Try It Out

Take the Minimus RabbitMQ image for a test run:

docker run --name minimus_rabbitmq \
  -p 5672:5672 --rm  \
  reg.mini.dev/rabbitmq

Keep the terminal window open to see the container's status messages. For example:

##  ##      RabbitMQ 4.0.8
##  ##
##########  Copyright (c) 2007-2025 Broadcom Inc and/or its subsidiaries
######  ##
##########  Licensed under the MPL 2.0. Website: https://rabbitmq.com
Erlang:      26.2.5.10 [jit]
TLS Library: OpenSSL - OpenSSL 3.5.0 8 Apr 2025
Release series support status: see https://www.rabbitmq.com/release-information

In another terminal window, run the following to create a user and password and set permissions:

docker exec -it minimus_rabbitmq rabbitmqctl add_user myuser mypassword
docker exec -it minimus_rabbitmq rabbitmqctl set_user_tags myuser administrator
docker exec -it minimus_rabbitmq rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / myuser ".*" ".*" ".*"

Next, save the following Python script as a file named send_message.py:

import pika

credentials = pika.PlainCredentials('Admin', 'Admin')
parameters = pika.ConnectionParameters('localhost', 5672, '/', credentials)
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(parameters)channel = connection.channel()
channel.queue_declare(queue='hello')
channel.basic_publish(exchange='', routing_key='hello', body='Hello Minimus!')
print(" [x] Sent 'Hello Minimus!'")
connection.close()

Save the following Python script as a file named receive_message.py:

import pika

def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
    print(f" [x] Received: {body.decode()}")

credentials = pika.PlainCredentials('Admin', 'Admin')
parameters = pika.ConnectionParameters('localhost', 5672, '/', credentials)
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(parameters)
channel = connection.channel()
channel.queue_declare(queue='hello')
channel.basic_consume(queue='hello', on_message_callback=callback, auto_ack=True)

print(' [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C')
channel.start_consuming()

Create a Python virtual environment and activate it:

python3 -m venv ~/venvs/rabbitmq-test
source ~/venvs/rabbitmq-test/bin/activate

You should see your prompt has changed to something that includes rabbitmq-test. Now you can continue to install pika in your virtual environment:

pip install pika

In the same terminal, run the receiver:

python receive_message.py

It should print:

[*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C

In another terminal, activate the virtual environment and run the sender:

source ~/venvs/rabbitmq-test/bin/activate
python send_message.py

Finally now you should see both in the sender and the receiver terminals the following:

 [x] Sent 'Hello Minimus!'

Technical Considerations

The RabbitMQ image provided by Minimus is a slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from Docker Hub. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

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