Google Dataflow Hands on Lab for Beginners

In this lab we will show you how to use Dataflow templates which allow you to stage your pipelines on Google Cloud and run them using the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, or REST API calls.

Templates provide you with additional benefits compared to non-templated Dataflow deployment, such as:

- You can run your pipelines without the development environment and associated dependencies
- Templates separate the pipeline construction (performed by developers) from the running of the pipeline.
- Runtime parameters allow you to customize the running of the pipeline.
- Non-technical users can run templates with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or the REST AP