Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Version
  • Changelog
• Hardware Requirements
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • Storage
• Contributing
• Issues
• Installation
• Quick Start
• Configuration
  • ACCESS
  • QUEUE
  • TOPIC
  • Data Store
  • BROKER
  • Disk usage
  • JMX
  • Avaible Configuration Parameters
  • Advance configuration
• References

Introduction

Dockerfile to build a ActiveMQ container image.

Version

Current Version: 5.14.3

Hardware Requirements

CPU

• No stats avaible to say the number of core in function of messages

Memory

• 512MB is too little memory, i think is to use ActiveMQ on test environment
• 1GB is the standard memory size

You can set the memory that you need :

docker run --name='activemq' -it --rm \
    -e 'ACTIVEMQ_MIN_MEMORY=512' \
    -e 'ACTIVEMQ_MAX_MEMORY=2048'\
        -P
    webcenter/activemq:latest

This sample lauch ActiveMQ in docker with 512 MB of memory, and then ACtiveMQ can take 2048 MB of max memory

Storage

The necessary hard drive space depends if you use persistant message or not and the type of appender. Normaly, no need space for ActiveMQ because the most data are contains directly on memory. I think it depends on how you use ActiveMQ ;)

Contributing

If you find this image useful here's how you can help:

• Send a Pull Request with your awesome new features and bug fixes
• Help new users with Issues they may encounter
• Send me a tip via Bitcoin or using Gratipay

Issues

Docker is a relatively new project and is active being developed and tested by a thriving community of developers and testers and every release of docker features many enhancements and bugfixes.

Given the nature of the development and release cycle it is very important that you have the latest version of docker installed because any issue that you encounter might have already been fixed with a newer docker release.

For ubuntu users I suggest installing docker using docker's own package repository since the version of docker packaged in the ubuntu repositories are a little dated.

Here is the shortform of the installation of an updated version of docker on ubuntu.

sudo apt-get purge docker.io
curl -s https://get.docker.io/ubuntu/ | sudo sh
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lxc-docker

Fedora and RHEL/CentOS users should try disabling selinux with setenforce 0 and check if resolves the issue. If it does than there is not much that I can help you with. You can either stick with selinux disabled (not recommended by redhat) or switch to using ubuntu.

If using the latest docker version and/or disabling selinux does not fix the issue then please file a issue request on the issues page.

In your issue report please make sure you provide the following information:

• The host distribution and release version.
• Output of the docker version command
• Output of the docker info command
• The docker run command you used to run the image (mask out the sensitive bits).

Installation

Pull the image from the docker index. This is the recommended method of installation as it is easier to update image. These builds are performed by the Docker Trusted Build service.

docker pull webcenter/activemq:5.14.3

You can also pull the latest tag which is built from the repository HEAD

docker pull webcenter/activemq:latest

Alternately you can build the image locally.

git clone https://github.com/disaster37/activemq.git
cd activemq
docker build --tag="$USER/activemq" .

Quick Start

You can launch the image using the docker command line :

• For test purpose :

docker run --name='activemq' -it --rm -P \
webcenter/activemq:latest

The account admin is "admin" and password is "admin". All settings is the default ActiveMQ's settings.

• For production purpose :

docker run --name='activemq' -d \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_NAME=amqp-srv1' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_REMOVE_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT=true' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_ADMIN_LOGIN=admin' -e 'ACTIVEMQ_ADMIN_PASSWORD=your_password' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_WRITE_LOGIN=producer_login' -e 'ACTIVEMQ_WRITE_PASSWORD=producer_password' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_READ_LOGIN=consumer_login' -e 'ACTIVEMQ_READ_PASSWORD=consumer_password' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_JMX_LOGIN=jmx_login' -e 'ACTIVEMQ_JMX_PASSWORD=jmx_password' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_STATIC_TOPICS=topic1;topic2;topic3' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_STATIC_QUEUES=queue1;queue2;queue3' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_MIN_MEMORY=1024' -e  'ACTIVEMQ_MAX_MEMORY=4096' \
-e 'ACTIVEMQ_ENABLED_SCHEDULER=true' \
-v /data/activemq:/data/activemq \
-v /var/log/activemq:/var/log/activemq \
-p 8161:8161 \
-p 61616:61616 \
-p 61613:61613 \
webcenter/activemq:5.14.3

