lshannon/rabbit-setup

Setting up Rabbit locally and in PCF for Cloud Native Development

Rabbit MQ Local and PCF Set Up

This repository covers setting up Rabbit MQ both locally and in Pivotal Web Services (PWS) as a message broker for Event Driven Micro Service Architectures.

Setting Up RabbitMQ Locally (Mac)

To build the 'simple-message-producer' locally you will need a RabbitMQ running locally, otherwise the Test will not pass as the RabbitTemplate will not be able to create a ConnectionFacactory. With a Mac installing Rabbit can be done using Brew:

brew install rabbitmq

...

brew services start rabbitmq

After the installation, admin console can be found here:

http://127.0.0.1:15672/

(guest/guest)

Setting Up RabbitMQ Locally (Docker Compose)

This requires Docker Compose to be installed on your Local system:

https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Once Docker Composed is installed, you can get the Docker Compose file for Rabbit MQ into your local project:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-rabbitmq/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml

To start the image up, run the follow command:

docker-compose up -d

To connect to the Rabbit MQ running in the docker image from Spring Boot, the following can be added to the application.yml file:

services:
 rabbitmq:
  image: rabbitmq:3.6.6-management
  container_name: rabbitmq
  ports:
    - "15672:15672"
    - "5672:5672"

Setting Up RabbitMQ on PWS

Simply create a free instance of the CloudAMQP broker from the Marketplace:

cf create-service cloudamqp tiger scdf-rabbitmq-queue

Part of the Service in creating the Rabbit MQ Service is to create the manager.

This is a useful interface to refer too. Here you can see where messages are going and what Exchanges and Queues are created.