreconditionFailed
+from django.conf import settings
+from kombu.connection import Connection as KombuConnection
+from kombu.transport import pyamqp
+
+import logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger('awx.main.dispatch')
+
+
+__all__ = ['Connection']
+
+
+class Connection(KombuConnection):
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        class _Channel(pyamqp.Channel):
+
+            def queue_declare(self, queue, *args, **kwargs):
+                kwargs['durable'] = settings.BROKER_DURABILITY
+                try:
+                    return super(_Channel, self).queue_declare(queue, *args, **kwargs)
+                except PreconditionFailed as e:
+                    if "inequivalent arg 'durable'" in getattr(e, 'reply_text', None):
+                        logger.error(
+                            'queue {} durability is not {}, deleting and recreating'.format(
+
+                                queue,
+                                kwargs['durable']
+                            )
+                        )
+                        self.queue_delete(queue)
+                    return super(_Channel, self).queue_declare(queue, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        class _Connection(pyamqp.Connection):
+            Channel = _Channel
+
+        class _Transport(pyamqp.Transport):
+            Connection = _Connection
+
+        self.transport_cls = _Transport

awx/main/dispatch/publish.py

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 from uuid import uuid4
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from kombu import Connection, Exchange, Producer
+from kombu import Exchange, Producer
+
+from awx.main.dispatch.kombu import Connection
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('awx.main.dispatch')
 

awx/main/management/commands/run_callback_receiver.py

@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
-from kombu import Connection, Exchange, Queue
+from kombu import Exchange, Queue
 
+from awx.main.dispatch.kombu import Connection
 from awx.main.dispatch.worker import AWXConsumer, CallbackBrokerWorker
 
 

awx/main/management/commands/run_dispatcher.py

@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
 from django.core.cache import cache as django_cache
 from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
 from django.db import connection as django_connection, connections
-from kombu import Connection, Exchange, Queue
+from kombu import Exchange, Queue
 
 from awx.main.dispatch import get_local_queuename, reaper
 from awx.main.dispatch.control import Control
+from awx.main.dispatch.kombu import Connection
 from awx.main.dispatch.pool import AutoscalePool
 from awx.main.dispatch.worker import AWXConsumer, TaskWorker
 

awx/main/queue.py

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 from django.conf import settings
 
 # Kombu
-from kombu import Connection, Exchange, Producer
+from awx.main.dispatch.kombu import Connection
+from kombu import Exchange, Producer
 from kombu.serialization import registry
 
 __all__ = ['CallbackQueueDispatcher']

awx/settings/defaults.py

@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ def IS_TESTING(argv=None):
 # Set default ports for live server tests.
 os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_LIVE_TEST_SERVER_ADDRESS', 'localhost:9013-9199')
 
+BROKER_DURABILITY = True
 BROKER_POOL_LIMIT = None
 BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672//'
 CELERY_DEFAULT_QUEUE = 'awx_private_queue'

docs/tasks.md

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ To accomplish this, AWX makes use of a "Task Queue" abstraction.  Task Queues ar
 
 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.
+
 Clustered AWX installations consist of multiple workers spread across every
 node, giving way to high availability and horizontal scaling.