VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes is one of the VMware's commercial RabbitMQ offerings. It is a cloud native messaging and streaming service that you can deploy on any Kubernetes cluster. As a control plane for multi-rabbitMQ deployments in multi-cloud locations, VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes provides an easy, automated way to deploy and manage RabbitMQ brokers for reliable event and message distribution in these multi-cloud locations. Note, VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes was formerly known as VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ for Kubernetes.

It is a curated version built on the popular Open Source RabbitMQ messaging and streaming solution and further enhanced by VMware’s RabbitMQ engineering experts.

With VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, developers can now manage their messaging systems virtually anywhere, leveraging simple and fast deployment to Kubernetes, low levels of DevOps maintenance, and access to the Kubernetes ecosystem for logging, monitoring, and tracking.

Welcome to this VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes version X.X HTML documentation set. This documentation set contains updates for all 1.X.X releases. Go to How to use VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes VX.X Documentation to find out more about using this information to help you use the VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes version that you are running.

VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes Architecture

The product includes the following main components:

• VMware RabbitMQ OCI - This container image includes RabbitMQ, the Erlang runtime and other dependencies as well as commercial plugins
• VMware RabbitMQ Kubernetes Operators and sidecar containers - This layer provides the control plane to create and manage RabbitMQ deployments with ease and zero downtime.

What can VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes do?

When VMware RabbitMQ is deploying a RabbitMQ cluster it also creates a Kubernetes service that allows other pods to use the cluster without the need for additional load balancer. If you want to expose the RabbitMQ cluster to applications outside the Kubernetes cluster, VMware RabbitMQ configures this service to have a routable endpoint on the Kubernetes external load balancer.

VMware RabbitMQ does not stop at cluster lifecycle management, you can also create and manage messaging topologies on the cluster and across clusters using Kubernetes API.

Why use VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes?

• Enterprise messaging on-demand virtually anywhere
• Popular features include Warm Standby Replication, which is an automated disaster recovery solution with continuous schema definition and message replication to a remote cluster and the Intra-cluster Compression feature for data compression and cost saving.
• Expert knowledge codified in an operator (VMware RabbitMQ Operator)
• Rapid, self-service provisioning wherever Kubernetes is deployed
• Safe for production: In combination with the VMware RabbitMQ Open Container Initiative (OCI) image, VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes allows developers to provision clusters with production-safe defaults. It also provides production manifest examples for many configurations.
• Rolling Upgrades Made Easier - Rolling upgrades of a running deployment can be completed by simply updating the Kubernetes deployment manifest.
• Security: Security is a major concern in both cloud and shared infrastructure environments. VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes helps developers secure their applications for zero-trust configurations with a variety of measures:
  • RabbitMQ OCI images based off the lightweight Photon OS, for minimal surface area of attack
  • Ability to configure both single and mutual TLS between RabbitMQ nodes and clients
  • Artifacts are automatically scanned for vulnerabilities and dependencies are updated in new image
• Supported by VMware Experts: VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes was created by VMware experts with years of experience deploying it in enterprise environments in order to make going to production safer and easier.

How to use VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes VX.X Documentation

The VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes X.X HTML documentation set reflects the latest update release of each VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes version. What does this mean? The VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes version X.X HTML documentation set contains updates for all 1.x.x releases. Here, "1" is the major release, "x" is the minor release, and "x" is the maintenance release. Updates for maintenance releases (denoted by "x" in 1.x.x) are not highlighted specifically in the X.X documentation set, these updates are added throughout the documentation set.

For detailed information about what is included in a specific version of VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, down to the maintenance release level, the VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes Release Notes is the recommend place to go first. The release notes include detailed information about the latest released features, functions, and packages included in the VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes version that you are running.

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