RabbitMQ cluster-operator does not work in Kubernetes - kubernetes

Question

RabbitMQ cluster operator does not work in Kubernetes.
I have a kubernetes cluster 1.17.17 of 3 nodes. I deployed it with a rancher.
According to this instruction I installed RabbitMQ cluster-operator:
https://www.rabbitmq.com/kubernetes/operator/quickstart-operator.html
kubectl apply -f "https://github.com/rabbitmq/cluster-operator/releases/latest/download/cluster-operator.yml"
Its ok! but..
I have created this very simple configuration for the instance according to the documentation:
apiVersion: rabbitmq.com/v1beta1
kind: RabbitmqCluster
metadata:
name: rabbitmq
namespace: test-rabbitmq
I have error:error while running "VolumeBinding" filter plugin for pod "rabbitmq-server-0": pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims
after that i checked:
kubectl get storageclasses
and saw that there were no resources! I added the following storegeclasses:
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: local-storage
provisioner: kubernetes.io/no-provisioner
volumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumer
create pv and pvc:
kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: rabbitmq-data-sigma
labels:
type: local
namespace: test-rabbitmq
annotations:
volume.alpha.kubernetes.io/storage-class: rabbitmq-data-sigma
spec:
storageClassName: local-storage
capacity:
storage: 3Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Recycle
hostPath:
path: "/opt/rabbitmq-data-sigma"
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: rabbitmq-data
namespace: test-rabbitmq
spec:
storageClassName: local-storage
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 3Gi
I end up getting an error in the volume - which is being generated automated:
FailedBinding no persistent volumes available for this claim and no storage class is set
please help to understand this problem!

Answer 1

You can configure Dynamic Volume Provisioning e.g. Dynamic NFS provisioning as describe in this article or you can manually create PersistentVolume ( it is NOT recommended approach).
I really recommend you to configure dynamic provisioning -
this will allow you to generate PersistentVolumes automatically.
Manually creating PersistentVolume
As I mentioned it isn't recommended approach but it may be useful when we want to check something quickly without configuring additional components.
First you need to create PersistentVolume:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: pv
spec:
capacity:
storage: 10Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Recycle
hostPath:
path: /mnt/rabbitmq # data will be stored in the "/mnt/rabbitmq" directory on the worker node
type: Directory
And then create the /mnt/rabbitmq directory on the node where the rabbitmq-server-0 Pod will be running. In your case you have 3 worker node so it may difficult to determine where the Pod will be running.
As a result you can see that the PersistentVolumeClaim was bound to the newly created PersistentVolume and the rabbitmq-server-0 Pod was created successfully:
# kubectl get pv,pvc -A
NAME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES RECLAIM POLICY STATUS CLAIM STORAGECLASS REASON AGE
persistentvolume/pv 10Gi RWO Recycle Bound test-rabbitmq/persistence-rabbitmq-server-0 11m
NAMESPACE NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE
test-rabbitmq persistentvolumeclaim/persistence-rabbitmq-server-0 Bound pv 10Gi RWO 11m
# kubectl get pod -n test-rabbitmq
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
rabbitmq-server-0 1/1 Running 0 11m