Client connection to RabbitMQ deployed on OpenShift

[andrescolodreroarion]

Hi,
After create the rabbitmq cluster with the operator, i wonder if there is a way to connect to RabbitMQ via https route, or do i need to create nodeport/externals IP for every deployed cluster?

[Zerpet]

I'm far from being an expert in OpenShift, but it looks like you can create a Route [1] to access HTTP/HTTPs traffic (among others). This limits the exposure to only RabbitMQ management UI/API. You should be able to configure a route to select the service that exports the management UI; IIRC, the service that exposes RMQ protocol ports has the same name as your custom resource name.

If you want to expose the AMQP, or other non-http protocol, you probably need a different ingress provider that supports TCP ingress; or expose those protocol ports as NodePort or LoadBalancer type services.

[1] https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.11/architecture/networking/routes.html

[andrescolodrero]

HI,
i ended testing this with MetalLB and creating an AddressPool to the rabbbitMQ service.