Or you can use fig. Assuming you have fig installed,

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/disaster37/activemq/master/fig.yml
fig up

Configuration

ACCESS

todo

QUEUE

todo

TOPIC

todo

Data Store

todo

BROKER

todo

Disk usage

todo

JMX

todo

Avaible Configuration Parameters

Please refer the docker run command options for the --env-file flag where you can specify all required environment variables in a single file. This will save you from writing a potentially long docker run command. Alternately you can use fig.

Below is the complete list of available options that can be used to customize your activemq installation.

• ACTIVEMQ_NAME: The hostname of ActiveMQ server. Default to localhost

• ACTIVEMQ_LOGLEVEL: The log level. Default to INFO

• ACTIVEMQ_PENDING_MESSAGE_LIMIT: It is used to prevent slow topic consumers to block producers and affect other consumers by limiting the number of messages that are retained. Default to 1000

• ACTIVEMQ_STORAGE_USAGE: The maximum amount of space storage the broker will use before disabling caching and/or slowing down producers. Default to 100 gb

• ACTIVEMQ_TEMP_USAGE: The maximum amount of space temp the broker will use before disabling caching and/or slowing down producers. Default to 50 gb

• ACTIVEMQ_MAX_CONNECTION: It's DOS protection. It limit concurrent connections. Default to 1000

• ACTIVEMQ_FRAME_SIZE: It's DOS protection. It limit the frame size. Default to 104857600 (100MB)

• ACTIVEMQ_ENABLED_SCHEDULER: Permit to enabled scheduler in ActiveMQ. Default to true

• ACTIVEMQ_ENABLED_AUTH: Permit to enabled the authentification in queue and topic (no anonymous access). Default to false

• ACTIVEMQ_MIN_MEMORY: The init memory in MB that ActiveMQ take when start (it's like XMS). Default to 128 (128 MB)

• ACTIVEMQ_MAX_MEMORY: The max memory in MB that ActiveMQ can take (it's like XMX). Default to 1024 (1024 MB)

• ACTIVEMQ_REMOVE_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT: It's permit to remove all default login on ActiveMQ (Webconsole, broker and JMX). Default to false

• ACTIVEMQ_ADMIN_LOGIN: The login for admin account (broker and web console). Default to admin

• ACTIVEMQ_ADMIN_PASSWORD: The password for admin account. Default to admin

• ACTIVEMQ_USER_LOGIN: The login to access on web console with user role (no right on broker). Default to user

• ACTIVEMQ_USER_PASSWORD: The password for user account. Default to user

• ACTIVEMQ_READ_LOGIN: The login to access with read only role on all queues and topics.

• ACTIVEMQ_READ_PASSWORD: The password for read account.

• ACTIVEMQ_WRITE_LOGIN: The login to access with write role on all queues and topics.

• ACTIVEMQ_WRITE_PASSWORD: The password for write account.

• ACTIVEMQ_OWNER_LOGIN: The login to access with admin role on all queues and topics.

• ACTIVEMQ_OWNER_PASSWORD: The password for owner account.

• ACTIVEMQ_JMX_LOGIN: The login to access with read / write role on JMX. Default to admin

• ACTIVEMQ_JMX_PASSWORD: The password for JMX account. Default to activemq

• ACTIVEMQ_STATIC_TOPICS: The list of topics separated by comma witch is created when ActiveMQ start.

• ACTIVEMQ_STATIC_QUEUES: The list of queues separated by comma witch is created when ActiveMQ start.

Advance configuration

For advance configuration, the best way is to read ActiveMQ documentation and created your own setting file like activemq.xml. Next, you can mount it when you run this image or you can create your own image (base on this image) and include your specifics config file.

The home of ActiveMQ is in /opt/activemq, so if you want to override all the setting, you can launch docker with -v /your_path/conf:/opt/activemq/conf