RabbitMQ Cheat Sheet

Get Admin Username and Password

# Username
kubectl -n openstack get secret rabbitmq-default-user -o jsonpath="{.data.username}" | base64 --decode
# Password
kubectl -n openstack get secret rabbitmq-default-user -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 --decode

Opening the UI

kubectl -n openstack port-forward svc/rabbitmq 15672

Then open http://localhost:15672/ in your web browser and log in using the credentials from above.

CLI

List exchanges

kubectl -n openstack exec -it rabbitmq-server-0 -c rabbitmq -- rabbitmqadmin list exchanges

List vhosts

kubectl -n openstack exec -it rabbitmq-server-0 -c rabbitmq -- rabbitmqadmin list vhosts

List queues

kubectl -n openstack exec -it rabbitmq-server-0 -c rabbitmq -- rabbitmqadmin list queues

More details:

kubectl -n openstack exec -it rabbitmq-server-0 -c rabbitmq -- rabbitmqadmin list queues vhost name node messages message_stats.publish_details.rate

Listen to the messages

rabbitmqadmin --vhost=<VHOST> get queue=<QueueName> requeue=true

For example:

kubectl -n openstack exec -it rabbitmq-server-0 -c rabbitmq -- rabbitmqadmin --vhost=nova get queue=notifications.info ackmode=ack_requeue_true count=5

Capture a queue to a file

kubectl -n openstack exec -it rabbitmq-server-0 -c rabbitmq -- rabbitmqadmin --vhost=nova get queue=notifications.info ackmode=ack_requeue_true payload_file=/tmp/test.json
kubectl -n openstack cp rabbitmq-server-0:/tmp/test.json -c rabbitmq /tmp/test.json