Spawn multiple queue workers

[diogogpinto]

Hello everyone,

I'm using serversideup/php 8.3 with nginx and fpm, following the official recommendations to run Laravel Queues (https://serversideup.net/open-source/docker-php/docs/laravel/laravel-queue).

I was wondering what's the best way to spawn/run multiple queue workers? Should I just add new entries to docker-compose (like queue-1, queue-2) or create replicas?

I'm wondering, performance wise, what would be the best fit and the recommended approach.

Thank you so much, and thank you to the devs for the awesome work!

[jaydrogers]

I haven't tested this myself, but scaling the service is definitely the way you want to go: https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/scale-service/

It gets complicated when you go down that path (especially as you add many nodes). Be sure you have your services on the hosts that make sense to run your job and the volumes are properly shared.

Hope this helps!