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  3. Working with Apache Kafka® topics using PySpark jobs

Working with Apache Kafka® topics using PySpark jobs in Yandex Data Processing

Written by
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Updated at May 5, 2025
  • Required paid resources
  • Set up your infrastructure
  • Create PySpark jobs
  • Delete the resources you created

Yandex Data Processing clusters support integration with Managed Service for Apache Kafka® clusters. You can write and read messages to and from Apache Kafka® topics using PySpark jobs. Reading supports both batch processing and stream processing.

To configure integration between Managed Service for Apache Kafka® and Yandex Data Processing clusters:

  1. Set up your infrastructure.
  2. Create PySpark jobs.

If you no longer need the resources you created, delete them.

Required paid resourcesRequired paid resources

The support cost includes:

  • Managed Service for Apache Kafka® cluster fee: Using computing resources allocated to hosts (including ZooKeeper hosts) and disk space (see Apache Kafka® pricing).
  • Yandex Data Processing cluster fee (see Yandex Data Processing pricing).
  • NAT gateway fee (see Virtual Private Cloud pricing).
  • Object Storage bucket fee: Storing data and performing operations with it (see Object Storage pricing).

Set up your infrastructureSet up your infrastructure

Manually
Terraform
  1. Create a cloud network named dataproc-network, without subnets.

  2. Create a subnet named dataproc-subnet-b in the ru-central1-b availability zone.

  3. Set up a NAT gateway for the dataproc-subnet-b subnet.

  4. Create a security group named dataproc-security-group in the dataproc-network network.

  5. Configure the security group.

  6. Create a service account named dataproc-sa with the following roles:

    • storage.viewer
    • storage.uploader
    • dataproc.agent
    • dataproc.user
  7. Create a bucket named dataproc-bucket.

  8. Grant the dataproc-sa service account the FULL_CONTROL permission for dataproc-bucket.

  9. Create a Yandex Data Processing cluster with the following parameters:

    • Cluster name: dataproc-cluster

    • Environment: PRODUCTION

    • Version: 2.1

    • Services:

      • HDFS
      • LIVY
      • SPARK
      • TEZ
      • YARN
    • Service account: dataproc-sa

    • Availability zone: ru-central1-b

    • Bucket name: dataproc-bucket

    • Network: dataproc-network

    • Security groups: dataproc-security-group

    • Subclusters: Master, one subcluster named Data and one subcluster named Compute.

  10. Create a Managed Service for Apache Kafka® cluster with the following parameters:

    • Cluster name: dataproc-kafka
    • Environment: PRODUCTION
    • Version: 3.5
    • Availability zone: ru-central1-b
    • Network: dataproc-network
    • Security groups: dataproc-security-group
    • Subnet: dataproc-subnet-b
  11. Create a Apache Kafka® topic with the following parameters:

    • Name: dataproc-kafka-topic.
    • Number of partitions: 1
    • Replication factor: 1
  12. Create a Apache Kafka® user with the following parameters:

    • Name: user1.
    • Password: password1.
    • Topics the user gets permissions for: * (all topics).
    • Permissions for the topics: ACCESS_ROLE_CONSUMER, ACCESS_ROLE_PRODUCER, and ACCESS_ROLE_ADMIN.
  1. If you do not have Terraform yet, install it.

  2. Get the authentication credentials. You can add them to environment variables or specify them later in the provider configuration file.

  3. Configure and initialize a provider. There is no need to create a provider configuration file manually, you can download it.

  4. Place the configuration file in a separate working directory and specify the parameter values. If you did not add the authentication credentials to environment variables, specify them in the configuration file.

  5. Download the kafka-and-data-proc.tf configuration file to the same working directory.

    This file describes:

    • Network.
    • NAT gateway and route table required for Yandex Data Processing.
    • Subnet.
    • Security group required for the Yandex Data Processing and Managed Service for Apache Kafka® clusters.
    • Service account required for the Yandex Data Processing cluster.
    • Service account for managing the Yandex Object Storage bucket.
    • Yandex Object Storage bucket.
    • Static access key required to grant the service account the required permissions for the bucket.
    • Yandex Data Processing cluster.
    • Managed Service for Apache Kafka® cluster.
    • Apache Kafka® user.
    • Apache Kafka® topic.
  6. Specify the following in the kafka-and-data-proc.tf file:

    • folder_id: Cloud folder ID, same as in the provider settings.
    • dp_ssh_key: Absolute path to the public key for the Yandex Data Processing cluster. To learn more, see Connecting to a Yandex Data Processing host via SSH.
  7. Make sure the Terraform configuration files are correct using this command:

    terraform validate
    

    If there are any errors in the configuration files, Terraform will point them out.

  8. Create the required infrastructure:

    1. Run this command to view the planned changes:

      terraform plan
      

      If you described the configuration correctly, the terminal will display a list of the resources to update and their parameters. This is a verification step that does not apply changes to your resources.

    2. If everything looks correct, apply the changes:

      1. Run this command:

        terraform apply
        
      2. Confirm updating the resources.

      3. Wait for the operation to complete.

    All the required resources will be created in the specified folder. You can check resource availability and their settings in the management console.

