Kubeblocks Engine Rabbitmq

RabbitMQ Engine Entry

Use this as the primary create-time entry for RabbitMQ. Tier-1 RabbitMQ never falls back to kubeblocks-engine-generic.

Cold-Start Contract

• Run kubeblocks-preflight whenever the environment is not already profiled.
• Treat engine-create-matrix as the create-time truth for topology, version strategy, sizing, validation, next hops, and forbidden routes.
• Use observability-capability-matrix before promising scrape readiness.
• Keep the legacy kubeblocks-addon-rabbitmq path as preserved detail only, not as the primary cold-start route.

Topology Selection

• Default topology: cluster
• cluster: the only supported Tier-1 create shape in the current truth; scale the replica count instead of inventing a separate single-node path.
• Keep quorum-queue semantics in mind and favor odd replica counts when the cluster is meant to survive member failure.

ServiceVersion / Version Strategy

• Strategy: use the stable addon default from current examples unless the user explicitly pins a serviceVersion
• Current addon evidence surfaces RabbitMQ 3.8 through 3.13, with the shipped examples anchored on addon-backed defaults.
• If the user asks for "latest", stay on a supported addon line instead of a raw upstream tag.

Preflight Interpretation

• storage_class: required before apply because RabbitMQ queue data persists on PVCs.
• volume_binding_mode: confirm placement behavior before multi-member rollout.
• addon_readiness: RabbitMQ addon must be installed first.
• observability_mode: RabbitMQ has exporter and scrape evidence, so choose existing-stack vs bootstrap before rollout.

Sizing Profiles

• demo: a small cluster for AMQP validation or developer testing.
• production: cluster with odd replica counts, persistent storage, and clear exposure requirements for AMQP and management UI.
• Do not present an even-sized production cluster as the safe default for quorum queues.

Minimal Create Path

apiVersion: apps.kubeblocks.io/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: <cluster>
  namespace: <ns>
spec:
  terminationPolicy: Delete

• Do not leave this skill to read raw addon examples before drafting the manifest.
• Keep one name: rabbitmq component, use componentDef: rabbitmq, and set serviceVersion, replicas: 3, resources, and volumeClaimTemplates on that component.
• Validate with kubectl apply --dry-run=server -f <rabbitmq-cluster.yaml>.
• Apply with kubectl apply -f <rabbitmq-cluster.yaml>.
• Watch kubectl get cluster <name> -n <ns> -w until the phase is Running.

Connection and Validation

• Supported connection methods: in-cluster service, port-forward, exposed service
• First validation step: kubectl get cluster <name> -n <ns> and wait for Running.
• Default validation: port-forward the management service and check cluster status before handing the endpoint to application teams.
• If the user needs AMQP access, validate both the broker path and the management/UI path.

Next Hops

• Day-2 operations currently route to kubeblocks-op-lifecycle, kubeblocks-op-horizontal-scale, kubeblocks-op-reconfigure, and kubeblocks-observability-router.
• Treat credential and TLS work as engine-specific validation rather than assuming kubeblocks-manage-accounts or kubeblocks-configure-tls are default RabbitMQ paths.
• Do not send this path to kubeblocks-rebuild-replica; RabbitMQ recovery should stay on cluster repair or troubleshoot paths.
• Route unhealthy quorum behavior, peer discovery failures, or management-plane issues to kubeblocks-troubleshoot.

Forbidden Routes

• Never route RabbitMQ create through kubeblocks-engine-generic, kubeblocks-family-streaming, kubeblocks-addon-rabbitmq, kubeblocks-engine-kafka, or kubeblocks-engine-pulsar.
• If the request is really log-streaming Kafka or Pulsar semantics, switch engines before apply.

Evidence Anchors

• Use the evidence anchors below only as optional secondary evidence and parity checks after the manifest is already drafted here. A cold-start runtime should not need these files, but a stronger agent may inspect them when available.
• Current addon evidence: examples/rabbitmq/cluster.yaml.
• There is no separate legacy reference file for this engine in the current repository snapshot.