Operator for RabbitMQ

Overview

Status: Pre-alpha! Not for production use! Breaking changes can appear at anytime without notice!

Build Status OSS Lifecycle

Provision and manage RabbitMQ clusters on Kubernetes! This operator currently has the following features:

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You must have a Kubernetes cluster. Standard Pod and Service networking must work.

You must also have a Docker registry that both your development environment and the Kubernetes cluster can access via the CNAME registry.local.tld

The example assumes you have Rook-managed storage deployed. You can read about Rook at https://rook.io/.

Deploying the operator

Use the script deploy-operator.sh to build and push the operator image. At the end you should see a rabbitmq-operator pod spin up in the rabbitmqs namespace.

LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY=registry.local.tld ./scripts/deploy-operator.sh

Deploying a cluster

Apply the example RabbitMQCustomResource. By default, this deploys a cluster with 3 instances in the rabbitmqs namespace.

kubectl apply -f examples/rabbitmq_instance.yaml

Connecting to the cluster

For each cluster, a service called <cluster name>-svc will be created. This is a standard (non-headless) service. Nodes will be added to the relevant Endpoints as soon as their healthcheck returns ok. A cluster named myrabbitmq in namespace rabbitmqs can be internally accessed at myrabbitmq.rabbitmqs.svc.cluster.local. Standard RabbitMQ ports are exposed.

To access a RabbitMQ cluster from outside the Kubernetes cluster, you need to either expose the Rabbit cluster using a NodePort or set createLoadBalancer to true. This will provision a LoadBalancer service with name <cluster-name>-svc-lb (assuming your environment supports it). You can then access your cluster using the LoadBalancer IP and standard RabbitMQ ports.

For more information on Service DNS and routing, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/.

Custom Resource Schema

RabbitMQCustomResource spec - example

Field Type Description
rabbitMQImage string Name of RabbitMQ image
initContainerImage string Name of initContainer image
createLoadBalancer boolean Whether to create a LoadBalancer service
preserveOrphanPVCs boolean When scaling down a cluster, whether to preserve "orphaned" PVCs; this field is optional and defaults to false
replicas number Number of cluster nodes
compute.cpuRequest string CPU request per node, ex: "500m"
compute.memory string Memory request per node, ex: "512Mi"
storage.storageClassName string Storage class to use for persistent storage (immutable)
storage.limit string PersistentVolume size per cluster node (immutable)
clusterSpec.highWatermarkFraction string RabbitMQ high watermark, ex: 0.4

Note: Scaling replicas down is a dangerous operation. The operator does not currently make any safety guarantees when scaling down replicas.

Roadmap

This operator is very much a work-in-progress. Features that we want to implement in the near future include:

Code of Conduct

Operator for RabbitMQ is governed by the Contributor Covenant v 1.4.1.

License

Operator for RabbitMQ is licensed under the Apache 2 License.

Creating a Release

Check the GitHub releases page for the latest version and from that determine the next version to release. On master, create a tag (git tag <the new version>) and push it (git push --tags). release.sh will see the tag is on master and push the new version to DockerHub automatically (via Travis).

Draft a new release, put the tag you just created in the "tag version" box, and copy everything from CHANGELOG.md into the release description.

Finally, add a Bugs, Improvements, and New Features section for the next version.