Operating RabbitMQ at large scale comes with it's own set of challenges. This talk will take you on the journey Cisco faced with operating a large (800+ node) environment inside a single RabbitMQ cluster. We will share the pains, lessons learned and best practices to stabilize and improve messaging performance and reliability. This talk includes: OpenStack service configurations related to messaging Kombu driver enhancements Considerations when virtualizing the control plane, and how default net