thanhvo/symfony_messenger

A simple messenger, which produces and consumes messages from SQS queues, is built on top of Symfony Framework.

Symfony Workers

The purpose of this project is to implement Symfony messenger for GFG Seller Center which should be able to produce and consume the messages from Amazon SQS queue. The new Symfony messenger will replace the currently existing Gearman workers framework.

Techonologies

Project is created with:

• PHP version: 8.0
• Symfony messenger version: 5.1
• Serverless: https://www.serverless.com
• Bref: https://bref.sh
• AWS Lambda
• Docker

Installation

Create an AWS SQS queue, an AWS test user who has full permissions on AWS SQS queues. Add the credentials of the user and the information of the queue to .env or env.local script at the home directory of the project.

AWS_KEY=xxx
AWS_SECRET=xxx
AWS_REGION=xxx 
AWS_TOKEN=xxx
AWS_TOPIC_ARN=xxx

Then, update the environment with the following command
php bin/console debug:container --env-vars

Docker deployment

1. Build a docker container for the project
   docker-compose up
2. Log in to the container and go to the home directory

   docker exec -t -i symfony_workers_symfony_messenger_1 /bin/bash  
   cd /home/gfg/symfony_workers  
   

3. Populate the queue with messages
   php bin/console app:message:dispatcher
4. Consume the messages from the SQS queue
   php bin/console messenger:consume

AWS Lambda deployment

We use Serverless Framework and Bref to deploy our Symfony application to AWS Lambda. Serverless provides a painless way to port everything to AWS Lambda. Just run Makefile command in the home directory.
make