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Hands-On Introduction to Message Queuing with RabbitMQ
241 students

Hands-On Introduction to Message Queuing with RabbitMQ

Hands-on guide to RabbitMQ fundamentals using Docker, Management UI and CLI
Created byLukasz Kallas
Last updated 5/2026
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand what RabbitMQ is and when to use message brokers in your architecture
  • Run and manage RabbitMQ
  • Create and manage queues, exchanges, and bindings
  • Publish and consume messages
  • Implement dead letter queues for error handling

Course content

3 sections • 16 lectures • 2h 1m total length

  • Welcome!2:36

    Explore practical basics of RabbitMQ with Docker, using the management UI and command line tools to create queues, publish and consume messages, and configure exchanges, durability, acknowledgements, and dead-letter queues.

  • Join Our Community0:04
  • What is RabbitMQ & Why to Use it8:23

    Use RabbitMQ as a message broker that decouples producers and consumers through asynchronous messaging. It offers reliability, persistence, scalability, and load balancing for asynchronous background tasks in microservices.

  • Setup11:43

    Run RabbitMQ with Docker, map ports 5672 and 15672, use the rabbitmq3-management image, and access the management UI with guest credentials.

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of command line/terminal usage
  • No programming experience required
  • No prior RabbitMQ or message broker experience required
  • No prior Docker experience required

Description

This hands-on course provides a practical introduction to message queuing using RabbitMQ, the most widely deployed open-source message broker.

You won’t waste time on unnecessary theory. Instead, you’ll learn by doing, working directly with RabbitMQ using its Management UI and command-line tools.

We’ll start by running RabbitMQ in Docker containers, giving you a quick and clean setup without complex installations. From there, we will explore how message queuing works in practice by creating queues, publishing messages, and consuming them in real time.

As we progress through this course, we will dive deeper into core RabbitMQ concepts such as exchanges, routing patterns, and message flow. Up to some more advanced features like message durability, acknowledgments, and dead letter queues.

Everything is done using the RabbitMQ Management UI and the rabbitmqadmin CLI tool. In this course we won’t write application code, which allows to fully focus on understanding how the system behaves and how to manage it effectively. This makes the course also programming language agnostic.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand how message brokers work, when to use them in modern architectures, and how to confidently operate RabbitMQ in real-world scenarios.

This course is a great fit if you are:

  • A developer exploring asynchronous communication and event-driven systems

  • A DevOps engineer working with distributed infrastructure

  • A system architect designing scalable and decoupled applications

If you want a clear, practical, and hands-on introduction to message queuing with RabbitMQ, this course is for you.

Who this course is for:

  • Developers, DevOps engineers, system administrators, and architects who want hands-on experience with message brokers and asynchronous messaging patterns using UI and CLI tools

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