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Revision as of 12:00, 21 April 2015

Overview

Zaqar is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service for web developers. It combines the ideas pioneered by Amazon's SQS product with additional semantics to support event broadcasting.

The service features a fully RESTful API, which developers can use to send messages between various components of their SaaS and mobile applications, by using a variety of communication patterns. Underlying this API is an efficient messaging engine designed with scalability and security in mind.

Other OpenStack components can integrate with Zaqar to surface events to end users and to communicate with guest agents that run in the "over-cloud" layer. Cloud operators can leverage Zaqar to provide equivalents of SQS and SNS to their customers.

Key features

Zaqar provides the following key features:

  • Firewall-friendly, HTTP-based API with Keystone support
  • Multi-tenant queues based on Keystone project IDs
  • Support for several common patterns including event broadcasting, task distribution, and point-to-point messaging
  • Component-based architecture with support for custom backends and message filters
  • Efficient reference implementation with an eye toward low latency and high throughput (dependent on backend)
  • Highly-available and horizontally scalable

Project scope

The Zaqar API is data-oriented. That is, it does not provision message brokers and expose those directly to clients. Instead, the API acts as a bridge between the client and one or more backends. A provisioning service for message brokers—however useful—serves a somewhat different market from what Zaqar is targeting today. With that in mind, if users are interested in a broker provisioning service, the community should consider starting a new project to address that need.

Design principles

Zaqar, as with all OpenStack projects, is designed with the following guidelines in mind:

  • Component-based architecture. Quickly add new behaviors
  • Highly available and scalable. Scale to very serious workloads
  • Fault tolerant. Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
  • Recoverable. Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
  • Open standards. Be a reference implementation for a community-driven

The API

At first glance, Zaqar's RESTful API may seem a bit out of the ordinary. Message brokers typically rely on a custom binary protocol and long-lived connections. However, many of today's developers prefer a more web-friendly HTTP API. They value the simplicity and transparency of the protocol, its firewall-friendly nature, and its huge ecosystem of tools, load balancers and proxies. In addition, cloud operators appreciate the scalability aspects of the REST architectural style.

Version 1.0 of the API has been stable for some time. We are working on a 1.1 version with minor changes to remove some of the rough edges in 1.0, and we welcome community feedback. Note that some proposals by the community, such as removing random access to individual messages by ID, will be taken care of in version 2.0 when we will have more freedom to make major changes.

Status

Zaqar is production-ready for small and medium-sized workloads (during kilo the final pieces will be put in place to enable extremely large-scale deployments). The project is in production at Rackspace and other companies are in the process of deploying it in their own clouds. Support for the v1.0 API is available for Python in python-zaqarclient, and for other languages through Rackspace-supported SDKs.

At the close of the Juno cycle, the Zaqar program delivered:

  • Improved developer and operator documentation
  • A polished version of the v1 API, v1.1
  • A number of bug fixes and scaling improvements
  • Queue flavors
  • A new Redis driver as an alternative backend to MongoDB


During Kilo, the team is working on items such as:

  • Push notifications
  • Websocket support
  • Redis pools
  • Misc. scaling and performance improvements
  • Reference deployment architectures
  • Improved CLI support in python-zaqarclient

Resources

The Zaqar team hangs out in #openstack-zaqar on Freenode. Feel free to stop in anytime to chat with us; the crew is always happy to hear your ideas and answer questions. If you run into a bug, please report it using our issue tracker.

Docs

Releases

Talks

  • Alejandro Cabrera. Rackspace Atlanta. Introducing Openstack Marconi. July 17, 2013. Youtube Speaker Deck
  • Flavio Percoco. EuroPython 2013. Marconi: Queuing and Notification Service for Openstack. July 2, 2013. YouTube
  • Kurt Griffiths, Allan Metts. Openstack Summit April 2013. Project Overview: OpenStack Queuing and Notification Service ("Marconi"). April 2013. YouTube
  • Kurt Griffiths, Flavio Percoco, Allan Metts. Openstack Summit November 2013. Openstack Queuing and Notification Service. November 2013. YouTube
  • Yeela Kaplan. EuroPython 2014. OpenStack Queuing and Notification Service ("Marconi"). July 22, 2014. YouTube

Articles

Contributor Guide

Note: The Marconi team is reworking this section of the wiki with tons of updated content, so some pages are missing or incomplete at the moment. If you can't find the information you are looking for, please drop us a line in IRC (#openstack-zaqar) and we'll be happy to help.

Getting Started

API Specs

Design

Quality Engineering

Resources

Community

Third party

Administrivia

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