Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Construct Library

The APIs of higher level constructs in this module are experimental and under active development. They are subject to non-backward compatible changes or removal in any future version. These are not subject to the Semantic Versioning model and breaking changes will be announced in the release notes. This means that while you may use them, you may need to update your source code when upgrading to a newer version of this package.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.

The following example creates an MSK Cluster.

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
});

Allowing Connections

To control who can access the Cluster, use the .connections attribute. For a list of ports used by MSK, refer to the MSK documentation.

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
});

cluster.connections.allowFrom(
  ec2.Peer.ipv4('1.2.3.4/8'),
  ec2.Port.tcp(2181),
);
cluster.connections.allowFrom(
  ec2.Peer.ipv4('1.2.3.4/8'),
  ec2.Port.tcp(9094),
);

Cluster Endpoints

You can use the following attributes to get a list of the Kafka broker or ZooKeeper node endpoints

declare const cluster: msk.Cluster;
new CfnOutput(this, 'BootstrapBrokers', { value: cluster.bootstrapBrokers });
new CfnOutput(this, 'BootstrapBrokersTls', { value: cluster.bootstrapBrokersTls });
new CfnOutput(this, 'BootstrapBrokersSaslScram', { value: cluster.bootstrapBrokersSaslScram });
new CfnOutput(this, 'BootstrapBrokerStringSaslIam', { value: cluster.bootstrapBrokersSaslIam });
new CfnOutput(this, 'ZookeeperConnection', { value: cluster.zookeeperConnectionString });
new CfnOutput(this, 'ZookeeperConnectionTls', { value: cluster.zookeeperConnectionStringTls });

Importing an existing Cluster

To import an existing MSK cluster into your CDK app use the .fromClusterArn() method.

const cluster = msk.Cluster.fromClusterArn(this, 'Cluster',
  'arn:aws:kafka:us-west-2:1234567890:cluster/a-cluster/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111-1',
);

Client Authentication

MSK supports the following authentication mechanisms.

TLS

To enable client authentication with TLS set the certificateAuthorityArns property to reference your ACM Private CA. More info on Private CAs.

import * as acmpca from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-acmpca';

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
  encryptionInTransit: {
    clientBroker: msk.ClientBrokerEncryption.TLS,
  },
  clientAuthentication: msk.ClientAuthentication.tls({
    certificateAuthorities: [
      acmpca.CertificateAuthority.fromCertificateAuthorityArn(
        this,
        'CertificateAuthority',
        'arn:aws:acm-pca:us-west-2:1234567890:certificate-authority/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111',
      ),
    ],
  }),
});

SASL/SCRAM

Enable client authentication with SASL/SCRAM:

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
  encryptionInTransit: {
    clientBroker: msk.ClientBrokerEncryption.TLS,
  },
  clientAuthentication: msk.ClientAuthentication.sasl({
    scram: true,
  }),
});

SASL/IAM

Enable client authentication with IAM:

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
  encryptionInTransit: {
    clientBroker: msk.ClientBrokerEncryption.TLS,
  },
  clientAuthentication: msk.ClientAuthentication.sasl({
    iam: true,
  }),
});

SASL/IAM + TLS

Enable client authentication with IAM as well as enable client authentication with TLS by setting the certificateAuthorityArns property to reference your ACM Private CA. More info on Private CAs.

import * as acmpca from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-acmpca';

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
  encryptionInTransit: {
    clientBroker: msk.ClientBrokerEncryption.TLS,
  },
  clientAuthentication: msk.ClientAuthentication.saslTls({
    iam: true,
    certificateAuthorities: [
      acmpca.CertificateAuthority.fromCertificateAuthorityArn(
        this,
        'CertificateAuthority',
        'arn:aws:acm-pca:us-west-2:1234567890:certificate-authority/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111',
      ),
    ],
  }),
});

Logging

You can deliver Apache Kafka broker logs to one or more of the following destination types: Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

To configure logs to be sent to an S3 bucket, provide a bucket in the logging config.

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
declare const bucket: s3.IBucket;
const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V2_8_1,
  vpc,
  logging: {
    s3: {
      bucket,
    },
  },
});

When the S3 destination is configured, AWS will automatically create an S3 bucket policy that allows the service to write logs to the bucket. This makes it impossible to later update that bucket policy. To have CDK create the bucket policy so that future updates can be made, the @aws-cdk/aws-s3:createDefaultLoggingPolicy feature flag can be used. This can be set in the cdk.json file.

{
  "context": {
    "@aws-cdk/aws-s3:createDefaultLoggingPolicy": true
  }
}

Storage Mode

You can configure an MSK cluster storage mode using the storageMode property.

Tiered storage is a low-cost storage tier for Amazon MSK that scales to virtually unlimited storage, making it cost-effective to build streaming data applications.

Visit Tiered storage to see the list of compatible Kafka versions and for more details.

declare const vpc: ec2.Vpc;
declare const bucket: s3.IBucket;

const cluster = new msk.Cluster(this, 'cluster', {
  clusterName: 'myCluster',
  kafkaVersion: msk.KafkaVersion.V3_6_0,
  vpc,
  storageMode: msk.StorageMode.TIERED,
});