Docker mosquitto test environment

• Docker mosquitto test environment
  • Start a simple "standard" mosquitto server
  • Start a mosquitto server with SSL and authentication support
  • mosquitto.conf — the configuration file for mosquitto
  • Change mosquitto password
  • Maintenance work in docker environment
  • MQTT Clients
  • Links
  • Licenses

Start a simple "standard" mosquitto server

docker run --name mosquitto -it -p 1883:1883 eclipse-mosquitto:1.5.8

Start a mosquitto server with SSL and authentication support

docker run --name mosquitto -it -p 8883:8883 -v $PWD/mosquitto.conf:/mosquitto/config/mosquitto.conf -v $PWD/certs:/mosquitto/certs -v $PWD/password_file:/mosquitto/config/password_file eclipse-mosquitto:1.5.8

mosquitto.conf — the configuration file for mosquitto

• https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto-conf-5.html
• mosquitto.conf.orig

Change mosquitto password

In docker container mosquitto.

mosquitto_passwd -c /mosquitto/config/password_file testuser

Copy password_file to docker host.

docker cp mosquitto:/mosquitto/config/password_file .

Maintenance work in docker environment

Access a running instance.

docker exec -ti mosquitto /bin/ash

Access a running instance as root.

docker exec -u root -ti mosquitto /bin/ash

Remove all containers.

docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)

Delete all untagged images.

docker rmi $(docker images | grep "^<none>" | awk '{print $3}')

Delete all unused volumes.

docker volume prune

MQTT Clients

• https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto_pub-1.html (client for publishing simple messages)
• http://mqttfx.org
• https://kamilfb.github.io/mqtt-spy/
• https://hobbyquaker.github.io/mqtt-admin/ (websocket test client)
• https://github.com/hivemq/hivemq-mqtt-web-client (websocket test client)
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.tripwire.mqtt.client

Links

• https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto

• Eclipse Mosquitto Docker Image

  • https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/tree/master/docker/1.5
  • https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-mosquitto
  • https://docs.docker.com/samples/library/eclipse-mosquitto/

Licenses

• Eclipse Mosquitto is released under the EPL/EDL.
• Docker's open source components are generally licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
• All written documents in this repo are licensed under CC0

As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user’s responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.