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PHP Laravel 5 Queue Driver package to support Microsoft Azure Storage Queues

Prerequisites

• PHP 7+ for Laravel 5.5+
• Laravel 5.5 (not tested on previous versions)
• Microsoft Azure Storage account and API key
• Queue container created through Azure Portal or via Azure CLI / PowerShell

Installation

Install using composer

You can find this library on Packagist.

Require this package in your composer.json. The version numbers will follow Laravel.

Laravel 5.5.x

"akayaman/azure-queue-laravel": "5.5.*"
composer require akayaman/azure-queue-laravel:5.5.*

Configuration

Add Provider

If you are not using Laravel auto package discovery, add the ServiceProvider to your providers array in config/app.php:

'Squigg\AzureQueueLaravel\AzureQueueServiceProvider',

Add Azure queue configuration

Add the following to the connections array in config/queue.php, and fill out your own connection data from the Azure Management portal:

'azure' => [
    'driver'        => 'azure',                         // Leave this as-is
    'protocol'      => 'https',                         // https or http
    'accountname'   => env('AZURE_QUEUE_STORAGE_NAME'), // Azure storage account name
    'key'           => env('AZURE_QUEUE_KEY'),          // Access key for storage account
    'queue'         => env('AZURE_QUEUE_NAME'),         // Queue container name
    'endpoint'      => env('AZURE_QUEUE_ENDPOINT'),     // Queue endpoint
    'timeout'       => 60                               // Timeout (seconds) before a job is released back to the queue
],

Add environment variables into your .env file to set the above configuration parameters if you prefer:

AZURE_QUEUE_STORAGE_NAME=xxx
AZURE_QUEUE_KEY=xxx
AZURE_QUEUE_NAME=xxx
AZURE_QUEUE_ENDPOINT=xxx

Set the default Laravel queue

Update the default queue used by Laravel by setting the QUEUE_DRIVER value in your .env file to azure.

QUEUE_DRIVER=azure

Usage

Use the normal Laravel Queue functionality as per the documentation.

Remember to update the default queue by setting the QUEUE_DRIVER value in your .env file to azure.

License

Released under the MIT License. Based on Alex Bouma's Laravel 4 package, updated for Laravel 5.