Create two Amazon Kinesis data streams Write Sample Records to the Input Stream Download and examine the Apache Flink streaming Java code Compile the application code Upload the Apache Flink streaming Java code Create and run the Managed Service for Apache Flink application

Create and run a Managed Service for Apache Flink application

In this exercise, you create a Managed Service for Apache Flink application with data streams as a source and a sink.

This section contains the following steps:

Create two Amazon Kinesis data streams
Write Sample Records to the Input Stream
Download and examine the Apache Flink streaming Java code
Compile the application code
Upload the Apache Flink streaming Java code
Create and run the Managed Service for Apache Flink application

Create two Amazon Kinesis data streams

Before you create a Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink for this exercise, create two Kinesis data streams (ExampleInputStream and ExampleOutputStream). Your application uses these streams for the application source and destination streams.

You can create these streams using either the Amazon Kinesis console or the following AWS CLI command. For console instructions, see Creating and Updating Data Streams.

To create the data streams (AWS CLI)

To create the first stream (ExampleInputStream), use the following Amazon Kinesis create-stream AWS CLI command.
```
$ aws kinesis create-stream \
--stream-name ExampleInputStream \
--shard-count 1 \
--region us-west-2 \
--profile adminuser
```
To create the second stream that the application uses to write output, run the same command, changing the stream name to ExampleOutputStream.
```
$ aws kinesis create-stream \
--stream-name ExampleOutputStream \
--shard-count 1 \
--region us-west-2 \
--profile adminuser
```

Write Sample Records to the Input Stream

In this section, you use a Python script to write sample records to the stream for the application to process.

Note

This section requires the AWS SDK for Python (Boto).

Create a file named stock.py with the following contents:


 
import datetime
import json
import random
import boto3

STREAM_NAME = "ExampleInputStream"


def get_data():
    return {
        "EVENT_TIME": datetime.datetime.now().isoformat(),
        "TICKER": random.choice(["AAPL", "AMZN", "MSFT", "INTC", "TBV"]),
        "PRICE": round(random.random() * 100, 2),
    }


def generate(stream_name, kinesis_client):
    while True:
        data = get_data()
        print(data)
        kinesis_client.put_record(
            StreamName=stream_name, Data=json.dumps(data), PartitionKey="partitionkey"
        )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    generate(STREAM_NAME, boto3.client("kinesis"))

Later in the tutorial, you run the stock.py script to send data to the application.
```
$ python stock.py
```

Download and examine the Apache Flink streaming Java code

The Java application code for this examples is available from GitHub. To download the application code, do the following:

Clone the remote repository with the following command:


git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-kinesis-data-analytics-java-examples.git

Navigate to the GettingStarted directory.

The application code is located in the CustomSinkStreamingJob.java and CloudWatchLogSink.java files. Note the following about the application code:

The application uses a Kinesis source to read from the source stream. The following snippet creates the Kinesis sink:
```
return env.addSource(new FlinkKinesisConsumer<>(inputStreamName,
                new SimpleStringSchema(), inputProperties));
```

Compile the application code

In this section, you use the Apache Maven compiler to create the Java code for the application. For information about installing Apache Maven and the Java Development Kit (JDK), see Prerequisites for completing the exercises.

Your Java application requires the following components:

A Project Object Model (pom.xml) file. This file contains information about the application's configuration and dependencies, including the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink libraries.
A main method that contains the application's logic.

Note

To use the Kinesis connector for the following application, you must download the source code for the connector and build it as described in the Apache Flink documentation.

To create and compile the application code

Create a Java/Maven application in your development environment. For information about creating an application, see the documentation for your development environment:
- Creating your first Java project (Eclipse Java Neon)
- Creating, Running and Packaging Your First Java Application (IntelliJ Idea)

Use the following code for a file named StreamingJob.java.


 
package com.amazonaws.services.kinesisanalytics;

import com.amazonaws.services.kinesisanalytics.runtime.KinesisAnalyticsRuntime;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.serialization.SimpleStringSchema;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStream;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.FlinkKinesisConsumer;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.FlinkKinesisProducer;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.config.ConsumerConfigConstants;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;

public class StreamingJob {

    private static final String region = "us-east-1";
    private static final String inputStreamName = "ExampleInputStream";
    private static final String outputStreamName = "ExampleOutputStream";

    private static DataStream<String> createSourceFromStaticConfig(StreamExecutionEnvironment env) {
        Properties inputProperties = new Properties();
        inputProperties.setProperty(ConsumerConfigConstants.AWS_REGION, region);
        inputProperties.setProperty(ConsumerConfigConstants.STREAM_INITIAL_POSITION, "LATEST");

