Cloud Native Programming with Golang

RabbitMQ quickstart with Docker

Before building our publish/subscribe architecture, you will need to set up a running RabbitMQ message broker in your development environment. The easiest way to get started with RabbitMQ is by using the official Docker images.

For this example, we will assume that you have a working Docker installation on your local machine. Take a look at the official installation instructions to learn how you can install Docker on your operating system at: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation.

You can start a new RabbitMQ broker using the following command on your command line:

$ docker run --detach \ 
    --name rabbitmq \ 
    -p 5672:5672 \ 
    -p 15672:15672 \ 
    rabbitmq:3-management 

The preceding command will create a new container ...