RabbitMQ is publish-subscribe tool which is effectively used in microservices for their inter communications. RabbitMQ is an open-source message-broker software that originally implemented the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol and has since been extended with a plug-in architecture to support Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport, and other protocols.
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1. How to install RabbitMQ in Docker Container ?
1.1 RabbitMQ – Docker pull:
docker pull rabbitmq
1.2 RabbiMQ – Docker Run:
sudo docker run --restart=always -e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER='rabbitadmin' -e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS='rabbitpass' -d --name ngrabbitmq -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 rabbitmq:3-management
- rabbitadmin is username and rabbitpass is rabbitmq password, the same should be configured wherever you need to connect to rabbitmq.
- ngrabbitmq is the docker container name, you can debug ngrabbitmq container using
sudo docker logs ngrabbitmq
Read other useful docker comments here.
2. RabbitMQ Docker Commands:
2.1 Start Command
rabbitmqctl start
2.2 Stop Command
rabbitmqctl stop
2.3 Create a new user
rabbitmqctl add_user ngdevuser ngdevpass
ngdevuser – username and ngdevpass – password
2.4 Deleting an existing user
rabbitmqctl delete_user ngdevuser
this removes ngdevuser from rabbitmq.
2.5 Change the user password
rabbitmqctl change_password ngdevuser ngnewpass
this sets the password for ngdevuser from ngdevpass to ngnewpass
2.6 Password authentication/Login authentication command
rabbitmqctl authenticate_user ngdevuser ngnewpass
this command test whether the userid and password is correct or not.
2.7 Adding / Setting administrator access to user
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags ngdevuser administrator
2.8 Resetting / clearing administor access to user
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags ngdevuser
this resets the access to ngdevuser.
2.9 List down the users
rabbitmqctl list_users
2.9 List the queues:
rabbitmqctl list_queues
2.10 List the exchanges
rabbitmqctl list_exchanges
2.11 List the bindings
rabbitmqctl list_bindings
2.12 List the consumers
rabbitmqctl list_consumers
3. How to start rabbitmq in windows ?
Rabbitmq can be started as service by the following ways,
Generally rabbitmq is installed in the below paths,
C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.7.17\sbin
rabbitmqctl stop
rabbitmq-server -detached
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
Start and stop sometimes can be done using,
rabbitmqctl.bat start (or) rabbitmq-service.bat start