        return env.addSource(new FlinkKinesisConsumer<>(inputStreamName, new SimpleStringSchema(), inputProperties));
    }

    private static DataStream<String> createSourceFromApplicationProperties(StreamExecutionEnvironment env)
            throws IOException {
        Map<String, Properties> applicationProperties = KinesisAnalyticsRuntime.getApplicationProperties();
        return env.addSource(new FlinkKinesisConsumer<>(inputStreamName, new SimpleStringSchema(),
                applicationProperties.get("ConsumerConfigProperties")));
    }

    private static FlinkKinesisProducer<String> createSinkFromStaticConfig() {
        Properties outputProperties = new Properties();
        outputProperties.setProperty(ConsumerConfigConstants.AWS_REGION, region);
        outputProperties.setProperty("AggregationEnabled", "false");

        FlinkKinesisProducer<String> sink = new FlinkKinesisProducer<>(new SimpleStringSchema(), outputProperties);
        sink.setDefaultStream(outputStreamName);
        sink.setDefaultPartition("0");
        return sink;
    }

    private static FlinkKinesisProducer<String> createSinkFromApplicationProperties() throws IOException {
        Map<String, Properties> applicationProperties = KinesisAnalyticsRuntime.getApplicationProperties();
        FlinkKinesisProducer<String> sink = new FlinkKinesisProducer<>(new SimpleStringSchema(),
                applicationProperties.get("ProducerConfigProperties"));

        sink.setDefaultStream(outputStreamName);
        sink.setDefaultPartition("0");
        return sink;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // set up the streaming execution environment
        final StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();

        /*
         * if you would like to use runtime configuration properties, uncomment the
         * lines below
         * DataStream<String> input = createSourceFromApplicationProperties(env);
         */

        DataStream<String> input = createSourceFromStaticConfig(env);

        /*
         * if you would like to use runtime configuration properties, uncomment the
         * lines below
         * input.addSink(createSinkFromApplicationProperties())
         */

        input.addSink(createSinkFromStaticConfig());

        env.execute("Flink Streaming Java API Skeleton");
    }
}

Note the following about the preceding code example:

This file contains the main method that defines the application's functionality.
Your application creates source and sink connectors to access external resources using a StreamExecutionEnvironment object.
The application creates source and sink connectors using static properties. To use dynamic application properties, use the createSourceFromApplicationProperties and createSinkFromApplicationProperties methods to create the connectors. These methods read the application's properties to configure the connectors.

To use your application code, you compile and package it into a JAR file. You can compile and package your code in one of two ways:
- Use the command line Maven tool. Create your JAR file by running the following command in the directory that contains the pom.xml file:
```
mvn package
```
- Use your development environment. See your development environment documentation for details.
You can either upload your package as a JAR file, or you can compress your package and upload it as a ZIP file. If you create your application using the AWS CLI, you specify your code content type (JAR or ZIP).
If there are errors while compiling, verify that your JAVA_HOME environment variable is correctly set.

If the application compiles successfully, the following file is created:

target/java-getting-started-1.0.jar

Upload the Apache Flink streaming Java code

In this section, you create an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and upload your application code.

To upload the application code

Open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/.
Choose Create bucket.
Enter ka-app-code-<username> in the Bucket name field. Add a suffix to the bucket name, such as your user name, to make it globally unique. Choose Next.
In the Configure options step, keep the settings as they are, and choose Next.
In the Set permissions step, keep the settings as they are, and choose Next.
Choose Create bucket.
In the Amazon S3 console, choose the ka-app-code-<username> bucket, and choose Upload.
In the Select files step, choose Add files. Navigate to the java-getting-started-1.0.jar file that you created in the previous step. Choose Next.
In the Set permissions step, keep the settings as they are. Choose Next.
In the Set properties step, keep the settings as they are. Choose Upload.

Your application code is now stored in an Amazon S3 bucket where your application can access it.

Create and run the Managed Service for Apache Flink application

You can create and run a Managed Service for Apache Flink application using either the console or the AWS CLI.

Note

When you create the application using the console, your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Amazon CloudWatch Logs resources are created for you. When you create the application using the AWS CLI, you create these resources separately.

Create and run the application (Console)

Follow these steps to create, configure, update, and run the application using the console.

