Introduction

These step assume Ubuntu is installed. I am currently using Ubuntu 17.04.

Based on: Install RabbitMQ server on Ubuntu 16.04 & 14.04

Step 1 - 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
sudo apt-get install erlang erlang-nox

Step 2 - Install RabbitMQ Server

Install the RabbitMQ 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 -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

Note: The Ubuntu (apt-get) repository does not usually have the latest packages (RabbitMQ). That is why the RabbitMQ repository is installed (and used).

Step 3 - Manage RabbitMQ Server

sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server
sudo systemctl stop rabbitmq-server

sudo rabbitmqctl list_queues
sudo rabbitmqctl list_exchanges
sudo rabbitmqctl list_bindings
sudo rabbitmqctl list_users
sudo rabbitmqctl list_permissions

how to use systemctl
rabbitmqctl manual page

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

sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

sudo ufw status

sudo ufw allow 15672

sudo ufw status verbose

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