Spring messaging : Can't connect to remote rabbitmq on GCP - rabbitmq

Question

This spring guide on messaging with rabbitmq does not talk about the host port configurations. I followed the same and added these properties to application.properties to connect to rabbitmq broker installed on GCP
spring:
rabbitmq:
host: XXX.XXX.XXX.XX
port: 5672
username: user
password: bitnami
virtual-host: /
While running the app I am getting timeout exception while connecting to rabbitmq
2017-08-06 17:16:54.322 ERROR 7280 --- [ container-1] o.s.a.r.l.SimpleMessageListenerContainer : Failed to check/redeclare auto-delete queue(s).
org.springframework.amqp.AmqpConnectException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.support.RabbitExceptionTranslator.convertRabbitAccessException(RabbitExceptionTranslator.java:62) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.AbstractConnectionFactory.createBareConnection(AbstractConnectionFactory.java:367) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.CachingConnectionFactory.createConnection(CachingConnectionFactory.java:565) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitTemplate.doExecute(RabbitTemplate.java:1430) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitTemplate.execute(RabbitTemplate.java:1411) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitTemplate.execute(RabbitTemplate.java:1387) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitAdmin.getQueueProperties(RabbitAdmin.java:336) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.redeclareElementsIfNecessary(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1136) ~[spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageProcessingConsumer.run(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1387) [spring-rabbit-1.7.2.RELEASE.jar:na]
Tried the following but still same error:
Opened up tcp:5672 through GCP firewall configuration
Changed the rabbitmq config at /opt/bitnami/rabbitmq/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config to change the allowed ips from localhost (127.0.0.1) to 0.0.0.0
{
rabbit,
[{tcp_listeners, [{"0.0.0.0", 5672}, {"::", 5672}]},
{default_vhost, <<"/">>},
{default_user, <<"user">>},
{default_pass, <<"bitnami">>},
{default_permissions, [<<".*">>, <<".*">>, <<".*">>]}
}
What could be the problem here ?
Update
I have installed rabbitmq locally and everything works fine.
I doubt if the updates to config file is actually not getting reflected properly. This is how I did it.
updated the rabbitmq.config
rabbitmqctl stop_app
rabbitmqctl start_app
But still I see some difference under the 'Ports and contexts' section in the UI
localhost
gcp
Any pointers ? Or is it all looking fine and the problem is something different, like with GCP setup or something ?

Answer 1

After telnet-ing to the port and checking the port config through the GCP console I figured out that I did a mistake in setting the right tag name to the instance where I installed rabbitmq.
Please do verify that the 'target tag' mentioned in your firewall rule is indeed mapped to the vm instance where rabbitmq is installed
Otherwise the config mentioned in the question is enough to make it work from a remote client