KubeMQ Sources
KubeMQ Sources connects external systems and cloud services with KubeMQ message queue broker.
KubeMQ Sources allows us to build a message-based microservices architecture on Kubernetes with minimal efforts and without developing connectivity interfaces between external system such as messaging components (RabbitMQ, Kafka, MQTT) ,REST APIs and KubeMQ message queue broker. In addition, KubeMQ Sources allows migrating legacy systems (together with KubeMQ Targets) to KubeMQ based messaging architecture.
Key Features:
- Runs anywhere - Kubernetes, Cloud, on-prem, anywhere
- Stand-alone - small docker container / binary
- Single Interface - One interface all the services
- API Gateway - Act as an REST Api gateway
- Plug-in Architecture Easy to extend, easy to connect
- Middleware Supports - Logs, Metrics, Retries, and Rate Limiters
- Easy Configuration - simple yaml file builds your topology
KubeMQ Sources building blocks are:
- Binding
- Source
- Target
Binding is a 1:1 connection between Source and Target. Every Binding runs independently.

binding
Source is an external service that provide ingress data to KubeMQ's channels which then later consumed by services connected to KubeMQ server.
Source can be services such HTTP REST Api, Messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, MQTT etc).
KubeMQ Sources integrate each one of the supported sources and ingest data into KubeMQ via Targets.
The target is a KubeMQ connection which send the data from the sources and route them to the appropriate KubeMQ channel for action, and return back a response if needed.
In bindings configuration, KubeMQ Bridges supports middleware setting for each pair of source and target bindings.
These properties contain middleware information settings as follows:
KubeMQ Bridges supports level based logging to console according to as follows:
Property | Description | Possible Values |
log_level | log level setting | "debug","info","error" |
| | "" - indicate no logging on this bindings |
An example for only error level log to console:
bindings:
- name: sample-binding
properties:
log_level: error
sources:
......
KubeMQ Bridges supports Retries' target execution before reporting of error back to the source on failed execution.
Retry middleware settings values:
Property | Description | Possible Values |
retry_attempts | how many retries before giving up on target execution | default - 1, or any int number |
retry_delay_milliseconds | how long to wait between retries in milliseconds | default - 100ms or any int number |
retry_max_jitter_milliseconds | max delay jitter between retries | default - 100ms or any int number |
retry_delay_type | type of retry delay | "back-off" - delay increase on each attempt |
| | "fixed" - fixed time delay |
| | "random" - random time delay |
An example for 3 retries with back-off strategy:
bindings:
- name: sample-binding
properties:
retry_attempts: 3
retry_delay_milliseconds: 1000
retry_max_jitter_milliseconds: 100
retry_delay_type: "back-off"
sources:
......
KubeMQ Sources support a Rate Limiting of target executions.
Rate Limiter middleware settings values:
Property | Description | Possible Values |
rate_per_second | how many executions per second will be allowed | 0 - no limitation |
| | 1 - n integer times per second |
An example for 100 executions per second:
bindings:
- name: sample-binding
properties:
rate_per_second: 100
source:
......
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