Kafka or RabbitMQ with Istio

Does Istio support Kafka or message brokers like RabbitMQ? We are exploring Istio to use it in one of our products. There are not many resources online explaining messaging with Istio.

Can anybody please share details/blogs/links that demonstrate message brokers with Istio?

@darshanlbangre I see no one responded to this thread, but did you ever get more information on this? If so, can you please share?

@blaketastic2

Hi, i’ve just managed to set up rabbitMQ with istio - with mutual TLS aswell (so the rabbit’s MTLS is unnecessary for cluster communication).
Info including helm charts are here:

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Thanks. I will give this a try

Here is another example with RabbitMQ https://github.com/istio/tools/pull/108/files#diff-fcaeffad1728e66f77d20e5b3e2b1bbc

Is your example still valid for Istio 1.3? I’ve tried to reproduce it in our environment, but with no luck

Hi @howardjohn ,
I have istio 1.6.8 version and rmq version 3.7.24. I setup rules as per https://github.com/arielb135/RabbitMQ-with-istio-MTLS. But still rmq cluster does not come up. Each pod fails to discover each other