When one service hands work to another, it may need to wait safely until the receiving service can process it. RabbitMQ is a message broker that routes and queues those messages, separating producers from consumers. It supports applications that need asynchronous work, buffering and controlled delivery behavior. Reliability depends on queue types, persistence, acknowledgements and client retries. On Kubernetes, operators can manage the brokers and messaging configuration, but those application-level delivery choices still need to be made explicitly.
Current guidance
This record identifies RabbitMQ, the message broker, rather than the separately deprecated rabbitmq-ha chart. The RabbitMQ team documents two Kubernetes operators: Cluster Operator for broker clusters and Messaging Topology Operator for objects such as users, virtual hosts and queues. Their custom resources provide a current operating model but do not automatically adopt an arbitrary historical Helm release.
Choose a supported broker/operator combination and queue types for the application’s delivery requirements. Account for persistent storage, failure domains, TLS, authentication and client reconnection. Upstream notes that upgrading the operator does not automatically rewrite existing cluster specifications to the newest broker or defaults; version ownership remains an explicit operational decision.
Before migration, inventory plugins, topology, policies, credentials, queue contents and publisher/consumer semantics. Rehearse moving or draining messages with a representative workload, verify acknowledgements and redelivery, and define the point after which rollback needs data reconciliation. Keep secret changes synchronized with broker state rather than deleting and recreating Secrets blindly. No broker migration, failover or recovery test is claimed by this advisory.
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RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). This chart bootstraps a RabbitMQ deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.
RabbitMQ is the most widely deployed open source message broker.
With more than 35,000 production deployments of RabbitMQ world-wide at small startups and large enterprises, RabbitMQ is the most popular open source message broker.
RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on-premises and in the cloud. It supports multiple messaging protocols. RabbitMQ can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements.
RabbitMQ runs on many operating systems and cloud environments and provides a wide range of developer tools for most popular languages.
Prerequisites
- Kubernetes 1.8+
- PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
RabbitMQ Features
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Asynchronous Messaging
Supports multiple messaging protocols, message queuing, delivery acknowledgment, flexible routing to queues, multiple exchange type.
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Developer Experience
Deploy with BOSH, Chef, Docker, and Puppet. Develop cross-language messaging with favorite programming languages such as: Java, .NET, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, and many others.
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Distributed Deployment
Deploy as clusters for high availability and throughput; federate across multiple availability zones and regions.
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Enterprise & Cloud Ready
Pluggable authentication, authorization, supports TLS and LDAP. Lightweight and easy to deploy in public and private clouds.
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Tools & Plugins
The diverse array of tools and plugins supporting continuous integration, operational metrics, and integration to other enterprise systems. Flexible plug-in approach for extending RabbitMQ functionality.
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Management & Monitoring
HTTP-API, command line tool, and UI for managing and monitoring RabbitMQ.
RabbitMQ Commercial Services
Commercial Distribution
Pivotal Software produces a commercial distribution called Pivotal RabbitMQ, as well as a version that deploys in Pivotal Cloud Foundry. These distributions include all of the features of the open source version, with RabbitMQ for Pivotal Cloud Foundry providing some additional management features. Support agreements are part of the commercial licensing.
Support + Hosting
Pivotal Software provides support for open source RabbitMQ. The following companies provide technical support and/or cloud hosting of open source RabbitMQ: CloudAMQP, Erlang Solutions, Google Cloud Platform. RabbitMQ can also be deployed in AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Training
The following companies provide free, virtual, or instructor-led courses for RabbitMQ: Pivotal Software, Erlang Solutions, NetCom Learning, Skills Matter, LearnQuest and Open Source Architect.
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