rabbitmq settings do not persist while running dockerfile - rabbitmq

Question

I have any application for which I want to:
run rabbitmq-server
setup some queues and exchanges (I have a setuprabbit.py script for it)
and then run some scripts (that is done in supervisor)... But before that I have to set up rabbit
My Dockerfile looks like this:
RUN cd /var && wget -q http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v2.8.2/rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.2.tar.gz
RUN cd /var && tar -xzvf rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.2.tar.gz && rm rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.2.tar.gz
ENV PATH /var/rabbitmq_server-2.8.2/sbin/:$PATH
RUN rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management && rabbitmq-server -detached && sleep 5 && cd /tmp/ && rabbitmqctl start_app && python buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py
#RUN rabbitmq-server -detached && sleep 5 && cd /tmp/ && rabbitmqctl start_app && python buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py
CMD ["supervisord", "-c", "/etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf"]
When I do a build it fails here (sudo docker build .)... It passes but I can see that by the time supervisor runs the scripts... rabbitmq is not longer running (rabbit node is down).
How do I persist rabbit setup e.t.c?
Here is my full Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu:precise
MAINTAINER njain
#VOLUME ["home/njain/office/buzz"]
ADD . /tmp/
# DOCKER-VERSION 0.3.4
# Docker basics
RUN apt-get -y update
# EDITORS
#RUN apt-get install -y -q vim
## PYTHON
RUN apt-get install -y -q python-software-properties
RUN apt-get install -y -q python
RUN apt-get install -y -q python-setuptools
RUN apt-get install -y -q python-virtualenv
RUN apt-get install -y -q python-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q python-distribute
#RUN apt-get install -y -q build-essential
RUN apt-get install -y -q python-pip
RUN pip --no-input install --upgrade pip
# LIBS
RUN apt-get install -y -q libjpeg8-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q zlib1g-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q libfreetype6-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q liblcms1-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q libwebp-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q libtiff-dev
RUN apt-get install -y -q libffi-dev
# TOOLS
RUN apt-get install -y -q curl
RUN apt-get install -y -q git
RUN apt-get install -y -q vim
#RABBIT
RUN apt-get install -y -q rabbitmq-server
#RUN /usr/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
# Install supervisor
RUN apt-get install -y supervisor
RUN mkdir -p /var/run/sshd
RUN mkdir -p /var/log/supervisor
RUN mkdir -p /etc/supervisor/conf.d
RUN mkdir -p /var/run/sshd /var/log/supervisor
COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
RUN pip --no-input install virtualenv
#RUN cd /tmp/
RUN cd /tmp/ && virtualenv buzzenv && python setup.py install
#RUN rabbitmq-server start &
#RUN python /tmp/buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py
# Install RabbitMQ.
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -f install
RUN apt-get install wget
#RUN \
#wget -qO - http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc | apt-key add - && \
#echo "deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list && \
#apt-get update && \
#DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y rabbitmq-server && \
#rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
#rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management && \
#echo "[{rabbit, [{loopback_users, []}]}]." > /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config
# Define RabbitMQ variables.
#RUN mkdir -p /data/mnesia
#RUN chown -R rabbitmq:rabbitmq /data
#ENV RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE /var/log/rabbitmq
#ENV RABBITMQ_MNESIA_BASE /data/mnesia
#EXPOSE 5672
#EXPOSE 15672
#RUN echo "NODENAME=rabbit#localhost" > /var/rabbitmq-env.conf
RUN cd /var && wget -q http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v2.8.2/rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.2.tar.gz
RUN cd /var && tar -xzvf rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.2.tar.gz && rm rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.2.tar.gz
ENV PATH /var/rabbitmq_server-2.8.2/sbin/:$PATH
RUN rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management && rabbitmq-server -detached && sleep 5 && cd /tmp/ && rabbitmqctl start_app && python buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py
#RUN rabbitmq-server -detached && sleep 5 && cd /tmp/ && rabbitmqctl start_app && python buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py
CMD ["supervisord", "-c", "/etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf"]

Answer 1

Because of the way docker works... After I run
RUN rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management && \
rabbitmq-server -detached && \
sleep 5 && \
cd /tmp/ && \
rabbitmqctl start_app && \
python buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py
it stops the rabbit server.
To make sure the states are preserved, I needed to
RUN rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management && \
rabbitmq-server -detached && \
sleep 5 && \
cd /tmp/ && \
rabbitmqctl start_app && \
python buzz/scripts/setuprabbit.py && \
rabbitmqctl stop_app
and then start rabbitmq-server again in the next step.