One way of reproducing https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-cli/issues/327

demo-rabbitmq-cli-327.bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

docker-compose up --remove-orphans --detach

while ! docker-compose exec rmq1 rabbitmqctl await_online_nodes 1
do
  sleep 1
done

echo "SYSTEM HOSTNAME"
docker-compose exec rmq1 hostname

echo "INET_DB HOSTNAME"
docker-compose exec rmq1 rabbitmqctl eval 'inet_db:gethostname().'

echo "NODE"
docker-compose exec rmq1 rabbitmqctl eval 'node().'


if docker-compose exec rmq1 rabbitmqctl -n rabbit@rmq2 shutdown --wait
then
  echo "ERROR: expecting rabbitmqctl shutdown --wait against remote node to fail, but it didn't"
  exit 1
fi

docker-compose kill && docker system prune

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.7"

services:
  rmq1:
    image: rabbitmq:3.7
    hostname: localhost
    environment:
      RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE: &cookie shutdown
      RABBITMQ_NODENAME: rabbit@rmq1
    volumes:
      - ./rabbitmq.conf:/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf:ro
      - /Users/gerhard/github.com/rabbitmq/3.7/deps/rabbitmq_server_release/PACKAGES/rabbitmq_server-3.7.8+rc.3.6.g3d679fa/escript:/opt/rabbitmq/escript:ro
  rmq2:
    image: rabbitmq:3.7
    hostname: localhost
    environment:
      RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE: *cookie
      RABBITMQ_NODENAME: rabbit@rmq2
    volumes:
      - ./rabbitmq.conf:/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf:ro
      - /Users/gerhard/github.com/rabbitmq/3.7/deps/rabbitmq_server_release/PACKAGES/rabbitmq_server-3.7.8+rc.3.6.g3d679fa/escript:/opt/rabbitmq/escript:ro

rabbitmq.conf

cluster_formation.peer_discovery_backend = rabbit_peer_discovery_classic_config
cluster_formation.classic_config.nodes.1 = rabbit@rmq1
cluster_formation.classic_config.nodes.2 = rabbit@rmq2