Go has a module that you can use to integrate rabbitmq with your system: github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go. The examples below are from rabbitmq.com. Be sure that you have a running rabbitmq instance on your local machine, either as a Docker container or running process on your machine.
The example below is a basic publishing and consuming of a message. When a sender publishes a message to a queue, the message is available from a receiver to consume. Note that the example uses the default exchange "".
Sample run:
➜ go run .
2026/01/11 20:22:06 [x] Sent Hello World!
➜ go run ./receiver/
2026/01/11 20:22:13 [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C
2026/01/11 20:22:13 Received a message: Hello World!sender.go
func failOnError(err error, msg string) {
if err != nil {
log.Panicf("%s: %s", msg, err)
}
}
func main() {
// connects to your rabbitmq instance
conn, err := amqp.Dial("amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/")
failOnError(err, "Failed to connect to RabbitMQ")
defer conn.Close()
ch, err := conn.Channel()
failOnError(err, "Failed to open a channel")
defer ch.Close()
// creates or returns the queue
// same with: `rabbitmqadmin declare queue`
q, err := ch.QueueDeclare(
"hello", // name
false, // durable
false, // delete when unused
false, // exclusive
false, // no-wait
nil, // arguments
)
failOnError(err, "Failed to declare a queue")
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
defer cancel()
// publishes a message to the queue
// same with: `rabbitmqadmin publish message`
// note here that it's using the default exchange with empty value in the first argument
body := "Hello World!"
err = ch.PublishWithContext(ctx,
"", // exchange
q.Name, // routing key
false, // mandatory
false, // immediate
amqp.Publishing{
ContentType: "text/plain",
Body: []byte(body),
})
failOnError(err, "Failed to publish a message")
log.Printf(" [x] Sent %s\n", body)
}
receiver.go
func failOnError(err error, msg string) {
if err != nil {
log.Panicf("%s: %s", msg, err)
}
}
func main() {
conn, err := amqp.Dial("amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/")
failOnError(err, "Failed to connect to RabbitMQ")
defer conn.Close()
ch, err := conn.Channel()
failOnError(err, "Failed to open a channel")
defer ch.Close()
// creates or declares a queue
q, err := ch.QueueDeclare(
"hello", // name
false, // durable
false, // delete when unused
false, // exclusive
false, // no-wait
nil, // arguments
)
failOnError(err, "Failed to declare a queue")
// returns a channel for the messages
msgs, err := ch.Consume(
q.Name, // queue
"", // consumer
true, // auto-ack
false, // exclusive
false, // no-local
false, // no-wait
nil, // args
)
failOnError(err, "Failed to register a consumer")
var forever chan struct{}
go func() {
for d := range msgs {
log.Printf("Received a message: %s", d.Body)
}
}()
log.Printf(" [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C")
<-forever
}Reference