Using the Google Cloud Dataproc WorkflowTemplates API to Automate Spark and Hadoop Workloads on GCP

Introduction

In the previous post, Big Data Analytics with Java and Python, using Cloud Dataproc, Google’s Fully-Managed Spark and Hadoop Service, we explored Google Cloud Dataproc using the Google Cloud Console as well as the Google Cloud SDK and Cloud Dataproc API. We created clusters, then uploaded and ran Spark and PySpark jobs, then deleted clusters, each as discrete tasks. Although each task could be done via the Dataproc API and therefore…