Create a cluster

How to create a Dataproc cluster

Requirements:

  • Name: The cluster name must start with a lowercase letter followed by up to 51 lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, and cannot end with a hyphen.

  • Cluster region: You must specify a Compute Engine region for the cluster, such as us-east1 or europe-west1, to isolate cluster resources, such as VM instances and cluster metadata stored in Cloud Storage, within the region.

    • See Regional endpoints for more information on regional endpoints.
    • See Available regions & zones for information on selecting a region. You can also run the gcloud compute regions list command to display a listing of available regions.

  • Connectivity: Compute Engine Virtual Machine instances (VMs) in a Dataproc cluster, consisting of master and worker VMs, require full internal IP networking cross connectivity. The default VPC network provides this connectivity (see Dataproc Cluster Network Configuration).

gcloud

To create a Dataproc cluster on the command line, run the gcloud dataproc clusters create command locally in a terminal window or in Cloud Shell.

gcloud dataproc clusters create CLUSTER_NAME \
    --region=REGION

The command creates a cluster with default Dataproc service settings for your master and worker virtual machine instances, disk sizes and types, network type, region and zone where your cluster is deployed, and other cluster settings. See the gcloud dataproc clusters create command for information on using command line flags to customize cluster settings.

Create a cluster with a YAML file

  1. Run the following gcloud command to export the configuration of an existing Dataproc cluster into a cluster.yaml file. 
    gcloud dataproc clusters export EXISTING_CLUSTER_NAME \
    --region=REGION \
    --destination=cluster.yaml
  2. Create a new cluster by importing the YAML file configuration. 
    gcloud dataproc clusters import NEW_CLUSTER_NAME \
    --region=REGION \
    --source=cluster.yaml

Note: During the export operation, cluster-specific fields, such as cluster name, output-only fields, and automatically applied labels are filtered. These fields are disallowed in the imported YAML file used to create a cluster.

REST

This section shows how to create a cluster with required values and the default configuration (1 master, 2 workers).

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

  • CLUSTER_NAME: cluster name
  • PROJECT: Google Cloud project ID
  • REGION: An available Compute Engine region where the cluster will be created.
  • ZONE: An optional zone within the selected region where the cluster will be created.

HTTP method and URL: 

POST https://dataproc.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT/regions/REGION/clusters

Request JSON body: 

{
  "project_id":"PROJECT",
  "cluster_name":"CLUSTER_NAME",
  "config":{
    "master_config":{
      "num_instances":1,
      "machine_type_uri":"n1-standard-2",
      "image_uri":""
    },
    "softwareConfig": {
      "imageVersion": "",
      "properties": {},
      "optionalComponents": []
    },
    "worker_config":{
      "num_instances":2,
      "machine_type_uri":"n1-standard-2",
      "image_uri":""
    },
    "gce_cluster_config":{
      "zone_uri":"ZONE"
    }
  }
}

To send your request, expand one of these options:

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

{
"name": "projects/PROJECT/regions/REGION/operations/b5706e31......",
  "metadata": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.dataproc.v1.ClusterOperationMetadata",
    "clusterName": "CLUSTER_NAME",
    "clusterUuid": "5fe882b2-...",
    "status": {
      "state": "PENDING",
      "innerState": "PENDING",
      "stateStartTime": "2019-11-21T00:37:56.220Z"
    },
    "operationType": "CREATE",
    "description": "Create cluster with 2 workers",
    "warnings": [
      "For PD-Standard without local SSDs, we strongly recommend provisioning 1TB ...""
    ]
  }
}

Console

Open the Dataproc Create a cluster page in the Google Cloud console in your browser, then click Create in the cluster on Compute engine row in the Create a Dataproc cluster on Compute Engine page. The Set up cluster panel is selected with fields filled in with default values. You can select each panel and confirm or change default values to customize your cluster.

Click Create to create the cluster. The cluster name appears in the Clusters page, and its status is updated to Running after the cluster is provisioned. Click the cluster name to open the cluster details page where you can examine jobs, instances, and configuration settings for your cluster and connect to web interfaces running on your cluster.

Go

  1. Install the client library.

  2. Set up application default credentials.

  3. Run the code. 
    import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	dataproc "cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/apiv1"
	"cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/apiv1/dataprocpb"
	"google.golang.org/api/option"
)

func createCluster(w io.Writer, projectID, region, clusterName string) error {
	// projectID := "your-project-id"
	// region := "us-central1"
	// clusterName := "your-cluster"
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Create the cluster client.
	endpoint := region + "-dataproc.googleapis.com:443"
	clusterClient, err := dataproc.NewClusterControllerClient(ctx, option.WithEndpoint(endpoint))
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("dataproc.NewClusterControllerClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer clusterClient.Close()

	// Create the cluster config.
	req := &dataprocpb.CreateClusterRequest{
		ProjectId: projectID,
		Region:    region,
		Cluster: &dataprocpb.Cluster{
			ProjectId:   projectID,
			ClusterName: clusterName,
			Config: &dataprocpb.ClusterConfig{
				MasterConfig: &dataprocpb.InstanceGroupConfig{
					NumInstances:   1,
					MachineTypeUri: "n1-standard-2",
				},
				WorkerConfig: &dataprocpb.InstanceGroupConfig{
					NumInstances:   2,
					MachineTypeUri: "n1-standard-2",
				},
			},
		},
	}