Create the application

Open the Kinesis console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis.
On the Amazon Kinesis dashboard, choose Create analytics application.
On the Kinesis Analytics - Create application page, provide the application details as follows:
- For Application name, enter MyApplication.
- For Description, enter My java test app.
- For Runtime, choose Apache Flink 1.6.
For Access permissions, choose Create / update IAM role kinesis-analytics-MyApplication-us-west-2.
Choose Create application.

Note

When you create an Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application using the console, you have the option of having an IAM role and policy created for your application. Your application uses this role and policy to access its dependent resources. These IAM resources are named using your application name and Region as follows:

Policy: kinesis-analytics-service-MyApplication-us-west-2
Role: kinesis-analytics-MyApplication-us-west-2

Edit the IAM policy

Edit the IAM policy to add permissions to access the Kinesis data streams.

Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
Choose Policies. Choose the kinesis-analytics-service-MyApplication-us-west-2 policy that the console created for you in the previous section.
On the Summary page, choose Edit policy. Choose the JSON tab.

Add the highlighted section of the following policy example to the policy. Replace the sample account IDs (012345678901) with your account ID.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ReadCode",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:GetObjectVersion"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::ka-app-code-username/java-getting-started-1.0.jar"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "ListCloudwatchLogGroups",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:012345678901:log-group:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "ListCloudwatchLogStreams",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:DescribeLogStreams"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:012345678901:log-group:/aws/kinesis-analytics/MyApplication:log-stream:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "PutCloudwatchLogs",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:PutLogEvents"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:012345678901:log-group:/aws/kinesis-analytics/MyApplication:log-stream:kinesis-analytics-log-stream"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "ReadInputStream",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kinesis:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:012345678901:stream/ExampleInputStream"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "WriteOutputStream",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kinesis:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:012345678901:stream/ExampleOutputStream"
        }
    ]
}

Configure the application

On the MyApplication page, choose Configure.
On the Configure application page, provide the Code location:
- For Amazon S3 bucket, enter ka-app-code-<username>.
- For Path to Amazon S3 object, enter java-getting-started-1.0.jar.
Under Access to application resources, for Access permissions, choose Create / update IAM role kinesis-analytics-MyApplication-us-west-2.
Under Properties, for Group ID, enter ProducerConfigProperties.

Enter the following application properties and values:

Key	Value
`flink.inputstream.initpos`	`LATEST`
`aws:region`	`us-west-2`
`AggregationEnabled`	`false`

Under Monitoring, ensure that the Monitoring metrics level is set to Application.
For CloudWatch logging, select the Enable check box.
Choose Update.

Note

When you choose to enable CloudWatch logging, Managed Service for Apache Flink creates a log group and log stream for you. The names of these resources are as follows:

Log group: /aws/kinesis-analytics/MyApplication
Log stream: kinesis-analytics-log-stream

Run the application

On the MyApplication page, choose Run. Confirm the action.
When the application is running, refresh the page. The console shows the Application graph.

Stop the application

On the MyApplication page, choose Stop. Confirm the action.

Update the application

Using the console, you can update application settings such as application properties, monitoring settings, and the location or file name of the application JAR. You can also reload the application JAR from the Amazon S3 bucket if you need to update the application code.

On the MyApplication page, choose Configure. Update the application settings and choose Update.

Create and run the application (AWS CLI)

In this section, you use the AWS CLI to create and run the Managed Service for Apache Flink application. Managed Service for Apache Flink uses the kinesisanalyticsv2 AWS CLI command to create and interact with Managed Service for Apache Flink applications.

Create a Permissions Policy

First, you create a permissions policy with two statements: one that grants permissions for the read action on the source stream, and another that grants permissions for write actions on the sink stream. You then attach the policy to an IAM role (which you create in the next section). Thus, when Managed Service for Apache Flink assumes the role, the service has the necessary permissions to read from the source stream and write to the sink stream.

Use the following code to create the KAReadSourceStreamWriteSinkStream permissions policy. Replace username with the user name that you used to create the Amazon S3 bucket to store the application code. Replace the account ID in the Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) (012345678901) with your account ID.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "S3",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:GetObjectVersion"
            ],
            "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::ka-app-code-username",
                "arn:aws:s3:::ka-app-code-username/*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "ReadInputStream",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kinesis:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:012345678901:stream/ExampleInputStream"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "WriteOutputStream",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kinesis:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:012345678901:stream/ExampleOutputStream"
        }
    ]
}

For step-by-step instructions to create a permissions policy, see Tutorial: Create and Attach Your First Customer Managed Policy in the IAM User Guide.

