Ansible Role: RabbitMQ

Installs RabbitMQ on Linux.

Requirements

(Red Hat / CentOS only) Requires the EPEL repository, which can be installed with the geerlingguy.repo-epel role.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

Controls the RabbitMQ daemon's state and whether it starts at boot.

rabbitmq_daemon: rabbitmq-server
rabbitmq_state: started
rabbitmq_enabled: true

The RabbitMQ version install is the one in already provided repositories.

(Debian/Ubuntu only) Controls the .deb to install.

rabbitmq_version: "3.9.13"

You can enable clustering (work in progress), setting this variable to true.

rabbitmq_cluster: false

If you set rabbitmq_cluster: true, set the erlang cookie so it's the sam over all member of the cluster.

rabbitmq_erlang_cookie: "set_your_cockie_here"

This is the full path name to the erlang cookie file.

rabbitmq_erlang_cookie_file: /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie 

List of users to create, and set password.

rabbitmq_users:
  - user: admin
    password: set_admin_password
    tags: administrator

List of user to remove

rabbitmq_users_absent:
  - guest

List of vhosts to create

rabbitmq_vhosts: []

List of vhosts to remove

rabbitmq_vhosts_absent: []

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: rabbitmq
  roles:
    - name: geerlingguy.repo-epel
      when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
    - geerlingguy.rabbitmq

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2017 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.