RabbitMQ 4 on Ubuntu 24.04

## RabbitMQ 4 on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

RabbitMQ 4 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), purpose built for Microsoft Azure and maintained by cloudimg. RabbitMQ is the most widely deployed open source message broker, with mature support for AMQP 0-9-1, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, STOMP, and Streams, polyglot client libraries for nearly every programming language, and a battle tested management UI for inspecting queues, exchanges, bindings, and consumers.

Why Choose cloudimg?

* 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24 hour response for all requests and one hour average for critical issues. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk

* Production Ready from Launch Pre configured, security patched, and validated before publication

* Azure Native Integration Built with Azure Linux Agent, cloud init, and Gen2 Hyper V support

* Per VM Admin Credential Generation Admin password rotated uniquely at first boot via rabbitmqctl change_password and written to /stage/scripts/rabbitmq-credentials.log. The default guest user is deleted at first boot as defence in depth

What is Included

* RabbitMQ 4.x server installed from the official rabbitmq.com Cloudsmith APT repository

* Modern Erlang from the rabbitmq.com APT repository (Ubuntu noble main only ships an older Erlang that does not work with RabbitMQ 4)

* rabbitmq_management plugin enabled at install time (admin UI on TCP 15672)

* rabbitmq_prometheus plugin enabled at install time (metrics on TCP 15692; ready for Grafana scraping)

* AMQP listener on TCP 5672

* Bound to all interfaces by default; NSG controls actual reach

* rabbitmq-firstboot.service systemd oneshot that rotates the cloudimg admin password and deletes the default guest user

* rabbitmq-server.service systemd unit auto starting on boot

* Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with latest security patches applied at build time

* Azure Linux Agent for seamless cloud integration and SSH key injection

Use Cases

* Decoupled microservices messaging (work queues, pub/sub, RPC patterns)

* Event driven architectures with multiple downstream consumers

* Background job queues (Celery, Sidekiq, Bull) for web application backends

* IoT message ingestion via the MQTT plugin (enable post deployment with rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_mqtt)

* Cross language messaging bus across Python, Node.js, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP

* Message broker for Apache Camel, Spring Cloud Stream, NestJS, and other EIP frameworks

Technical Specifications

* Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

* RabbitMQ Version: 4.x (official rabbitmq.com Cloudsmith APT repo)

* Erlang: latest from rabbitmq.com (RabbitMQ 4 requires Erlang 26+)

* Default Admin User: cloudimg with administrator tag and full permissions on the / vhost

* Ports: 5672 (AMQP), 15672 (HTTP management UI), 15692 (Prometheus metrics)

* Default User: azureuser (sudo enabled)

* Service Management: systemd (rabbitmq-server.service, rabbitmq-firstboot.service)

* Recommended Size: Standard_B2s for development; Standard_D2s_v3 or larger for production with persistent queues and many connections

* VM Generation: Hyper V Gen2 with UEFI boot

Support

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