diff --git a/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose b/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose
index e4b47f2ebc..e1169e4291 100644
--- a/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose
+++ b/awx/settings/local_settings.py.docker_compose
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ else:
     }
 
 # 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 ea7376531e..1a3ba9e7f3 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ 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
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
index d848638306..d7906ce28f 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