Install RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 16.06

install-rabbitmq-ubuntu1604.md

Install RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 16.04

Install Erlang

wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y erlang erlang-nox

Add RabbitMQ apt repository

echo 'deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list
wget -O- https://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-release-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Update the package list

sudo apt-get update -y

Install RabbitMQ

sudo apt-get install -y rabbitmq-server

Start RabbitMQ

sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server

Check RabbitMQ status

sudo systemctl status rabbitmq-server

Enable RabbitMQ service so it starts on boot

sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server

Setup RabbitMQ Web Management Console

sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Single RabbitMQ Instances

Create Admin User in RabbitMQ

sudo rabbitmqctl add_user admin password 
sudo rabbitmqctl set_user_tags admin administrator
sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / admin ".*" ".*" ".*"

Clustered RabbitMQ Instances

Setup Cluster On The Master Node

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/fernandoaleman/05cbf15e0e58f8de7a29a21b24f9debb/raw/55efa7b36c245a9f6ffa3bcd2382c078cce0e9a2/rabbitmq-cluster.sh
chmod +x rabbitmq-cluster.sh
./rabbitmq-cluster.sh

Enable SSL

Enable RabbitMQ and Management SSL

[
 {rabbit, [
 {ssl_listeners, [5671]},
 {ssl_options, [{cacertfile,"/path/to/cacertfile"},
 {certfile,"/path/to/certfile"},
 {keyfile,"/path/to/keyfile"},
 {verify,verify_peer},
 {fail_if_no_peer_cert,true}]}
 ]},
 {rabbitmq_management, [
 {listener, [{port, 15671},
 {ssl, true},
 {ssl_opts, [{cacertfile, "/path/to/cacertfile"},
             {certfile,   "/path/to/certfile"},
             {keyfile,    "/path/to/keyfile"}]}
            ]
 }
 ]}
].

Running : Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial)

Installing Erlang and then installing RabbitMQ results in Erlang-EPMD errors :
https://serverfault.com/questions/968042/epmd-reports-node-rabbit-not-running-at-all

But just skipping the first step of Installing Erlang and letting RabbitMQ install alone (auto installing dependencies), runs gracefully.

But thanks for the wonderful snippets!

This works too for Ubuntu 20.04. Thanks

./rabbitmq-cluster.sh
when I run this command it asks for server's host name and IP address then what to write there ?

Setup RabbitMQ Master

Enter the master server's hostname : admin
[admin] Setting up master
ssh: Could not resolve hostname admin: Temporary failure in name resolution
Master's Erlang Cookie : ''
Enter the master server's IP as seen from the slaves (Use a local IP if available) : 127.0.0.1
Setup RabbitMQ Slaves