The easiest way to install RabbitMQ on macOS is using Homebrew the new and shiny package management system for macOS.
Here's a general step by step guide:
If you don't already have it install Homebrew, you can install it by running the following command in the Terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Once Homebrew is installed, you can install RabbitMQ by running this command will download and install RabbitMQ with its dependencies.
brew install rabbitmq
After installation, you might need to add RabbitMQ to your PATH. You can do this by adding the following line to your .bash_profile, .zshrc. This step ensures that you can run RabbitMQ commands from the Terminal.
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin
Starting/Stopping the RabbitMQ server
Next, we can start up RabbitMQ using Homebrew, the command below ensures that RabbitMQ will run automatically at login.
brew services start rabbitmq
Optionally, If you would like to verify the installation of RabbitMQ and ensure it's up and running correctly, you can check its status by running the status command, it will provide you information on the RabbitMQ service status.
rabbitmqctl status
Also, if you would like to stop RabbitMQ services for any reason you can use the brew command stop the rabbitmq service.
brew services stop rabbitmq
Running management plugin with RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ also comes with a management plugin that provides a browser-based UI for managing and monitoring your RabbitMQ server. If you would like to monitor the stats of your RabbitMQ server.
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
After enabling it, you can access the management console through http://localhost:15672/. By default the username and password are both “guest”.
Finally to keep RabbitMQ updated you can use Homebrew commands for update and upgrade
brew update
brew upgrade rabbitmq
If you encounter any issues during setup it might also be worth checking the official RabbitMQ documentation.
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