Method: projects.regions.clusters.create

Creates a cluster in a project. The returnedOperation.metadata will beClusterOperationMetadata.

HTTP request

POST https://dataproc.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{projectId}/regions/{region}/clusters

The URL usesgRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
projectId

string

Required. The ID of the Google Cloud Platform project that the cluster belongs to.

Authorization requires the followingIAM permission on the specified resourceprojectId:

  • dataproc.clusters.create
region

string

Required. The Dataproc region in which to handle the request.

Query parameters

Parameters
requestId

string

Optional. A unique ID used to identify the request. If the server receives twoCreateClusterRequests with the same id, then the second request will be ignored and the firstgoogle.longrunning.Operation created and stored in the backend is returned.

It is recommended to always set this value to aUUID.

The ID must contain only letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_), and hyphens (-). The maximum length is 40 characters.

actionOnFailedPrimaryWorkers

enum (FailureAction)

Optional. Failure action when primary worker creation fails.

Request body

The request body contains an instance ofCluster.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance ofOperation.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see theAuthentication Overview.

FailureAction

Actions in response to failure of a resource associated with a cluster.

Enums
FAILURE_ACTION_UNSPECIFIEDWhen FailureAction is unspecified, failure action defaults to NO_ACTION.
NO_ACTIONTake no action on failure to create a cluster resource. NO_ACTION is the default.
DELETEDelete the failed cluster resource.

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Last updated 2025-06-20 UTC.