Laravel queue listeners on multiple machines on the same queue

Question

I currently have a multi-server Laravel setup. I have multiple servers that are load balanced and share a database.

Each instance is also running a queue listener. I want to be able to dispatch two types of jobs:

1. A job that is only run once (eg send email, update a model, etc)
2. A job that is run on ALL queue listeners (eg delete a file from the filesystem)

The first I think is quite simple to implement, but unsure how to go about implementing the second one. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can make a queue listener or worker handle specific queues. For example run a queue listener or worker to handle emails queue.

php artisan queue:listen --queue=emails
php artisan queue:work --queue=emails

You can now dispatch jobs to a this queue

dispatch((new Job)->onQueue('emails'));

This can help you setup multiple listeners/workers to handle different queues based on your requirements.