VerneMQ is a high-performance, distributed MQTT message broker. It scales horizontally and vertically on commodity hardware to support a high number of concurrent publishers and consumers while maintaining low latency and fault tolerance. VerneMQ is the reliable message hub for your IoT platform or smart products.
VerneMQ is an Apache2 licensed distributed MQTT broker, developed in Erlang.
docker run --name vernemq1 -d erlio/docker-vernemq
Somtimes you need to configure a forwarding for ports (on a Mac for example):
docker run -p 1883:1883 --name vernemq1 -d erlio/docker-vernemq
This starts a new node that listens on 1883 for MQTT connections and on 8080 for MQTT over websocket connections. However, at this moment the broker won't be able to authenticate the connecting clients. To allow anonymous clients use the DOCKER_VERNEMQ_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=on environment variable.
docker run -e "DOCKER_VERNEMQ_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=on" --name vernemq1 -d erlio/docker-vernemq
This allows a newly started container to automatically join a VerneMQ cluster. Assuming you started your first node like the example above you could autojoin the cluster (which currently consists of a single container 'vernemq1') like the following:
docker run -e "DOCKER_VERNEMQ_DISCOVERY_NODE=<IP-OF-VERNEMQ1>" --name vernemq2 -d erlio/docker-vernemq
(Note, you can find the IP of a docker container using docker inspect <containername/cid> | grep \"IPAddress\").
To check if the bove containers have successfully clustered you can issue the vmq-admin command:
docker exec vernemq1 vmq-admin cluster show
+--------------------+-------+
| Node |Running|
+--------------------+-------+
|[email protected]| true |
|[email protected]| true |
+--------------------+-------+
All vmq-admin commands are available. See https://vernemq.com/docs/administration/ for more information.
All configuration parameters that are available in vernemq.conf can be defined
using the DOCKER_VERNEMQ prefix followed by the confguration parameter name.
E.g: allow_anonymous=on is -e "DOCKER_VERNEMQ_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=on" or
allow_register_during_netsplit=on is
-e "DOCKER_VERNEMQ_ALLOW_REGISTER_DURING_NETSPLIT=on". All available configuration
parameters can be found on https://vernemq.com/docs/configuration/.
Some of our configuration variables contain dots .. For example if you want to
adjust the log level of VerneMQ you'd use -e "DOCKER_VERNEMQ_LOG.CONSOLE.LEVEL=debug". However, some container platforms
such as Kubernetes don't support dots and other special characters in
environment variables. If you are on such a platform you could substitute the
dots with two underscores __. The example above would look like -e "DOCKER_VERNEMQ_LOG__CONSOLE__LEVEL=debug".
You can set up File Based Authentication by adding users and passwords as environment variables as follows:
DOCKER_VERNEMQ_USER_<USERNAME>='password'
where <USERNAME> is the username you want to use. This can be done as many times as necessary
to create the users you want. The usernames will always be created in lowercase
CAVEAT - You cannot have a = character in your password.