Starting the RabbitMQ server with Docker

We can use Docker to spin up the RabbitMQ server. We do not want to install the server on our developer machines as it can create library conflicts and a lot of files. Let's understand how to start RabbitMQ in a Docker container.

Let's do that in the next couple of sections.

Pulling the RabbitMQ image from Docker Hub

We need to pull the RabbitMQ image from Docker Hub. We will use the image from the official repository as it is more safe and reliable.

To get the image, we need to use the following command:

docker pull rabbitmq:3.7.0-management-alpine

Wait for the download to end and then we can move forward to the next section. In the next section, we will learn how to...