Add Apache Kafka benchmark skeleton

PiperOrigin-RevId: 930568061

Author: abhishekshaw21

CHANGES.next.md

@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@
 -   Re-enable support for Rocky Linux 8, 9, and 10 for the Azure provider.
 -   Add Ubuntu 26.04 support for GCP, AWS, and Azure Providers.
 -   Add a kubernetes-native benchmark for MySQL using sysbench
+-   Add `kafka_benchmark` support.
 
 ### Enhancements:
 

perfkitbenchmarker/linux_benchmarks/kafka_benchmark.py

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+# Copyright 2026 PerfKitBenchmarker Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""Runs Apache Kafka benchmarks."""
+
+import concurrent.futures
+from typing import Any, Mapping
+
+from perfkitbenchmarker import benchmark_spec as bm_spec
+from perfkitbenchmarker import configs
+from perfkitbenchmarker import sample
+
+BENCHMARK_NAME = 'kafka'
+BENCHMARK_CONFIG = """
+kafka:
+  description: Runs Apache Kafka benchmarks
+  vm_groups:
+    broker:
+      vm_spec: *default_dual_core
+    producer:
+      vm_spec: *default_dual_core
+    consumer:
+      vm_spec: *default_dual_core
+"""
+
+BENCHMARK_DATA = {}
+KAFKA_VERSION = '2.13-4.2.0'
+KAFKA_TAR = f'kafka_{KAFKA_VERSION}.tgz'
+KAFKA_URL = f'https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/4.2.0/{KAFKA_TAR}'
+
+
+def _InstallKafka(vm):
+  """Installs Kafka on a VM."""
+  vm.InstallPackages('openjdk-17-jdk')
+  vm.Install('build_tools')
+  vm.Install('pip')
+  vm.RemoteCommand(f'wget {KAFKA_URL}')
+  vm.RemoteCommand(f'tar -xzf {KAFKA_TAR}')
+
+
+def GetConfig(user_config: Mapping[Any, Any]) -> Mapping[Any, Any]:
+  """Merge BENCHMARK_CONFIG with user_config to create benchmark_spec.
+
+  Args:
+    user_config: user-defined configs (through FLAGS.benchmark_config_file or
+      FLAGS.config_override).
+
+  Returns:
+    The resulting configs that come from merging user-defined configs with
+    BENCHMARK_CONFIG.
+  """
+  return configs.LoadConfig(BENCHMARK_CONFIG, user_config, BENCHMARK_NAME)
+
+
+def Prepare(benchmark_spec: bm_spec.BenchmarkSpec) -> None:
+  """Prepares VM to run Kafka.
+
+  Args:
+    benchmark_spec: The benchmark specification.
+  """
+  vms = benchmark_spec.vms
+  with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=len(vms)) as executor:
+    executor.map(_InstallKafka, vms)
+
+
+def Run(benchmark_spec: bm_spec.BenchmarkSpec) -> list[sample.Sample]:
+  """Runs Kafka benchmarks."""
+  return []
+
+
+def Cleanup(benchmark_spec: bm_spec.BenchmarkSpec) -> None:
+  """Cleans up the benchmark."""
+  pass