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MQTT for Sysadmins
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Transcript
MQTT for sysadmins and for fun Jan-Piet Mens April 2014
@jpmens
@jpmens: consultant, author, architect, part-time admin, small-scale fiddler, loves LDAP,
DNS, plain text, and things that work.
MQTT is a standard, a transport, PUB/SUB messaging, designed for
unreliable networks
transport protocol binary payload, 256MB, (+2 bytes) , fast, lightweight,
ideal for low- bandwith, high-latency networks
security TLS authentication ACLs TLS-PSK (payload encryption)
Quality of Service 0 At most once 1 Assured delivery
2 Once only
more features keepalive last will & testament
compare HTTP ? request/response, verbose, push, poll, nobody hears clients
die
PUB/SUB decoupled senders recipients: flexibility one producer to many (changing)
consumers no queueing broker can hold messages until subscriber reconnects durable (retain) Last Will and Testament single TCP port (easy on firewalls)
topic names UTF-8, hierarchical, wildcards temperature/room/living devices/# finance/+/eur/rate
PUB/SUB cauldron
MQTT brokers the server bit of MQTT
Mosquitto C, fast, lightweight, ACLs (plugin), TLS, TLS-PSK, bridge, logging
via $SYS http://mosquitto.org
HiveMQ Java, plugins, Websockets, clustering, modules http://hivemq.com
more brokers RSMB, Mosca, Apollo, RabbitMQ
MQTT brokers $SYS topic $SYS/broker/clients/total 1771 $SYS/broker/messages/received 36597465 $SYS/broker/messages/sent 39714120
$SYS/broker/messages/stored 2941 $SYS/broker/bytes/received 2830787008 $SYS/broker/bytes/sent 3810653433 $SYS/broker/version mosquitto version 1.2 $SYS/broker/publish/messages/received 19798673 $SYS/broker/publish/messages/sent 30622855 $SYS/broker/publish/bytes/received 1868229299 $SYS/broker/publish/bytes/sent 3185942282
bridging
CLI utilities mosquitto_sub -v [-h localhost] [-p 1883] [--cafile file]
[--cert file --key file] [-u username [-P password]] [ --tls-version tlsv1.2 ] -t 'topic/#' subscribe publish mosquitto_pub ... [-r] -m payload
languages Lua, Python, C, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, Java, ...
Python API: PUB #!/usr/bin/env python import paho.mqtt.publish as mqtt mqtt.single('conf/hello',
'Hello MQTT') $ mosquitto_sub -h localhost -v -t 'conf/#' conf/hello Hello MQTT payload topic
Python API: SUB #!/usr/bin/env python import paho.mqtt.client as paho def
on_connect(mosq, userdata, rc): mqttc.subscribe("conf/+", 0) def on_message(mosq, userdata, msg): print "%s %s" % (msg.topic, str(msg.payload)) mqttc = paho.Client() mqttc.on_connect = on_connect mqttc.on_message = on_message mqttc.connect("localhost", 1883, 60) mqttc.loop_forever() callbacks
Python API: SUB $ mosquitto_pub -t 'conf/thirsty' -m 'Beertime?' $
mosquitto_pub -t 'conf/catering' -m 'Coffee is ready' $ ./sub.py conf/thirsty Beertime? conf/catering Coffee is ready
devices
devices
practical solutions alerting, metering, logging, location awareness, tracking, automation, and
controlling
MQTT out there Github (notifications), power metering, trains, FaceBook messenger,
connected cars, temperature monitoring, host monitoring (load)
system utilities Ansible (notifications), Fluentd (logging), Diamond (system metrics), mqtt-watchdir,
Jenkins, (build logs),
database persistence SUB and store in any SQL or NoSQL
database
alerting: mqttwarn https://github.com/jpmens/mqttwarn
job control, reporting https://gist.github.com/jpmens/7101170 $ mosquitto_sub -v -t 'processes/#' processes/run.sh
Starting processes/run.sh Still running processes/monitor/spec1 Starting processes/run.sh Still going strong at Tue Oct 22 15:49:07 CEST 2013 processes/run.sh That's it, folks!
WebSockets HiveMQ, WSS, lighttpd mod_websocket
WebSockets http://www.hivemq.com/demos/websocket-client/
None
None
Node-RED http://nodered.org
mqtt.org @mqttorg