Overview
AMQ provides fast, lightweight, and secure messaging for Internet-scale applications. AMQ components use industry-standard message protocols and support a wide range of programming languages and operating environments. AMQ gives you the strong foundation you need to build modern distributed applications.
What is AMQ Broker?
AMQ Broker is a pure-Java multiprotocol message broker. It’s built on an efficient, asynchronous core, with a fast native journal for message persistence and the option of shared-nothing state replication for high availability.
- Persistence - A fast, native-IO journal or a JDBC-based store
- High availability - Shared store or shared-nothing state replication
- Advanced queueing - Last value queues, message groups, topic hierarchies, and large message support
- Multiprotocol - AMQP 1.0, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire, and HornetQ Core
AMQ Broker is based on the Apache ActiveMQ Artemis project.
What will you learn
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a Red Hat AMQ message broker instance running on OpenShift.
During this simple steps, you created and started an AMQ Broker to send and receive messages on a Queue.
Red Hat AMQ has many features. We worked through a couple of those features, and you should feel comfortable with some of the basics after these steps.
Additional Resources
To learn more about getting started, see the documentation at Red Hat Developer's Site
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Steps
Messaging with OpenShift and Red Hat AMQ
Creating an Initial Project
To get started, first we need to login to OpenShift.
Logging in to the Cluster via OpenShift CLI
To login to the OpenShift cluster use the following commmand in your Terminal:
oc login -u admin -p admin
You can click on the above command (and all others in this scenario) to automatically copy it into the terminal and execute it.
This will log you in using the credentials:
- Username:
admin
- Password:
admin
You should see the output:
Login successful.
You don't have any projects. You can try to create a new project, by running
oc new-project <projectname>
For this scenario lets create a project called messaging
by running the command:
oc new-project messaging
You should see output similar to:
Now using project "messaging" on server "https://172.17.0.41:8443".
You can add applications to this project with the 'new-app' command. For example, try:
oc new-app centos/ruby-22-centos7~https://github.com/openshift/ruby-ex.git
to build a new example application in Ruby. Or use kubectl to deploy a simple Kubernetes application:
kubectl create deployment hello-node --image=gcr.io/hello-minikube-zero-install/hello-node
Install AMQ broker operator
AMQ Broker provides container images and Operators for running ActiveMQ Artemis on OpenShift.
Deploy the Operator Lifecycle Manager Operator Group and Susbcription to easily install the operator in the previously created namespace:
oc -n messaging apply -f /opt/operator-install.yaml
You should see the following result:
operatorgroup.operators.coreos.com/broker-operatorgroup created
subscription.operators.coreos.com/amq-broker created
You can also deploy the AMQ broker operator from the OpenShift OperatorHub from within the administration console.
Check operator deployment
Follow up the operator deployment to validate it is running.
To watch the pods status run the following command:
oc -n messaging get pods -w
You will see the status of the operator changing until it gets to running
. It should look similar to the following:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
amq-broker-operator-6c76986f9-bsrcv 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 1s
amq-broker-operator-6c76986f9-bsrcv 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 2s
amq-broker-operator-6c76986f9-bsrcv 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 7s
amq-broker-operator-6c76986f9-bsrcv 1/1 Running 0 23s
Hit Ctrl+C to stop the process.
^C
In the next step, you will deploy a new instance of the AMQ broker.