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RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an Open-Source message broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).

To use it in your application, add it to .symfony/services.yaml:

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myrabbitmq:
    # supported versions: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
    type: rabbitmq:3.7
    disk: 1500

And wire it in .symfony.cloud.yaml:

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relationships:
    rabbitmq: "myrabbitmq:rabbitmq"

The configuration is exposed via the following environment variables (where RABBITMQ is the upper-cased version of the key defined in the relationship above):

  • RABBITMQ_URL: The RabbitMQ standardized URL
  • RABBITMQ_SERVER: The RabbitMQ server
  • RABBITMQ_HOST: The RabbitMQ host
  • RABBITMQ_PORT: The RabbitMQ port
  • RABBITMQ_SCHEME: The RabbitMQ scheme
  • RABBITMQ_USER: The RabbitMQ username
  • RABBITMQ_USERNAME: The RabbitMQ username
  • RABBITMQ_PASSWORD: The RabbitMQ passsword

Connecting to RabbitMQ

From the Application Container

Use the defined environment variables to configure your framework of choice.

Note

The application container doesn’t include any useful utilities to connect to RabbitMQ with. However, you can add a client as a dependency in your .symfony.cloud.yaml file, like amqp-utils:

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dependencies:
    ruby:
        amqp-utils: "0.5.1"

Then, use any amqp-* commands when connected via SSH.

Management UI

We ship RabbitMQ with the Management UI enabled by default.

The configuration to access it from your containers is exposed via the same set of environment variables but prefixed with RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT (where RABBITMQ is the upper-cased version of the key defined in the relationship).

To access this UI from your local machine, use the Symfony CLI to open an SSH tunnel:

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$ symfony tunnel:open
SSH tunnel opened on port 30000 to relationship rabbitmq
SSH tunnel opened on port 30001 to relationship rabbitmq-management

Tip

Use symfony tunnel:info to discover username and password to access the UI.

Troubleshooting

Messages not being received

RabbitMQ probably doesn’t have enough disk space allocated to it. On SymfonyCloud, the service writes all of its data to disk, and thus needs a disk value that is greater than its RAM allocation. For most Master branches, the service needs at least 1300 MB of disk space to work properly.

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