Create PySpark jobsCreate PySpark jobs

  1. On a local computer, save the following scripts:

    kafka-write.py

    Script for writing messages to an Apache Kafka® topic:

    #!/usr/bin/env python3
    
    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession, Row
    from pyspark.sql.functions import to_json, col, struct
    
    def main():
       spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("dataproc-kafka-write-app").getOrCreate()
    
       df = spark.createDataFrame([
          Row(msg="Test message #1 from dataproc-cluster"),
          Row(msg="Test message #2 from dataproc-cluster")
       ])
       df = df.select(to_json(struct([col(c).alias(c) for c in df.columns])).alias('value'))
       df.write.format("kafka") \
          .option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", "<host_FQDN>:9091") \
          .option("topic", "dataproc-kafka-topic") \
          .option("kafka.security.protocol", "SASL_SSL") \
          .option("kafka.sasl.mechanism", "SCRAM-SHA-512") \
          .option("kafka.sasl.jaas.config",
                  "org.apache.kafka.common.security.scram.ScramLoginModule required "
                  "username=user1 "
                  "password=password1 "
                  ";") \
          .save()
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
       main()
    
    kafka-read-batch.py

    Script for reading from a topic and batch processing:

    #!/usr/bin/env python3
    
    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession, Row
    from pyspark.sql.functions import to_json, col, struct
    
    def main():
       spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("dataproc-kafka-read-batch-app").getOrCreate()
    
       df = spark.read.format("kafka") \
          .option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", "<host_FQDN>:9091") \
          .option("subscribe", "dataproc-kafka-topic") \
          .option("kafka.security.protocol", "SASL_SSL") \
          .option("kafka.sasl.mechanism", "SCRAM-SHA-512") \
          .option("kafka.sasl.jaas.config",
                  "org.apache.kafka.common.security.scram.ScramLoginModule required "
                  "username=user1 "
                  "password=password1 "
                  ";") \
          .option("startingOffsets", "earliest") \
          .load() \
          .selectExpr("CAST(value AS STRING)") \
          .where(col("value").isNotNull())
    
       df.write.format("text").save("s3a://dataproc-bucket/kafka-read-batch-output")
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
       main()
    
    kafka-read-stream.py

    Script for reading from a topic and stream processing:

    #!/usr/bin/env python3
    
    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession, Row
    from pyspark.sql.functions import to_json, col, struct
    
    def main():
       spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("dataproc-kafka-read-stream-app").getOrCreate()
    
       query = spark.readStream.format("kafka")\
          .option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", "<host_FQDN>:9091") \
          .option("subscribe", "dataproc-kafka-topic") \
          .option("kafka.security.protocol", "SASL_SSL") \
          .option("kafka.sasl.mechanism", "SCRAM-SHA-512") \
          .option("kafka.sasl.jaas.config",
                  "org.apache.kafka.common.security.scram.ScramLoginModule required "
                  "username=user1 "
                  "password=password1 "
                  ";") \
          .option("startingOffsets", "earliest")\
          .load()\
          .selectExpr("CAST(value AS STRING)")\
          .where(col("value").isNotNull())\
          .writeStream\
          .trigger(once=True)\
          .queryName("received_messages")\
          .format("memory")\
          .start()
    
       query.awaitTermination()
    
       df = spark.sql("select value from received_messages")
    
       df.write.format("text").save("s3a://dataproc-bucket/kafka-read-stream-output")
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
       main()
    
  2. Get the Apache Kafka® host FQDN and specify it in each script.

  3. Upload the prepared scripts to the bucket root.

  4. Create a PySpark job for writing a message to the Apache Kafka® topic. In the Main python file field, specify the s3a://dataproc-bucket/kafka-write.py script path.

  5. Wait for the job status to change to Done.

  6. Make sure the data is successfully written to the topic. To do this, create a new PySpark job for reading data from the topic and batch processing. In the Main python file field, specify the s3a://dataproc-bucket/kafka-read-batch.py script path.

  7. Wait for the new job status to change to Done.

  8. Download the file with the read data from the bucket:

    part-00000
    {"msg":"Test message #1 from dataproc-cluster"}
    {"msg":"Test message #2 from dataproc-cluster"}
    

    The file resides in the new folder named kafka-read-batch-output in the bucket.

  9. Read messages from the topic during stream processing. To do this, create another PySpark job. In the Main python file field, specify the s3a://dataproc-bucket/kafka-read-stream.py script path.

  10. Wait for the new job status to change to Done.

  11. Download the files with the read data from the bucket:

    part-00000
    {"msg":"Test message #1 from dataproc-cluster"}
    
    part-00001
    {"msg":"Test message #2 from dataproc-cluster"}
    

    The files reside in the new folder named kafka-read-stream-output in the bucket.

Note

You can view the job logs and search data in them using Yandex Cloud Logging. For more information, see Working with logs.

Delete the resources you createdDelete the resources you created

Some resources are not free of charge. Delete the resources you no longer need to avoid paying for them:

  1. Delete the objects from the bucket.

  2. Delete the other resources depending on how they were created:

    Manually
    Terraform
    1. Yandex Data Processing cluster.
    2. Managed Service for Apache Kafka® cluster.
    3. Bucket.
    4. Security group.
    5. Subnet.
    6. Route table.
    7. NAT gateway.
    8. Network.
    9. Service account.
    1. In the terminal window, go to the directory containing the infrastructure plan.

      Warning

      Make sure the directory has no Terraform manifests with the resources you want to keep. Terraform deletes all resources that were created using the manifests in the current directory.

    2. Delete resources:

      1. Run this command:

        terraform destroy
        
      2. Confirm deleting the resources and wait for the operation to complete.

      All the resources described in the Terraform manifests will be deleted.

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