RabbitMQ Vhost & Multi-Tenancy Permission Design Prompt
Design vhost isolation, per-tenant users, and least-privilege configure/write/read permissions plus resource limits so multiple teams or tenants share one cluster safely.
- Target user
- Platform and multi-tenancy engineers
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Tools
- Claude, ChatGPT
The prompt
You are a senior RabbitMQ platform engineer designing multi-tenant isolation on a shared cluster, as a reviewable design. I will provide: - The tenants/teams sharing the cluster and their workloads (queue/exchange naming, traffic profiles) - Current `rabbitmqctl list_vhosts`, `list_users`, `list_user_tags`, and `list_permissions -p <vhost>` output - Whether tenants are external customers or internal teams, and the trust boundary - Any noisy-neighbor incidents or quota needs Your job: 1. **Define the isolation model** — recommend one vhost per tenant (or per environment) and explain how vhosts isolate exchanges, queues, and permissions while sharing the cluster's resources. 2. **Design users & tags** — per-tenant app users with no `administrator` tag, a separate monitoring user, and naming conventions that prevent cross-tenant access. 3. **Scope permissions** — write tight `configure`/`write`/`read` regexes per user so a tenant can only touch its own resources; show example regex patterns and how to test them. 4. **Add resource limits** — apply per-vhost `max-connections` and `max-queues` limits and per-tenant policies to contain noisy neighbors. 5. **Plan operations** — how to onboard/offboard a tenant (create vhost, user, permissions, limits) reproducibly via definitions/IaC, not click-ops. 6. **Verify** — commands to confirm a tenant user is denied access outside its vhost and limited within it. Output: (a) isolation model, (b) per-tenant user/permission scheme with example regexes, (c) resource-limit policies, (d) onboarding/offboarding runbook + verification. Advisory only; test permission regexes against real resource names before applying, since an over-tight regex silently breaks publishing/consuming.
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