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To deploy HiveMQ in Kubernetes using Helm you have to download the default values.yaml file from the official GitHub repository (https://github.com/hivemq/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/hivemq-operator/values.yaml) first.
After this you have to edit the file so the HiveMQ Control Center “cc” and the HiveMQ Rest API “api” will not get exposed (expose: false). You also have to uncomment the "api" section as you can see in the following example. With this configuration, the HiveMQ Kubernetes Operator will not create Kubernetes services for those HiveMQ components:
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