The following document attempts to explain the differences a user is likely to encounter between the commercial releases of RabbitMQ sold historically by VMware and then Pivotal, and the open source release. It is our intent that the commercial release becomes the sole release, and is distributed with flexible licensing that allows either free use of the product under its open source licenses, or paid commercial use of the same software artifacts but with access to commercial support.
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Homebrew is the 'missing package manager' for Mac OS X. Pivotal provides Homebrew formulas for developers who want to install and play with our commercial software on their development machines, and is not intended for commercial use. A Generic Unix version distributed as a tar file and runnable under Mac OS X, Solaris and other Unix-derived platforms (though possibly with some effort) Key Differences Between Past Commercial Versions and Open Source Releases Key differences between the open source versions and the VMware/Pivotal commercial releases are found in.
Motivation:
During the years that RabbitMQ was sponsored first by VMware (2010–2013) and subsequently by Pivotal (2013–present), the product has been distributed in multiple forms on multiple platforms.
Commercial versions of the RabbitMQ broker were distributed as:
- RPMs for use on RedHat and CentOS
- Debian packages for use on Ubuntu
- An NSIS-based self installing EXE for Windows
- A Generic Unix version distributed as a tar file and runnable under Mac OS X, Solaris and other Unix-derived platforms (though possibly with some effort)
Key Differences Between Past Commercial Versions and Open Source Releases
Key differences between the open source versions and the VMware/Pivotal commercial releases are found in:
- What the distributed artifacts (RPMs, .deb's, EXEs) are called
- Where the software resides on a host system after installation
- What users/groups are created on the host system to run the software
How to Migrate from Older Commercial Releases to Newer Open Source Releases
Customers migrating from a legacy commercial release to commercial use of future open source releases are advised to: Swipey rogue mac os.
- Set aside or back up any data or configurations for your system you might have, e.g. exporting configuration from the RabbitMQ management UI.
- Drain your legacy commercial system so that any active messaging work being performed on it is completed.
- Uninstall the old commercial release using the usual package removal method for your distribution (e.g. removing RPMs with the ‘rpm' command, removing the Debian install with the 'dpkg' command, removing the Windows release using Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel, etc.).
- Install the new open source release for your platform using the appropriate package and method for your platform.
Specific Differences by Platform Between Commercial and Open Source Releases
The following sections enumerate differences between the open source and commercial releases on various platforms. The list is intended to be useful for finding one's way around and install, knowing where configuration, logs, scripts and binaries reside, etc.
One intended benefit of the streamlining of our releases is that going forward open source documentation will be authoritative for both open source and commercial users and that discrepancies between the platforms will vanish. As a result, documentation found on the rabbitmq.com website, discussion forums and other public sources should be more consistent and less misleading as there will no longer be commercial deviations incompatible with such materials.
The JMS Topic Exchange
For some years a RabbitMQ plugin called rabbitmq_jms_topic_exchange was available only with commercial RabbitMQ releases. The plugin has now been open sourced and comes with all open source RabbitMQ releases. It has changed relatively little in recent users, so commercial users converting to a contemporary open source release should notice little difference.
Open Source Rabbit Install Locations
The page at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html covers the default locations for files, along with some related information, for open source RabbitMQ releases. Most of its content has been stable for years and it can generally be considered authoritative.
The following sections enumerate differences between the open source and commercial releases on various platforms. The list is intended to be useful for finding one's way around and install, knowing where configuration, logs, scripts and binaries reside, etc.
One intended benefit of the streamlining of our releases is that going forward open source documentation will be authoritative for both open source and commercial users and that discrepancies between the platforms will vanish. As a result, documentation found on the rabbitmq.com website, discussion forums and other public sources should be more consistent and less misleading as there will no longer be commercial deviations incompatible with such materials.
The JMS Topic Exchange
For some years a RabbitMQ plugin called rabbitmq_jms_topic_exchange was available only with commercial RabbitMQ releases. The plugin has now been open sourced and comes with all open source RabbitMQ releases. It has changed relatively little in recent users, so commercial users converting to a contemporary open source release should notice little difference.
Open Source Rabbit Install Locations
The page at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html covers the default locations for files, along with some related information, for open source RabbitMQ releases. Most of its content has been stable for years and it can generally be considered authoritative.
RPM differences
The commercial RPM has, post version 3.2.2, been called:
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pivotal-rabbitmq-server-VERSION.el6.noarch.rpmpivotal-rabbitmq-server-VERSION.el7.noarch.rpm
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depending on whether one is using RHEL/CentOS 6 or 7 platform.
Commercial releases of RabbitMQ older than version 3.2.2 follow the naming convention:
vfabric-rabbitmq-server-VERSION.i686.rpmvfabric-rabbitmq-server-VERSION.x86_64.rpm
The architecture specificity is due to the present of native code components that integrated with the VMware vSphere licensing services.
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Commercial RabbitMQ RPM releases installed the broker to the /opt/pivotal directory. Open source releases install as per the documentation at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html Populous ii: trials of the olympian gods mac os.
Commercial releases also create a Linux user named 'rabbitmq' who belongs to the group 'pivotal'. On open source RPM distributions the rabbitmq user belongs to group rabbitmq.
Debian differences
A commercial Debian package was last offered for RabbitMQ 3.5.6. The package names for commercial Debian distributions have the format:
rabbitmq-server_VERSION_amd64.deb
Commercial RabbitMQ Debian releases installed the broker to the /opt/pivotal directory. Open source releases install as per the documentation at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html
Commercial releases also create a Linux user named 'rabbitmq' who belongs to the group 'pivotal'. On open source Debian distributions the rabbitmq user belongs to group rabbitmq.
Windows differences
The commercial distributions of RabbitMQ for Windows have filenames of the form:
pivotal-rabbitmq-server-VERSION.exe
Open source releases lack the 'pivotal-' prefix.
Commercial releases of RabbitMQ on Windows use an NSIS-based self installing EXE distributable that is relatively easy to work with. Very old versions of the product use native components to interact with the VMware vSphere licensing server, similar to the situation for the Linux RPM distributions. Beyond that difference, the Windows guidance at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html generally holds true.
Generic Unix differences
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pivotal-rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-VERSION.tar.xz
The generic Unix distribution is comparatively barebones and runs from wherever the user has unpacked and placed the TAR file as per the description at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html
