Distributed Stream Processing for AI Applications with AWS MSK

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To set up a distributed stream processing system for AI applications using AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), you will generally need to perform the following steps:

1. **Create an Amazon MSK Cluster**: This serves as the backbone of the distributed streaming system.
2. **Set up compute resources**: These resources will run your AI applications, which will process the streaming data.
3. **Implement the stream processing logic**: This is typically done through a software framework like Apache Flink or Spark, which can run on an EC2 instance or as part of an Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics application.
4. **Ensure proper permissions and security**: Use AWS IAM roles and security groups to control access to the MSK cluster and compute resources.

Pulumi allows you to define all these resources and their relationships in your code using infrastructure as code. Below is a Pulumi Python program that demonstrates how to set up an Amazon MSK cluster for distributed stream processing. Note that in a real-world scenario, you'd also integrate your AI processing logic and potentially use additional AWS services like AWS Lambda or Amazon Kinesis for complementary tasks.

This program will:
- Create a new Amazon MSK Cluster with the required configuration.
- Define the VPC, subnet, and security groups configurations that the MSK cluster will use.
- Set up IAM roles and policies necessary for the MSK cluster and attached resources.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Create a new VPC, provide the CIDR block
vpc = aws.ec2.Vpc("ai-vpc", cidr_block="10.0.0.0/16")

# Create subnet for each availability zone, this example assumes 'us-west-2' region
subnet_ids = []
for az in ["a", "b", "c"]:
    subnet = aws.ec2.Subnet(f"ai-subnet-{az}",
        vpc_id=vpc.id,
        cidr_block=f"10.0.{az}.0/24",
        availability_zone=f"us-west-2{az}")
    subnet_ids.append(subnet.id)

# Create a security group for the MSK cluster
security_group = aws.ec2.SecurityGroup("ai-msk-sg",
    vpc_id=vpc.id,
    description="Allow all TCP to Amazon MSK",
    ingress=[
        # Assuming you want to allow access from certain IPs
        aws.ec2.SecurityGroupIngressArgs(
            description="Allow plaintext broker access",
            from_port=9092,
            to_port=9092,
            protocol="tcp",
            cidr_blocks=["0.0.0.0/0"],
        ),
    ],
)

# IAM role for Amazon MSK Service to access other AWS resources
msk_service_role = aws.iam.Role("ai-msk-role", assume_role_policy="""{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "kafka.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
        }
    ]
}""")

# Amazon MSK Cluster
msk_cluster = aws.msk.Cluster("ai-msk-cluster",
    cluster_name="ai-app-cluster",
    kafka_version="2.6.1",
    number_of_broker_nodes=3,
    broker_node_group_info=aws.msk.ClusterBrokerNodeGroupInfoArgs(
        ebs_volume_size=15,
        instance_type="kafka.m5.large",
        security_groups=[security_group.id],
        client_subnets=subnet_ids
    ),
    tags={
        "Project": "AIApplication"
    },
    encryption_info=aws.msk.ClusterEncryptionInfoArgs(
        encryption_in_transit=aws.msk.ClusterEncryptionInfoEcryptionInTransitArgs(
            client_broker="TLS_PLAINTEXT",
            in_cluster=True
        )
    ))

# Export the MSK Cluster ARN so we can reference it in other resources or outputs
pulumi.export('MSKClusterARN', msk_cluster.arn)
```

Here's what each section of this program does:

1. We define a new AWS VPC where our resources will live.
2. We create subnets for the VPC, one for each availability zone in a region.
3. We set up a security group to control access to the MSK cluster.
4. We define an IAM role to allow our MSK service to interact with other AWS services.
5. We define our Amazon MSK Cluster specifying the broker type, number of broker nodes, version, and storage volume size.
6. Finally, we export the ARN of the AWS MSK Cluster to be referenced later or used as output.

This code provides the infrastructure setup for a distributed stream processing system, assuming your application will later connect to this MSK cluster to produce and consume Kafka streams. You would need to implement your AI application logic separately, but it can be orchestrated and managed using Pulumi, interacting with this and other AWS resources.