setting_zone_region.md

Setting zone/region

Running jobs in a particular zone/region

For this, you need to specify zone and region in Dataflow API (as well as the Pipelines API if you are using Docker). For example, in order to restrict job processing to Europe, first update vcf_to_bigquery.yaml to use zone and region in Europe:

name: vcf-to-bigquery-pipeline
docker:
  imageName: gcr.io/gcp-variant-transforms/gcp-variant-transforms
  cmd: |
    ./opt/gcp_variant_transforms/bin/vcf_to_bq ...\
      --region europe-west1 \
      --zone europe-west1-b

Then specify zone in the Pipelines API:

gcloud alpha genomics pipelines run ... \
    --zones europe-west1-b

If running from GitHub, you just need to specify zone and region for Dataflow API as below.

python -m gcp_variant_transforms.vcf_to_bq ... \
  --region europe-west1 \
  --zone europe-west1-b

Setting BigQuery dataset region

You can choose the region for the BigQuery dataset at dataset creation time.