RabbitMQ is a message queue system built on top of AMQP.

RabbitMQ on MacOS

See official documentation

Recommended best practice is to install with brew:

brew install rabbitmq

Config file can then be found at:

/opt/homebrew/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf

The service can be started with:

# starts a local RabbitMQ node
brew services start rabbitmq
# highly recommended: enable all feature flags on the running node
/opt/homebrew/sbin/rabbitmqctl enable_feature_flag all