Mosquitto 2 MQTT Broker Ubuntu 24.04

Mosquitto 2 on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

Eclipse Mosquitto is the canonical lightweight MQTT broker — used in millions of IoT deployments. The cloudimg image installs Mosquitto 2.x with allow_anonymous false and a per-VM cloudimg user password rotated at first boot.

What's included:

• Mosquitto 2.x from Ubuntu 24.04 noble universe
• mosquitto-clients for testing
• Per-VM cloudimg password rotated at firstboot
• Anonymous connections rejected
• Persistence at /var/lib/mosquitto
• 24/7 cloudimg support

Recommended VM: Standard_B2s is plenty (Mosquitto is famously efficient).