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Amazon Kinesis source

This event source acts as a consumer of an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream and forwards all messages it reads after wrapping them in a CloudEvent envelope.

With tmctl:

tmctl create source awskinesis --arn <arn> --auth.credentials.accessKeyID <keyID> --auth.credentials.secretAccessKey <key>

On Kubernetes:

apiVersion: sources.triggermesh.io/v1alpha1
kind: AWSKinesisSource
metadata:
  name: sample
spec:
  arn: arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:123456789012:stream/triggermeshtest

  auth:
    credentials:
      accessKeyID:
        valueFromSecret:
          name: awscreds
          key: aws_access_key_id
      secretAccessKey:
        valueFromSecret:
          name: awscreds
          key: aws_secret_access_key

  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: eventing.triggermesh.io/v1alpha1
      kind: RedisBroker
      name: triggermesh

Alternatively you can use an IAM role for authentication instead of an access key and secret, for Amazon EKS only:

auth:
  iamrole: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/foo

For details on authenticating with AWS, please take a look at our dedicated guide on AWS credentials.

Events produced have the following attributes:

See the Kubernetes object reference for more details.

Prerequisite(s)

  • Kinesis Data Stream
  • Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
  • API Credentials

Kinesis Data Stream

If you don't already have an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, create one by following the instructions at Creating and Updating Data Streams.

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

A fully qualified ARN is required to uniquely identify the Amazon Kinesis Stream.

This ARN can be obtained directly from the overview page of the Kinesis Stream. It typically has the following format:

arn:aws:kinesis:{awsRegion}:{awsAccountId}:stream/{steamName}

Kinesis Data Stream

Alternatively, one can obtain the ARN of a Kinesis Stream by using the AWS CLI. The following command retrieves the information of a stream called triggermeshtest in the us-west-2 region:

$ aws kinesis describe-stream --stream-name triggermeshtest --region us-west-2
{
    "StreamDescription": {
        "StreamARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:123456789012:stream/triggermeshtest",
        "StreamName": "triggermeshtest",
        "StreamStatus": "ACTIVE",
        (...)
    }
}

API Credentials

The TriggerMesh event source for Amazon Kinesis authenticates calls to the AWS API using AWS Access Keys. The page Understanding and getting your AWS credentials contains instructions to create access keys when signed-in either as the root user or as an IAM user. Take note of the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, they will be used to create an instance of the event source.

It is considered a good practice to create dedicated users with restricted privileges in order to programmatically access AWS services. Permissions can be added or revoked granularly for a given IAM user by attaching IAM Policies to it.

As an example, the following policy contains only the permissions required by the TriggerMesh Amazon Kinesis event source to operate:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kinesis:DescribeStream",
                "kinesis:GetShardIterator",
                "kinesis:GetRecords"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:*:*:*"
        }
    ]
}

Creating an IAM user