Serverless Datalake Example/Framework: The Best Practice of Serverless Datalake Enginerring on AWS Glue/Athena/MWAA(Airflow)/S3

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Update Nodes

1. Original TLC CSV files on S3 are replaced by parquet files. CSV files are moved to a backup folder, so feeder.sh is changed. @2022-11-04
2. A new branch: datahub is ready, add features to support metadata management tool: datahub. @2022-12-21

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1. Build

To build this project, you need have JDK & Maven on your local, and you should also have an AWS account with Admin role.

1. Check out project. Note that If you need run and demo datahub integration feature, please check out datahub branch.
2. Update src/main/profiles/prd.properties, change replace all "<...>" values against your environment.
3. Run maven command under project root dir:

mvn clean package

4. Get serverless-datalake-example-1.0.zip file under target folder.

2. Install

You have 2 ways to get installer package, one is building from source codes just as step above, the other one is downloading directly:

wget https://github.com/bluishglc/serverless-datalake-example/releases/download/v1.0/serverless-datalake-example-1.0-master.zip \
    -O serverless-datalake-example-1.0.zip

Note that If you need run and demo datahub integration feature, please download from datahub release:

wget https://github.com/bluishglc/serverless-datalake-example/releases/download/v1.0/serverless-datalake-example-1.0-datahub.zip \
    -O serverless-datalake-example-1.0.zip

unzip package:

unzip serverless-datalake-example-1.0.zip

then run install command:

./serverless-datalake-example-1.0/bin/install.sh \
    --region <your-aws-region> \
    --app-bucket <your-app-bucket-name> \
    --data-bucket <your-data-bucket-name> \
    --airflow-dags-home s3://<your-airflow-dags-path> \
    --access-key-id '<your-access-key-id>' \
    --secret-access-key '<your-secret-access-key>' \
    --nyc-tlc-access-key-id '<your-global-account-access-key-id>' \
    --nyc-tlc-secret-access-key '<your-global-account-secret-access-key>'

Note: the parameters of cli will overwrite values in prd/dev properties files.

3. Init

This step will create crawlers, jobs, databases and tables.

sdl init

4. Run

There are 2 ways to run, one is by airflow, the other is by cli. for airflow, you must have a running airflow environment, and have a configured ssh connection name ssh_to_client which can connect to current node via ssh, then copy wfl/sdl_monthly_build.py to the dag folder of airflow or assign path to --airflow-dags-home in install command, if all done, you will see a dag named sdl-monthly-build, then you can start it from airflow console page. Or you can run this project via cli immediately as following:

./serverless-datalake-example-1.0/bin/sdl.sh build --year 2020 --month 01

This command will run a full batch of data in 2020/01.

5. Known Issues

When 1.0 relase, it works well on cn and us regions, however, recently, if run on us-east-1 region, there will be an error when run jobs:

Exception in User Class: java.io.IOException : com.amazon.ws.emr.hadoop.fs.shaded.com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.AmazonS3Exception: Access Denied (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDenied ....

It is not caused by IAM or S3 policies, I also checked VPC S3 endpoint, no any problems, so by now, we have not find root cause.

6. Notes

6.1 @2022-11-04

csv https download link is unavailable from May 13, 2022, they are changed to parquet files. so following cli does not work anymore.

wget "https://nyc-tlc.s3.amazonaws.com/trip data/${category}_tripdata_${YEAR}-${MONTH}.csv" -P "/tmp/nyc-tlc/"

although csv backup files are provided as public bucket, cli as following works in aws global regions:

aws s3 cp "s3://nyc-tlc/csv_backup/${category}_tripdata_${YEAR}-${MONTH}.csv" "/tmp/nyc-tlc/"

however, this public bucket does NOT support anonymous access, so for a china region account, it is still inaccessible. at beginning, we created a github repo to store csv files, and download files as following:

wget --tries=10 --timeout=10 "https://github.com/bluishglc/nyc-tlc-data/releases/download/v1.0/${category}_tripdata_${YEAR}-${MONTH}.csv.gz" -P "/tmp/nyc-tlc/"
gzip -d "/tmp/nyc-tlc/${category}_tripdata_${YEAR}-${MONTH}.csv.gz"

however, the network from China to Github is very unstable, downloads often failed, so we have to add 2 parameters:

• --nyc-tlc-access-key-id
• --nyc-tlc-secret-access-key

They are actually AWS global S3 account's AKSK, with this AKSK, the cli can download CSV files from US region to local, then upload to China S3 bucket.