Use the Azure CLI to create a Service Bus namespace and a queue

This quickstart shows you how to create a Service Bus namespace and a queue using the Azure CLI. It also shows you how to get authorization credentials that a client application can use to send/receive messages to/from the queue.

What are Service Bus queues?

Service Bus queues support a brokered messaging communication model. When you use queues, components of a distributed application don't communicate directly with each other; instead they exchange messages via a queue, which acts as an intermediary (broker). A message producer (sender) hands off a message to the queue and then continues its processing. Asynchronously, a message consumer (receiver) pulls the message from the queue and processes it. The producer doesn't have to wait for a reply from the consumer in order to continue to process and send further messages. Queues offer First In, First Out (FIFO) message delivery to one or more competing consumers. That is, messages are typically received and processed by the receivers in the order in which they were added to the queue, and each message is received and processed by only one message consumer.

Service Bus queues are a general-purpose technology that can be used for a wide variety of scenarios:

• Communication between web and worker roles in a multi-tier Azure application.
• Communication between on-premises apps and Azure-hosted apps in a hybrid solution.
• Communication between components of a distributed application running on-premises in different organizations or departments of an organization.

Using queues enables you to scale your applications more easily, and enable more resiliency to your architecture.

Prerequisites

If you don't have an Azure subscription, you can create a trial subscription before you begin.

You can install Azure CLI and use Azure CLI on your machine.

Provision resources

1. Run the following command to create an Azure resource group. Update the resource group name and the location if you want.

   az login
   az group create --name ContosoRG --location chinaeast
   

2. Run the following command to create a Service Bus messaging namespace.

   az servicebus namespace create --resource-group ContosoRG --name ContosoSBusNS --location chinaeast
   

3. Run the following command to create a queue in the namespace you created in the previous step. In this example, ContosoRG is the resource group you created in the previous step. ContosoSBusNS is the name of the Service Bus namespace created in that resource group.

   az servicebus queue create --resource-group ContosoRG --namespace-name ContosoSBusNS --name ContosoOrdersQueue
   

4. Run the following command to get the primary connection string for the namespace. You use this connection string to connect to the queue and send and receive messages.

   az servicebus namespace authorization-rule keys list --resource-group ContosoRG --namespace-name ContosoSBusNS --name RootManageSharedAccessKey --query primaryConnectionString --output tsv    
   

   Note down the connection string and the queue name. You use them to send and receive messages.

Next steps

In this article, you created a Service Bus namespace and a queue in the namespace. To learn how to send/receive messages to/from the queue, see one of the following quickstarts in the Send and receive messages section.

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