Kubernetes HPA with custom metrics (RabbitMQ and Prometheus)

rabbitmq-consumer-hpa.yaml

apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: rabbitmq-consumer
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: rabbitmq-consumer
  minReplicas: 1
  maxReplicas: 20
  metrics:
    - type: Object
      object:
        metric:
          name: rabbitmq_queue_messages_ready
        describedObject:
          kind: Pod
          name: rabbitmq-server-0
          apiVersion: v1
        target:
          type: Value
          averageValue: 1