diff --git a/awx/settings/defaults.py b/awx/settings/defaults.py
index 18e44cdc72..97157e4acd 100644
--- a/awx/settings/defaults.py
+++ b/awx/settings/defaults.py
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
     },
 }
 
-# Use Redis as cache backend (except when testing).
+# Django Caching Configuration
 if is_testing():
     CACHES = {
         'default': {
@@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ if is_testing():
 else:
     CACHES = {
         'default': {
-            'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
-            'LOCATION': BROKER_URL,
+            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
+            'LOCATION': 'memcached:11211',
         },
     }
 
diff --git a/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose b/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose
index e4b47f2ebc..c85d89cb21 100644
--- a/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose
+++ b/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose
@@ -48,23 +48,8 @@ if is_testing(sys.argv):
     
     MONGO_DB = 'system_tracking_test'
 
-# Django Caching Configuration
-if is_testing():
-    CACHES = {
-        'default': {
-            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
-        },
-    }
-else:
-    CACHES = {
-        'default': {
-            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
-            'LOCATION': 'memcached:11211',
-        },
-    }
-
 # Celery AMQP configuration.
-BROKER_URL = 'qpid://qpid:5672'
+BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@rabbitmq//'
 
 # Mongo host configuration
 MONGO_HOST = NotImplemented
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 34176e14ed..1a3ba9e7f3 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ django-extensions==1.5.9
 git+https://github.com/chrismeyersfsu/django-jsonbfield@fix-sqlite_serialization#egg=jsonbfield
 django-polymorphic==0.7.2
 django-radius==1.0.0
-# NOTE: Remove when we transition packaging
-django-redis-cache==1.6.5
 djangorestframework==3.3.2
 djangorestframework-yaml==1.0.2
 django-split-settings==0.1.1
@@ -110,13 +108,10 @@ python-troveclient==1.4.0
 pytz==2015.7
 PyYAML==3.11
 pyzmq==14.5.0
-qpid-python==0.32.1
 rackspace-auth-openstack==1.3
 rackspace-novaclient==1.5
 rax-default-network-flags-python-novaclient-ext==0.3.2
 rax-scheduled-images-python-novaclient-ext==0.3.1
-# NOTE: Remove this when we transition packaging
-redis==2.10.3
 requests-oauthlib==0.5.0
 requests==2.9.1
 requestsexceptions==1.1.1
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
index f58cda659e..5fa57df995 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ pytest-cov
 pytest-django
 pytest-pythonpath
 pytest-mock
-qpid-tools
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose.yml b/tools/docker-compose.yml
index 638926b727..73a5c12bb9 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/tools/docker-compose.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ services:
     links:
       - postgres
       - memcached
-      - qpid
+      - rabbitmq
     #   - sync
     # volumes_from:
     #   - sync
@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ services:
   memcached:
     image: memcached:alpine
 
-  qpid:
-    image: fedora/qpid:latest
-    entrypoint: qpidd --auth=no
+  rabbitmq:
+    image: rabbitmq:3-management
 
   # Source Code Synchronization Container
   # sync:
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh b/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh
index b75ef757c1..96812974fa 100755
--- a/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set +x
 # Wait for the databases to come up
 ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m wait_for -a "host=postgres port=5432" all
 ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m wait_for -a "host=memcached port=11211" all
-ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m wait_for -a "host=qpid port=5672" all
+ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m wait_for -a "host=rabbitmq port=5672" all
 
 # In case Tower in the container wants to connect to itself, use "docker exec" to attach to the container otherwise
 # TODO: FIX