Deletion of RabbitMQ cluster failing with error "Failed to remove finalizer for deletion"

Products

• VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ

Issue/Introduction

Deletion of RabbitMQ cluster failing with error Failed to remove finalizer for deletion. The RabbitMQ cluster custom resource instance stays in terminating state blocking the namespace deletion.

 

Environment

• Kubernetes Version - v1.31.6
• RabbitMQ Operator Version - v2.6.0

Cause

The Kubernetes Statefulset object that belongs to the cluster could get deleted before deletion label is propagated . This leads to some pods stuck in terminating for a long time.

Resolution

To resolve this upgrade to RabbitMQ K8s operator v2.13 where this problem is mitigated. An improvement in deletion logic was done via PR-1864 along with other improvements to avoid encountering this scenario.