First published on TECHNET on Jul 25, 2018
Hello from Microsoft Hackathon!!!
What are we hacking? Containerizing MSMQ! Let me tell you more…
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Published Mar 22, 2019
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Virtualization-Team Thanks for the hard work!
I've been working on determining whether or not I can containerize an application using MSMQ as the message transport for an SOA application. (Why MSMQ? Many businesses are still using MSMQ and are not in a position to quickly migrate off of this technology. So knowing that MSMQ works in Docker Windows containers for legacy applications should be good news for those who would like to reap the benefits of containerization while they make their plans to transition to some other message transport.) To do this, I'm making use of Windows Server 2019 LTSC, and Particular Software's NServiceBus suite of software.
Today, I was able to spin up 3 containers, one hosting a Microsoft SQL Server 2017 CU14 database server, another hosting Particular Software ServiceControl (it's a management application that lets you see what's happening on the service bus) and an NServiceBus endpoint. Furthermore, I was able to open Particular Software's ServiceInsight and connect it to the ServiceControl instance running in the container. I was able to see that ServiceControl was aware of the existence of the NServiceBus endpoint (i.e. the endpoint was displayed in the Endpoint Explorer queue). This means that messages are flowing between the two containers via MSMQ.