diff --git a/roles/docker_services/defaults/main.yml b/roles/docker_services/defaults/main.yml
index 0101561..5cbafb0 100644
--- a/roles/docker_services/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/docker_services/defaults/main.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ services:
     postgres_version: 14-alpine
     redis_version: 7-alpine
 
+  simplexmq:
+    domain: smp01.simplex.{{ base_domain }}
+    volume: "{{ base_volume }}/simplexmq"
+    version: latest
+
   snowflake:
     version: latest
 
diff --git a/roles/docker_services/tasks/services/simplexmq.yml b/roles/docker_services/tasks/services/simplexmq.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33a554f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/docker_services/tasks/services/simplexmq.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# vim: ft=yaml.ansible
+---
+- name: Create SimpleXMQ config directory
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    name: "{{ services.simplexmq.volume }}/config"
+    owner: root
+    mode: u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
+    state: directory
+
+- name: Create SimpleXMQ logs directory
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    name: "{{ services.simplexmq.volume }}/logs"
+    owner: root
+    mode: u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
+    state: directory
+
+- name: Create Docker network for SimpleXMQ
+  community.docker.docker_network:
+    name: simplexmq
+    state: present
+
+- name: Deploy SimpleXMQ Docker container
+  community.docker.docker_container:
+    name: simplexmq
+    state: "{{ 'absent' if stop is defined and stop else 'started' }}"
+    image: simplexchat/simplexmq:{{ services.simplexmq.version }}
+    restart_policy: always
+    networks:
+      - name: simplexmq
+    env:
+      addr: "{{ services.simplexmq.domain }}"
+    volumes:
+      - "{{ services.simplexmq.volume }}/config:/etc/opt/simplex:rw"
+      - "{{ services.simplexmq.volume }}/logs:/var/opt/simplex:rw"
+    published_ports:
+      - 5223:5223/tcp
diff --git a/roles/os_config/tasks/firewall.yml b/roles/os_config/tasks/firewall.yml
index 53d5ea6..660bc23 100644
--- a/roles/os_config/tasks/firewall.yml
+++ b/roles/os_config/tasks/firewall.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     - port: '22'     # SSH
     - port: '80'     # HTTP
     - port: '443'    # HTTPS
+    - port: '5223'   # SimpleXMQ
     - port: '18080'  # monerod P2P
     - port: '18089'  # monerod RPC
     - port: '51820'  # Wireguard