Mosquitto is an open source (BSD licensed) message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol versions 3.1 and 3.1.1. MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers like the Arduino. A good example of this is all of the work that Andy Stanford-Clark (one of the originators of MQTT) has done in home monitoring and automation with his twittering house and twittering ferry. Andy gave a talk on this at OggCamp that explains a bit about MQTT and how he uses it. The slides and audio are available online at slideshare.
mosquitto:
image: vimagick/mosquitto
ports:
- "1883:1883"
restart: always