	// Create the cluster.
	op, err := clusterClient.CreateCluster(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("CreateCluster: %w", err)
	}

	resp, err := op.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("CreateCluster.Wait: %w", err)
	}

	// Output a success message.
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Cluster created successfully: %s", resp.ClusterName)
	return nil
}

Java

  1. Install the client library.
  2. Set up application default credentials.
  3. Run the code. 
    import com.google.api.gax.longrunning.OperationFuture;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.Cluster;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.ClusterConfig;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.ClusterControllerClient;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.ClusterControllerSettings;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.ClusterOperationMetadata;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.InstanceGroupConfig;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

public class CreateCluster {

  public static void createCluster() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String region = "your-project-region";
    String clusterName = "your-cluster-name";
    createCluster(projectId, region, clusterName);
  }

  public static void createCluster(String projectId, String region, String clusterName)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    String myEndpoint = String.format("%s-dataproc.googleapis.com:443", region);

    // Configure the settings for the cluster controller client.
    ClusterControllerSettings clusterControllerSettings =
        ClusterControllerSettings.newBuilder().setEndpoint(myEndpoint).build();

    // Create a cluster controller client with the configured settings. The client only needs to be
    // created once and can be reused for multiple requests. Using a try-with-resources
    // closes the client, but this can also be done manually with the .close() method.
    try (ClusterControllerClient clusterControllerClient =
        ClusterControllerClient.create(clusterControllerSettings)) {
      // Configure the settings for our cluster.
      InstanceGroupConfig masterConfig =
          InstanceGroupConfig.newBuilder()
              .setMachineTypeUri("n1-standard-2")
              .setNumInstances(1)
              .build();
      InstanceGroupConfig workerConfig =
          InstanceGroupConfig.newBuilder()
              .setMachineTypeUri("n1-standard-2")
              .setNumInstances(2)
              .build();
      ClusterConfig clusterConfig =
          ClusterConfig.newBuilder()
              .setMasterConfig(masterConfig)
              .setWorkerConfig(workerConfig)
              .build();
      // Create the cluster object with the desired cluster config.
      Cluster cluster =
          Cluster.newBuilder().setClusterName(clusterName).setConfig(clusterConfig).build();

      // Create the Cloud Dataproc cluster.
      OperationFuture<Cluster, ClusterOperationMetadata> createClusterAsyncRequest =
          clusterControllerClient.createClusterAsync(projectId, region, cluster);
      Cluster response = createClusterAsyncRequest.get();

      // Print out a success message.
      System.out.printf("Cluster created successfully: %s", response.getClusterName());

    } catch (ExecutionException e) {
      System.err.println(String.format("Error executing createCluster: %s ", e.getMessage()));
    }
  }
}

Node.js

  1. Install the client library.
  2. Set up application default credentials.
  3. Run the code. 
    const dataproc = require('@google-cloud/dataproc');

// TODO(developer): Uncomment and set the following variables
// projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID'
// region = 'YOUR_CLUSTER_REGION'
// clusterName = 'YOUR_CLUSTER_NAME'

// Create a client with the endpoint set to the desired cluster region
const client = new dataproc.v1.ClusterControllerClient({
  apiEndpoint: `${region}-dataproc.googleapis.com`,
  projectId: projectId,
});

async function createCluster() {
  // Create the cluster config
  const request = {
    projectId: projectId,
    region: region,
    cluster: {
      clusterName: clusterName,
      config: {
        masterConfig: {
          numInstances: 1,
          machineTypeUri: 'n1-standard-2',
        },
        workerConfig: {
          numInstances: 2,
          machineTypeUri: 'n1-standard-2',
        },
      },
    },
  };

  // Create the cluster
  const [operation] = await client.createCluster(request);
  const [response] = await operation.promise();

  // Output a success message
  console.log(`Cluster created successfully: ${response.clusterName}`);

Python

  1. Install the client library.

  2. Set up application default credentials.

  3. Run the code. 
    from google.cloud import dataproc_v1 as dataproc


def create_cluster(project_id, region, cluster_name):
    """This sample walks a user through creating a Cloud Dataproc cluster
    using the Python client library.

    Args:
        project_id (string): Project to use for creating resources.
        region (string): Region where the resources should live.
        cluster_name (string): Name to use for creating a cluster.
    """

    # Create a client with the endpoint set to the desired cluster region.
    cluster_client = dataproc.ClusterControllerClient(
        client_options={"api_endpoint": f"{region}-dataproc.googleapis.com:443"}
    )

    # Create the cluster config.
    cluster = {
        "project_id": project_id,
        "cluster_name": cluster_name,
        "config": {
            "master_config": {"num_instances": 1, "machine_type_uri": "n1-standard-2"},
            "worker_config": {"num_instances": 2, "machine_type_uri": "n1-standard-2"},
        },
    }

    # Create the cluster.
    operation = cluster_client.create_cluster(
        request={"project_id": project_id, "region": region, "cluster": cluster}
    )
    result = operation.result()

    # Output a success message.
    print(f"Cluster created successfully: {result.cluster_name}")