Install RabbitMQ message broker to queue and exchange messages.
Default RabbitMQ ports
By default, RabbitMQ will use the following TCP ports: 5672 for AMQP protocol, 15672 for management interface and 25672 for clustering.
Prerequisites
Install gnupg2, apt-transport-https and curl.
$ sudo apt install gnupg2 apt-transport-https curl
Installation
Import repository key.
$ curl https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/Keys/rabbitmq-release-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -
Define RabbitMQ and Erlang repositories.
$ echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian $(lsb_release -c -s) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list $ echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq-erlang/debian $(lsb_release -c -s) erlang-22.x" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list deb https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian buster main deb https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq-erlang/debian buster erlang-22.x
Update package index.
$ sudo apt update
Install the RabbitMQ server.
$ sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
Open Files Limit
Ensure that Open Files Limit is increased.
$ systemctl cat rabbitmq-server # /lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service [Unit] Description=RabbitMQ Messaging Server After=network.target epmd@0.0.0.0.socket Wants=network.target epmd@0.0.0.0.socket [Service] Type=notify User=rabbitmq Group=rabbitmq UMask=0027 NotifyAccess=all TimeoutStartSec=3600 LimitNOFILE=65536 SyslogIdentifier=rabbitmq Restart=on-failure RestartSec=10 WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/rabbitmq ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rabbitmq-server ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl stop [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Edit and restart service if you need to increase Open Files Limit.
$ sudo systemctl edit --full rabbitmq-server $ sudo systemctl restart rabbitmq-server
Management plugin
Display available plugins.
$ sudo rabbitmq-plugins list Configured: E = explicitly enabled; e = implicitly enabled | Status: * = running on rabbit@buster |/ [ ] rabbitmq_amqp1_0 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_cache 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_http 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_consistent_hash_exchange 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_event_exchange 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_federation 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_federation_management 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_jms_topic_exchange 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_management 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_management_agent 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_mqtt 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_peer_discovery_aws 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_peer_discovery_common 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_peer_discovery_consul 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_peer_discovery_etcd 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_peer_discovery_k8s 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_random_exchange 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_recent_history_exchange 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_sharding 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_shovel 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_shovel_management 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_stomp 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_top 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_tracing 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_trust_store 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_web_dispatch 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_web_mqtt 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_web_mqtt_examples 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_web_stomp 3.7.8 [ ] rabbitmq_web_stomp_examples 3.7.8
Enable management plugin.
$ sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management The following plugins have been configured: rabbitmq_management rabbitmq_management_agent rabbitmq_web_dispatch Applying plugin configuration to rabbit@buster... The following plugins have been enabled: rabbitmq_management rabbitmq_management_agent rabbitmq_web_dispatch started 3 plugins.
$ sudo rabbitmq-plugins -q list --enabled Configured: E = explicitly enabled; e = implicitly enabled | Status: * = running on rabbit@buster |/ [E*] rabbitmq_management 3.7.8
Management user
Create admin with password.
Alter these settings, do not use the default password.
$ sudo rabbitmqctl add_user admin password Adding user "admin" ...
Set admin as an administrator.
$ sudo rabbitmqctl set_user_tags admin administrator Setting tags for user "admin" to [administrator] ...
Set admin permissions for default virtual host.
$ sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / admin ".*" ".*" ".*"
Delete guest user.
$ sudo rabbitmqctl delete_user guest Deleting user "guest" ..
Status
Check service status.
$ sudo rabbitmqctl status
Status of node rabbit@buster ...
[{pid,29114},
{running_applications,
[{rabbitmq_management,"RabbitMQ Management Console","3.7.8"},
{rabbitmq_web_dispatch,"RabbitMQ Web Dispatcher","3.7.8"},
{rabbitmq_management_agent,"RabbitMQ Management Agent","3.7.8"},
{rabbit,"RabbitMQ","3.7.8"},
{amqp_client,"RabbitMQ AMQP Client","3.7.8"},
{rabbit_common,
"Modules shared by rabbitmq-server and rabbitmq-erlang-client",
"3.7.8"},
{inets,"INETS CXC 138 49","7.0.9"},
{cowboy,"Small, fast, modern HTTP server.","2.2.2"},
{ranch_proxy_protocol,"Ranch Proxy Protocol Transport","1.5.0"},
{ranch,"Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.","1.5.0"},
{ssl,"Erlang/OTP SSL application","9.3.5"},
{public_key,"Public key infrastructure","1.6.7"},
{asn1,"The Erlang ASN1 compiler version 5.0.9","5.0.9"},
{os_mon,"CPO CXC 138 46","2.5"},
{xmerl,"XML parser","1.3.21"},
{recon,"Diagnostic tools for production use","2.3.2"},
{mnesia,"MNESIA CXC 138 12","4.16"},
{jsx,"a streaming, evented json parsing toolkit","2.8.2"},
{cowlib,"Support library for manipulating Web protocols.","2.1.0"},
{crypto,"CRYPTO","4.5.1"},
{lager,"Erlang logging framework","3.6.3"},
{goldrush,"Erlang event stream processor","0.1.9"},
{compiler,"ERTS CXC 138 10","7.4.4"},
{syntax_tools,"Syntax tools","2.2"},
{syslog,"An RFC 3164 and RFC 5424 compliant logging framework.","3.4.3"},
{sasl,"SASL CXC 138 11","3.4"},
{stdlib,"ERTS CXC 138 10","3.9.2"},
{kernel,"ERTS CXC 138 10","6.4.1"}]},
{os,{unix,linux}},
{erlang_version,
"Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.4.4] [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [ds:2:2:10] [async-threads:64]\n"},
{memory,
[{connection_readers,0},
{connection_writers,0},
{connection_channels,0},
{connection_other,2732},
{queue_procs,0},
{queue_slave_procs,0},
{plugins,1455092},
{other_proc,27694500},
{metrics,195700},
{mgmt_db,179272},
{mnesia,76112},
{other_ets,2767160},
{binary,211528},
{msg_index,29776},
{code,26855842},
{atom,1180881},
{other_system,10929565},
{allocated_unused,13401552},
{reserved_unallocated,0},
{strategy,rss},
{total,[{erlang,71578160},{rss,79216640},{allocated,84979712}]}]},
{alarms,[]},
{listeners,[{clustering,25672,"::"},{amqp,5672,"::"},{http,15672,"::"}]},
{vm_memory_calculation_strategy,rss},
{vm_memory_high_watermark,0.4},
{vm_memory_limit,149830041},
{disk_free_limit,50000000},
{disk_free,7488921600},
{file_descriptors,
[{total_limit,65431},
{total_used,2},
{sockets_limit,58885},
{sockets_used,0}]},
{processes,[{limit,1048576},{used,383}]},
{run_queue,1},
{uptime,16396},
{kernel,{net_ticktime,60}}]