Note

To access other AWS services, you can use the AWS SDK for Java. Managed Service for Apache Flink automatically sets the credentials required by the SDK to those of the service execution IAM role that is associated with your application. No additional steps are needed.

Create an IAM Role

In this section, you create an IAM role that Managed Service for Apache Flink can assume to read a source stream and write to the sink stream.

Managed Service for Apache Flink cannot access your stream without permissions. You grant these permissions via an IAM role. Each IAM role has two policies attached. The trust policy grants Managed Service for Apache Flink permission to assume the role, and the permissions policy determines what Managed Service for Apache Flink can do after assuming the role.

You attach the permissions policy that you created in the preceding section to this role.

To create an IAM role

Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
In the navigation pane, choose Roles, Create Role.
Under Select type of trusted identity, choose AWS Service. Under Choose the service that will use this role, choose Kinesis. Under Select your use case, choose Kinesis Analytics.

Choose Next: Permissions.
On the Attach permissions policies page, choose Next: Review. You attach permissions policies after you create the role.
On the Create role page, enter KA-stream-rw-role for the Role name. Choose Create role.

Now you have created a new IAM role called KA-stream-rw-role. Next, you update the trust and permissions policies for the role.
Attach the permissions policy to the role.

Note
For this exercise, Managed Service for Apache Flink assumes this role for both reading data from a Kinesis data stream (source) and writing output to another Kinesis data stream. So you attach the policy that you created in the previous step, Create a Permissions Policy.
1. On the Summary page, choose the Permissions tab.
2. Choose Attach Policies.
3. In the search box, enter KAReadSourceStreamWriteSinkStream (the policy that you created in the previous section).
4. Choose the KAReadInputStreamWriteOutputStream policy, and choose Attach policy.

You now have created the service execution role that your application uses to access resources. Make a note of the ARN of the new role.

For step-by-step instructions for creating a role, see Creating an IAM Role (Console) in the IAM User Guide.

Create the Managed Service for Apache Flink Application

Save the following JSON code to a file named create_request.json. Replace the sample role ARN with the ARN for the role that you created previously. Replace the bucket ARN suffix (username) with the suffix that you chose in the previous section. Replace the sample account ID (012345678901) in the service execution role with your account ID.


{
    "ApplicationName": "test",
    "ApplicationDescription": "my java test app",
    "RuntimeEnvironment": "FLINK-1_6",
    "ServiceExecutionRole": "arn:aws:iam::012345678901:role/KA-stream-rw-role",
    "ApplicationConfiguration": {
        "ApplicationCodeConfiguration": {
            "CodeContent": {
                "S3ContentLocation": {
                    "BucketARN": "arn:aws:s3:::ka-app-code-username",
                    "FileKey": "java-getting-started-1.0.jar"
                }
            },
            "CodeContentType": "ZIPFILE"
        },
        "EnvironmentProperties":  { 
         "PropertyGroups": [ 
            { 
               "PropertyGroupId": "ProducerConfigProperties",
               "PropertyMap" : {
                    "flink.stream.initpos" : "LATEST",
                    "aws.region" : "us-west-2",
                    "AggregationEnabled" : "false"
               }
            },
            { 
               "PropertyGroupId": "ConsumerConfigProperties",
               "PropertyMap" : {
                    "aws.region" : "us-west-2"
               }
            }
         ]
      }
    }
}

Execute the CreateApplication action with the preceding request to create the application:
```
aws kinesisanalyticsv2 create-application --cli-input-json file://create_request.json
```

The application is now created. You start the application in the next step.

Start the Application

In this section, you use the StartApplication action to start the application.

To start the application

Save the following JSON code to a file named start_request.json.


{
    "ApplicationName": "test",
    "RunConfiguration": {
        "ApplicationRestoreConfiguration": { 
         "ApplicationRestoreType": "RESTORE_FROM_LATEST_SNAPSHOT"
         }
    }
}

Execute the StartApplication action with the preceding request to start the application:
```
aws kinesisanalyticsv2 start-application --cli-input-json file://start_request.json
```

The application is now running. You can check the Managed Service for Apache Flink metrics on the Amazon CloudWatch console to verify that the application is working.

Stop the Application

In this section, you use the StopApplication action to stop the application.

To stop the application

Save the following JSON code to a file named stop_request.json.
```
{"ApplicationName": "test"
}
```
Execute the StopApplication action with the following request to stop the application:
```
aws kinesisanalyticsv2 stop-application --cli-input-json file://stop_request.json
```

The application is now stopped.

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