Rabbitmq cluster set-up using Docker

Build

• git clone [email protected]:cbirajdar/rabbitmq-docker.git
• Run docker pull cbirajdar/rabbitmq to pull the image from DockerHub or Run docker build -t cbirajdar/rabbitmq . in the root directory
  • If you don't have docker installed, follow the guide here - https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/
• Make sure that the docker image is pulled/built successfully
  • Run docker images to verify that the built images shows up in the local repository

Run

You can run the cluster in two ways:

• Using docker-compose
  • cd cluster && docker-compose up -d
• Using docker run
  • docker run -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 --hostname rabbitmq1 --name rabbitmq1 cbirajdar/rabbitmq
  • docker run -p 5673:5672 -p 15673:15672 -e JOIN_CLUSTER=rabbitmq1 --hostname rabbitmq2 --name rabbitmq2 --link rabbitmq1 cbirajdar/rabbitmq
  • docker run -p 5674:5672 -p 15674:15672 -e JOIN_CLUSTER=rabbitmq1 --hostname rabbitmq3 --name rabbitmq3 --link rabbitmq1 --link rabbitmq2 cbirajdar/rabbitmq

Verify

Visit the following links in the browser to make sure rabbitmq admin console is running.

• Get the docker machine ip - echo $DOCKER_HOST | awk -v FS="(tcp://|:)" '{print $2}'
• http://$docker_ip:15672/
• http://$docker_ip:15673/
• http://$docker_ip:15674/

Running simple tests against the cluster

• https://github.com/cbirajdar/rabbitmq-clients
• https://github.com/cbirajdar/messaging-providers-benchmark

Stop and Destroy nodes

• Stop and rm containers
  • docker stop $(docker ps -f "name=rabbitmq*" -a -q)
  • docker rm $(docker ps -f "name=rabbitmq*" -a -q)
• Remove docker image
  • docker rmi $(IMAGE_ID)