For Compose basics, see the Docker Compose overview. This post covers a RabbitMQ broker with the management UI.

Prerequisites

• Docker Compose installed

Configuration

The following configuration spins up the RabbitMQ container with the management UI tool.

The connection string for the RabbitMQ broker with local virtual host is amqp://localhost:5672/local.

RabbitMQ management UI is available at the http://localhost:15672 link. Default credentials are guest as username and guest as password.

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  rabbitmq:
    image: rabbitmq:3-management
    ports:
      - 5672:5672
      - 15672:15672
    environment:
      - RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_VHOST=local
    volumes:
      - 'rabbitmq_data:/data'
volumes:
  rabbitmq_data:

Run the following command to spin up the container.

docker compose up

Demo

Docker Compose files and setup scripts for this post live in the rabbitmq-docker-compose folder. Get access via code demos.