Overview of Kafka to BigQuery Dataflow Flex Template
mainThis sample demonstrates how to deploy an Apache Beam streaming pipeline using Dataflow Flex Templates. The pipeline reads JSON-encoded messages from an Apache Kafka topic, decodes them, and writes the processed data into a BigQuery table.
The architecture consists of two main components:
- Kafka Server: A containerized server accessible via an external IP address that publishes messages to a topic.
- Apache Beam Pipeline: A Dataflow Flex Template that subscribes to the Kafka topic, consumes messages, and writes them to BigQuery.