RabbitMQ

Reliable message broker for handling queues, background jobs, and distributed messaging. Industry-standard AMQP protocol.

Default Configuration

Image: rabbitmq:4-management-alpine
Container: damp-rabbitmq
Ports:
  - 5672:5672   # AMQP
  - 15672:15672 # Management UI
Network: devnet
Volume: damp-rabbitmq:/var/lib/rabbitmq

Environment Variables

Variable	Value	Description
`RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER`	`rabbitmq`	Admin username
`RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS`	`rabbitmq`	Admin password

Connection Information

AMQP Protocol

From Docker Containers:

amqp://rabbitmq:rabbitmq@damp-rabbitmq:5672

From Host Machine:

amqp://rabbitmq:rabbitmq@localhost:5672

Management Console

http://localhost:15672

Login:

Username: rabbitmq
Password: rabbitmq

Laravel Queue Configuration

Install AMQP Extension

# In devcontainer
pecl install amqp

Install Laravel Package

composer require vladimir-yuldashev/laravel-queue-rabbitmq

Configure .env

QUEUE_CONNECTION=rabbitmq

RABBITMQ_HOST=damp-rabbitmq
RABBITMQ_PORT=5672
RABBITMQ_USER=rabbitmq
RABBITMQ_PASSWORD=rabbitmq
RABBITMQ_VHOST=/
RABBITMQ_QUEUE=default

Dispatch Jobs

use App\Jobs\ProcessOrder;

// Dispatch to queue
ProcessOrder::dispatch($order);

// Run queue worker
php artisan queue:work rabbitmq

Management Console Features

📊 Overview - Connections, channels, queues
📝 Queues - Create, view, purge queues
🔄 Exchanges - Routing configuration
👥 Connections - Active connections
📈 Metrics - Message rates, memory usage

Common Operations

Create Queue

# Via console at http://localhost:15672
# Or via PHP:

use PhpAmqpLib\Connection\AMQPStreamConnection;
use PhpAmqpLib\Message\AMQPMessage;

$connection = new AMQPStreamConnection(
    'damp-rabbitmq', 5672, 'rabbitmq', 'rabbitmq'
);
$channel = $connection->channel();

$channel->queue_declare('task_queue', false, true, false, false);

$msg = new AMQPMessage('Hello World!');
$channel->basic_publish($msg, '', 'task_queue');

Use Cases

⏰ Background Jobs - Email sending, report generation
🔄 Task Distribution - Load balancing across workers
📨 Event Broadcasting - Pub/sub messaging
🔗 Microservices - Service-to-service communication
📊 Analytics - Event tracking and processing

Persistent Queues

Messages survive container restarts - jobs are safe in the damp-rabbitmq volume!

Dead Letter Exchanges

Configure failed job handling via dead letter exchanges for robust error handling!

Monitoring

Access real-time metrics:

http://localhost:15672/#/

View:

Message rates (publish/deliver)
Queue depths
Consumer count
Memory usage

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