rabbitmq

Add repos and packages for RabbitMQ. Configure listen addresses, plugins, users, and vhosts.

Requirements

An installed Ubuntu server.

Role Variables

Ubuntu distro, e.g., 'xenial'

rabbitmq_distribution: '{{ ansible_distribution_release }}'

Apt packages for rabbitmq server install

rabbitmq_packages:
  - erlang
  - rabbitmq-server

Rabbitmq plugins

rabbitmq_plugins:
  - rabbitmq_management
  - rabbitmq_tracing
  - rabbitmq_federation

An admin user with access to all vhosts

rabbitmq_admin_user:
  username: admin
  password: admin

Users with policymaker access to their vhost

rabbitmq_users:
  - username: user
    password: user
    vhost: user

Listen address and port rabbitmq_listen_address: 127.0.0.1 rabbitmq_listen_port: 5672

Max memory to access; can be as high as .9 for beefy dedicated rabbit server

rabbitmq_memory_high_watermark: .25

Vars for rabbitmq-env.conf

rabbitmq_conf_env:
  RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS: '{{ rabbitmq_listen_address }}'

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: taskbrokers
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: rabbitmq
      vars:
        rabbitmq_admin_user:
          username: myadmin
          password: mypassword
        rabbitmq_users:
          - username: me
            password: mepassword
            vhost: mehost
          - username: my
            password: mypassword
            vhost: myhost