docker rabbitmq hostname issue - rabbitmq

Question

I am build an image using Dockerfile, and I would like to add users to RabbitMQ right after installation. The problem is that during build hostname of the docker container is different from when I run the resultant image. RabbitMQ loses that user; because of changed hostname it uses another DB.
I connot change /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files from inside a container, and looks that RabbitMQ is not picking my changes to RABBITMQ_NODENAME and HOSTNAME variables.
The only thing that I found working is running this before starting RabbitMQ broker:
echo "NODENAME=rabbit#localhost" >> /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf.d/ewos.conf
But then I will have to run docker image with changed hostname all the time.
docker run -h="localhost" image
Any ideas on what can be done? Maybe the solution is to add users to RabbitMQ not on build but on image run?

Answer 1

Just here is example how to configure from Dockerfile properly:
ENV HOSTNAME localhost
RUN /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start ; rabbitmqctl add_vhost /test; /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop
This is remember your config.

Answer 2

Yes, I would suggest to add users when the container runs for the first time.
Instead of starting RabbitMQ directly, you can run a wrapper script that will take care of all the setup, and then start RabbitMQ. If the last step of the wrapper script is a process start, remember that you can use exec so that the new process replaces the script itself.

Answer 3

This is how I did it.
Dockerfile
FROM debian:jessie
MAINTAINER Francesco Casula <fra.casula#gmail.com>
VOLUME ["/var/www"]
WORKDIR /var/www
ENV HOSTNAME my-docker
ENV RABBITMQ_NODENAME rabbit#my-docker
COPY scripts /root/scripts
RUN /bin/bash /root/scripts/os-setup.bash && \
/bin/bash /root/scripts/install-rabbitmq.bash
CMD /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start && \
/bin/bash
os-setup.bash
#!/bin/bash
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" > /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.1.1 my-docker" >> /etc/hosts
echo "my-docker" > /etc/hostname
install-rabbitmq.bash
#!/bin/bash
echo "NODENAME=rabbit#my-docker" > /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf
echo 'deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list
wget -O- https://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-release-signing-key.asc | apt-key add -
apt-get update
cd ~
wget https://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.6.5/rabbitmq-server_3.6.5-1_all.deb
dpkg -i rabbitmq-server_3.6.5-1_all.deb
apt-get install -f -y
/etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start
sleep 3
rabbitmq-plugins enable amqp_client mochiweb rabbitmq_management rabbitmq_management_agent \
rabbitmq_management_visualiser rabbitmq_web_dispatch webmachine
rabbitmqctl delete_user guest
rabbitmqctl add_user bunny password
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags bunny administrator
rabbitmqctl delete_vhost /
rabbitmqctl add_vhost symfony_prod
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p symfony_prod bunny ".*" ".*" ".*"
rabbitmqctl add_vhost symfony_dev
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p symfony_dev bunny ".*" ".*" ".*"
rabbitmqctl add_vhost symfony_test
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p symfony_test bunny ".*" ".*" ".*"
/etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server restart
IS_RABBIT_INSTALLED=`rabbitmqctl status | grep RabbitMQ | grep "3\.6\.5" | wc -l`
if [ "$IS_RABBIT_INSTALLED" = "0" ]; then
exit 1
fi
IS_RABBIT_CONFIGURED=`rabbitmqctl list_users | grep bunny | grep "administrator" | wc -l`
if [ "$IS_RABBIT_CONFIGURED" = "0" ]; then
exit 1
fi
Don't forget to run the container by specifying the right host with the -h flag:
docker run -h my-docker -it --name=my-docker -v $(pwd)/htdocs:/var/www my-docker

Answer 4

The only thing that helped me was to change default value in rabbitmq-env.conf of MNESIA_BASE property to MNESIA_BASE=/data and I added this command RUN mkdir /data in Dockerfile before starting server and add users.