tklx/rabbitmq - AMQP message broker

RabbitMQ is open source message broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The RabbitMQ server is written in the Erlang programming language and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover. Client libraries to interface with the broker are available for all major programming languages.

Features

Based on the super slim tklx/base (Debian GNU/Linux).
RabbitMQ installed directly from Debian.
Uses tini for zombie reaping and signal forwarding.
Includes EXPOSE 4369 5671 5672 15671 15672 25672, so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers.
Configured to forward access and error logs to docker log collector.

Usage

Running the daemon

RabbitMQ node names (which are used to address cluster members) are based on hostnames. For reliable results, supplying an explicit hostname to docker run is recommended.

$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit tklx/rabbitmq

Erlang Cookie

To set a consistent Erlang cookie (useful for clustering and remote rabbitmqctl access), use RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE:

$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit -e RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE='secret cookie here' tklx/rabbitmq

This can then be used from a separate instance to connect:

$ docker run -it --rm --link some-rabbit:my-rabbit -e RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE='secret cookie here' tklx/rabbitmq bash
root@ce19ca4a0929:/# rabbitmqctl -n rabbit@my-rabbit list_users
Listing users ...
guest   [administrator]

Alternatively, one can also use RABBITMQ_NODENAME to make repeated rabbitmqctl invocations simpler:

$ docker run -it --rm --link some-rabbit:my-rabbit -e RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE='secret cookie here' -e RABBITMQ_NODENAME=rabbit@my-rabbit tklx/rabbitmq bash
root@ce19ca4a0929:/# rabbitmqctl list_users
Listing users ...
guest   [administrator]

Management Plugin

The management plugin can be enabled with RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT=1. The default port is 15672 and the default username/password is guest/guest.

$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit -e RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT=1 tklx/rabbitmq

You can access it by visiting http://container-ip:15672 or exposing the port outside the host:

$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit -p 8080:15672 -e RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT=1 tklx/rabbitmq

Setting default user and password

If you wish to change the default username and password of guest / guest, you can do so with the RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER and RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS environmental variables:

$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit -e RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT=1 -e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER=user -e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS=password tklx/rabbitmq

Setting default vhost

If you wish to change the default vhost, you can do so with the RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_VHOST environmental variable:

$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit -e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_VHOST=my_vhost tklx/rabbitmq

Enabling HiPE

See the RabbitMQ "Configuration" for more information about various configuration options.

For enabling the HiPE compiler on startup, set RABBITMQ_HIPE_COMPILE=1. According to the official documentation:

Set to true to precompile parts of RabbitMQ with HiPE, a just-in-time compiler for Erlang. This will increase server throughput at the cost of increased startup time. You might see 20-50% better performance at the cost of a few minutes delay at startup.

It is therefore important to take that startup delay into consideration when configuring health checks, automated clustering etc.

Connecting to the broker

$ docker run --name some-app --link some-rabbit:rabbit -d application-that-uses-rabbitmq

Tips

To disable startup and/or error logs forwarding to the docker log collector, the following environmental variables can be set: NOSTDOUTREDIR NOSTDERRREDIR.

Automated builds

The Docker image is built, tested and pushed by CircleCI from source hosted on GitHub.

Tag: x.y.z refers to a release (recommended).
Tag: latest refers to the master branch.

Status

Currently on major version zero (0.y.z). Per Semantic Versioning, major version zero is for initial development, and should not be considered stable. Anything may change at any time.

Issue Tracker

TKLX uses a central issue tracker on GitHub for reporting and tracking of bugs, issues and feature requests.