Cloud Composer #

Description #

This sandbox will deploy a Cloud Composer

List of the components used in this sandbox:

• Network
• Cloud Composer Environment
• Dataflow Pipeline Example
• Cloud Storage Bucket
• BigQuery Table

Note: additional details are available in Cloud Composer Guide

Setup #

NOTE: If you want to undeploy or update an existing sandbox please proceed directly to Step 3 - Recover

First you need initialize the sandbox configuration. To do this please run the initialization command:

hub stack init

The command will prompt you to enter the GCP project ID and will create initial configuration files and download required components.

Next, to configure sandbox manually run the following command:

hub stack configure

The Hub CLI produces a state file after provisioning of sandbox, same as its components, and it must be uploaded to the cloud. For simplicity, we pre-create Cloud DNS Zone and GCS bucket in your GCP project with pre-generated names. This is done during configure command.

Deploy Sandbox #

Once you are done with the configuration, use the following command to deploy the sandbox:

hub stack deploy

If you want to change environemnt configuration and redeploy a composer environment run following command:

hub stack undeploy -c "composer"

Make a change in the sandbox configuration or in the body of the component and run next command:

hub stack deploy -c "composer"

Note: even in minimal configuration it will still take 20+ minutes to redeploy

Parameters #

Each component has a set of parameters (key-value pairs) such as GKE cluster name or number of nodes in a node pool, etc.

Please explore parameters section of the hub.yaml to see what parameters are available. Any default value can be overridden. To get more information on how components are implemented refer to their README files.

To view parameters for the current sandbox run this command:

hub show

You can read about configuration options here: https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/how-to/managing/creating

Undeploy Sandbox #

To delete the sandbox, run the followng command:

hub stack undeploy

Recover #

Google Cloud Shell environments are ephemeral, which means any files stored locally on the Cloud Shell machine will be lost when the machine restarts. Luckily, we store sandbox state files in the Cloud, which means, if we lose a local state, we can always recover it from the Cloud.

To recover your sandbox please follow the steps below.

Switch to your current project:

gcloud config set project <project-id>

List all recent sandboxes deployed to your project and find ID of the sandbox you would like to recover:

hub state ls

Initialize your sandbox:

hub stack init <id>

Hub CLI will find the location of the state file, download it and prepare configuration files.

After stack recovery undeploy or update your existing stack using corresponding commands.

Getting deployment result #

After successful deployment you will get three URLs

1. Airflow URL
2. GCS bucket
3. GKE Cluster

You can also find it by running command:

hub show

If you want to see only the configuration parameters used by Composer run the following command

hub show -c "composer"

Get GKE kubeconfig #

Use a query string for

cluster_name="$(hub show -q '.parameters.composer.gkeCluster' -- -Mr)"
gcloud container clusters get-credentials "$cluster_name"

# to confirm cluster setup
k cluster-info

TODO: we may want to delegate this to the composer component post-deploy. Depends if we bother to deploy on top anything else, (i.e. Ingress Controller, user apps etc as set of components)

See also #

• Cloud Composer Guide
• Creating Environment

Architecture Diagram #