diff --git a/apps/rabbitmq-cluster/base/rabbitmq.yaml b/apps/rabbitmq-cluster/base/rabbitmq.yaml
index 374d525..8aaa01c 100644
--- a/apps/rabbitmq-cluster/base/rabbitmq.yaml
+++ b/apps/rabbitmq-cluster/base/rabbitmq.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ spec:
   replicas: 1 # We'll want to bump this up to 3 if we're using this for customer-facing production loads
   resources:
     requests:
-      cpu: 1000m # This should be at least 2000m for customer-facing production loads; example had it as 4000m
+      cpu: 500m # This should be at least 2000m for customer-facing production loads; example had it as 4000m
       memory: 2Gi # Not sure what we need here; example had it as 10Gi
     limits:
       cpu: 1000m