ActiveMQ Artemis not displaying the web console when run in Docker

In order to bypass the jolokia in the docker,

• I created a reverse proxy using nginx server in the docker and set the headers.

Below is the steps I followed,

• Run an nginx instance,

> docker run -d --name nginx-proxy -p 80:80 nginx

• copy the existing default.conf to local system, using below command

# my present working directory is a temp folder 
> docker cp nginx-proxy:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf .

• Identified the hostname/ip address of the aretmis container, since i need to set this to the header of Origin

> docker exec artemis hostname -i

• Updated below content to the default.conf file

server {
    listen       80;
    listen  [::]:80;
    server_name  localhost;

    location / {
     if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
        add_header Origin http://172.17.0.2;
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';

        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

        add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 86400;
        add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
        add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
        return 204; break;
     }

     if ($request_method = 'POST') {
        add_header Origin http://172.17.0.2;
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
     }
     if ($request_method = 'GET') {
        add_header Origin http://172.17.0.2;
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
     }

      proxy_pass http://172.17.0.2:8161/;
      proxy_set_header Origin http://172.17.0.2;
      proxy_set_header Host      $host:$server_port;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    }

    #error_page  404              /404.html;
    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
     error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
     location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
     }
}

• Note: don't forget the ; at the end.

• copy the default to the nginx server, we can validate and reload the new config without stopping the container.

# I am in my temp directory 
# to copy use below command
> docker cp default.conf nginx-proxy:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

# to validate the config file use below command
> docker exec nginx-proxy nginx -t

# to restart send singal using below command
> docker exec nginx-proxy nginx -r reload

• Since we are exposing the 80 port for the nginx container, we can hit the http://localhost:80/console to access the ArtemisMQ page.

• This can be use only for Development purpose. Not suitable for production.

Refered How to set nginx reverse proxy blog

Additional Note:

• I had to validate whether i am able to access the jolokia endpoint from within the the nginx server of docker, used below command.

> docker exec -it nginx-proxy bash

The curl command I used to verify.

root@681b68921481:/# curl -H "Origin: http://172.17.0.2" http://admin:[email protected]:8161/console/jolokia/

• Output:

{"request":{"type":"version"},"value":{"agent":"1.7.0","protocol":"7.2","config":{"listenForHttpService":"true","authIgnoreCerts":"false","agentId":"172.17.0.2-1-6c008c24-servlet","debug":"fal
se","agentType":"servlet","policyLocation":"file:/home/jboss/broker/etc/jolokia-access.xml","agentContext":"/jolokia","serializeException":"false","mimeType":"text/plain","dispatcherCla
sses":"org.jolokia.http.Jsr160ProxyNotEnabledByDefaultAnymoreDispatcher","multicastGroup":"239.192.48.84","authMode":"basic","authMatch":"any","streaming":"true","canonicalNaming":"true","hist
oryMaxEntries":"10","allowErrorDetails":"false","allowDnsReverseLookup":"true","realm":"jolokia","includeStackTrace":"false","multicastPort":"24884","mbeanQualifier":"qualifier=hawtio","useRes