Overview

In this lab, you will open a Dataflow project, use pipeline filtering, and execute the pipeline locally and on the cloud.

• Open Dataflow project
• Pipeline filtering
• Execute the pipeline locally and on the cloud

Objective

In this lab, you learn how to write a simple Dataflow pipeline and run it both locally and on the cloud.

• Setup a Python Dataflow project using Apache Beam
• Write a simple pipeline in Python
• Execute the query on the local machine
• Execute the query on the cloud

Setup

For each lab, you get a new Google Cloud project and set of resources for a fixed time at no cost.

1. Sign in to Google Skills using an incognito window.

2. Note the lab's access time (for example, 1:15:00), and make sure you can finish within that time. There is no pause feature. You can restart if needed, but you have to start at the beginning.

3. When ready, click Start lab.

4. Note your lab credentials (Username and Password). You will use them to sign in to the Google Cloud Console.

5. Click Open Google Console.

6. Click Use another account and copy/paste credentials for this lab into the prompts. If you use other credentials, you'll receive errors or incur charges.

7. Accept the terms and skip the recovery resource page.

Check project permissions

Before you begin your work on Google Cloud, you need to ensure that your project has the correct permissions within Identity and Access Management (IAM).

1. In the Google Cloud console, on the Navigation menu (), select IAM & Admin > IAM.

2. Confirm that the default compute Service Account {project-number}-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com is present and has the editor role assigned. The account prefix is the project number, which you can find on Navigation menu > Cloud Overview > Dashboard.

1. In the Google Cloud console, on the Navigation menu, click Cloud Overview > Dashboard.
2. Copy the project number (e.g. 729328892908).
3. On the Navigation menu, select IAM & Admin > IAM.
4. At the top of the roles table, below View by Principals, click Grant Access.
5. For New principals, type:

6. Replace {project-number} with your project number.
7. For Role, select Project (or Basic) > Editor.
8. Click Save.

Task 1. Ensure that the Dataflow API is successfully enabled

To ensure access to the necessary API, restart the connection to the Dataflow API.

1. In the Cloud Console, enter Dataflow API in the top search bar.

2. Click on the result for Dataflow API.

3. Click Manage.

4. Click Disable API.

5. If asked to confirm, click Disable.

6. Click Enable.

Task 2. Preparation

Open the SSH terminal and connect to the training VM

You will be running all code from a curated training VM.

1. In the Console, expand the Navigation menu ()and select Compute Engine > VM instances.

2. Locate the line with the instance called training-vm.

3. On the far right, under Connect, click on SSH to open a terminal window.

4. In this lab, you will enter CLI commands on the training-vm.

Download code repository

• Next you will download a code repository for use in this lab. In the training-vm SSH terminal enter the following:

Create a Cloud Storage bucket

Follow these instructions to create a bucket.

1. In the Console, on the Navigation menu, click Cloud overview.

2. Select and copy the Project ID.

For simplicity you will use the Google Skills Project ID, which is already globally unique, as the bucket name.

3. In the Console, on the Navigation menu, click Cloud Storage > Buckets.
4. Click Create.
5. Specify the following, and leave the remaining settings as their defaults:

6. Click Create.

7. Record the name of your bucket. You will need it in subsequent tasks.

8. In the training-vm SSH terminal enter the following to create an environment variable named "BUCKET" and verify that it exists with the echo command:

You can use $BUCKET in terminal commands. And if you need to enter the bucket name <your-bucket> in a text field in Console, you can quickly retrieve the name with echo $BUCKET.

Task 3. Pipeline filtering

The goal of this lab is to become familiar with the structure of a Dataflow project and learn how to execute a Dataflow pipeline.

1. Return to the training-vm SSH terminal and navigate to the directory /training-data-analyst/courses/data_analysis/lab2/python and view the file grep.py.

2. View the file with Nano. Do not make any changes to the code.

3. Press Ctrl+X to exit Nano.

Can you answer these questions about the file grep.py?

• What files are being read?
• What is the search term?
• Where does the output go?

There are three transforms in the pipeline:

• What does the transform do?
• What does the second transform do?
• Where does its input come from?
• What does it do with this input?
• What does it write to its output?
• Where does the output go to?
• What does the third transform do?

Task 4 Execute the pipeline locally

1. Install pip package and latest Python SDK from PyPI.

2. In the training-vm SSH terminal, locally execute grep.py:

The output file will be output.txt. If the output is large enough, it will be sharded into separate parts with names like: output-00000-of-00001.

3. Locate the correct file by examining the file's time:

4. Examine the output file(s).

5. You can replace "-*" below with the appropriate suffix:

Does the output seem logical?

Task 5. Execute the pipeline on the cloud

1. Copy some Java files to the cloud. In the training-vm SSH terminal, enter the following command:

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Copy Java files to the Cloud

2. Using Nano, edit the Dataflow pipeline in grepc.py:

3. Replace PROJECT and BUCKET with your Project ID and Bucket name.

Example strings before:

Example strings after edit (use your values):

4. Save the file and close Nano by pressing the CTRL+X key, then press Y, and Enter.

5. Submit the Dataflow job to the cloud:

Because this is such a small job, running on the cloud will take significantly longer than running it locally (on the order of 7-10 minutes).

6. Return to the browser tab for Console.

7. On the Navigation menu, click Dataflow and click on your job to monitor progress.

Example:

8. Wait for the job status to turn to Succeeded.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Submit the Dataflow job to the Cloud

9. Examine the output in the Cloud Storage bucket.

10. On the Navigation menu, click Cloud Storage > Buckets and click on your bucket.

11. Click the javahelp directory.

This job will generate the file output.txt. If the file is large enough it will be sharded into multiple parts with names like: output-0000x-of-000y. You can identify the most recent file by name or by the Last modified field.

12. Click on the file to view it.

Alternatively, you can download the file via the training-vm SSH terminal and view it:

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