Chapter 1. Introduction to AMQ Broker on OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.9 is available as a containerized image for use with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9 or 4.10.
AMQ Broker is based on Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. It provides a message broker that is JMS-compliant. After you have set up the initial broker pod, you can quickly deploy duplicates by using OpenShift Container Platform features.
1.1. Version compatibility and support
For details about OpenShift Container Platform image version compatibility, see:
All deployments of AMQ Broker on OpenShift Container Platform now use RHEL 8 based images.
1.2. Unsupported features
Master-slave-based high availability
High availability (HA) achieved by configuring master and slave pairs is not supported. Instead, when pods are scaled down, HA is provided in OpenShift by using the scaledown controller, which enables message migration.
External Clients that connect to a cluster of brokers, either through the OpenShift proxy or by using bind ports, may need to be configured for HA accordingly. In a clustered scenario, a broker will inform certain clients of the addresses of all the broker’s host and port information. Since these are only accessible internally, certain client features either will not work or will need to be disabled.
Client Configuration Core JMS Client
Because external Core Protocol JMS clients do not support HA or any type of failover, the connection factories must be configured with
useTopologyForLoadBalancing=false.AMQP Clients
AMQP clients do not support failover lists
Durable subscriptions in a cluster
When a durable subscription is created, this is represented as a durable queue on the broker to which a client has connected. When a cluster is running within OpenShift the client does not know on which broker the durable subscription queue has been created. If the subscription is durable and the client reconnects there is currently no method for the load balancer to reconnect it to the same node. When this happens, it is possible that the client will connect to a different broker and create a duplicate subscription queue. For this reason, using durable subscriptions with a cluster of brokers is not recommended.
1.3. Document conventions
This document uses the following conventions for the sudo command, file paths, and replaceable values.
The sudo command
In this document, sudo is used for any command that requires root privileges. You should always exercise caution when using sudo, as any changes can affect the entire system.
For more information about using sudo, see The sudo Command.
About the use of file paths in this document
In this document, all file paths are valid for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems (for example, /home/...). If you are using Microsoft Windows, you should use the equivalent Microsoft Windows paths (for example, C:\Users\...).
Replaceable values
This document sometimes uses replaceable values that you must replace with values specific to your environment. Replaceable values are lowercase, enclosed by angle brackets (< >), and are styled using italics and monospace font. Multiple words are separated by underscores (_) .
For example, in the following command, replace <project_name> with your own project name.
$ oc new-project <project_name>