Controlling Docker RabbitMQ via rabbitmqctl

docker_rabbitmqctl.md

Example invocation of a RabbitMQ docker container (use -d instead of -t -i to run in the background):

sudo docker run -t -i --name rabbitmq -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 rabbitmq:3-management

Example of controlling the rabbitmq-server inside the container using rabbitmqctl (also inside the container).

sudo docker exec rabbitmq su rabbitmq -- /usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl status

Hi !
Thx for sharing this 😃

I built a docker based project allowing to run a highly available RabbitMQ cluster with HAProxy.

You can find it there: https://github.com/ypereirareis/docker-rabbitmq-ha-cluster
It could give you more information on Management Plugin.

Bye !

I'm getting the error : Can't open /usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl

Perhaps newer versions changed paths. Using rabbitmq:3-management you can do the following:

docker run -t -i --name rabbitmq -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 rabbitmq:3-management
docker exec rabbitmq rabbitmqctl status

Thanks @joshes, it worked now.

Thanks @joshes

Thanks @joshes, it worked for me as well.