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Running a Spark Job on a Dataproc Cluster
Google Cloud Dataproc is a fully managed and highly scalable service capable of running Apache Spark as well as over 30 other open-source tools and frameworks. In this hands-on lab, you’ll provision a Dataproc cluster and then submit a Spark job that calculates and outputs the value of Pi to a high degree.
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Challenge
Enable the Necessary API
Enable the Dataproc API, either through the user interface or the Cloud Shell.
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Challenge
Create a Dataproc Cluster
Provision a Dataproc cluster capable of running the Spark job.
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Challenge
Submit a Spark Job
Submit the Spark job, and evaluate the results.
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