In this sample, you'll see how to run a simple container as a job in Batch service. You will then automate the lifecycle of the Batch job using Workflows.

The Google Batch service provides an end to end fully-managed batch service, which allows you to schedule, queue, and execute jobs on Google compute instances. The service provisions resources, manages capacity and allows batch workloads to run at scale.

We recommend creating a new project for this tutorial so that it doesn't affect any other existing projects you might have on Google Cloud. It is also easier to clean up resources when you finish.

To create a new project, run:

gcloud projects create [PROJECT_ID]

Make sure your project id is set in gcloud:

gcloud config set project [PROJECT_ID]

In this sample, you will schedule a batch job to run a simple container.

Run setup.sh to enable required services and add right roles to your user account.

See job.json for the job definition. It runs 3 busybox containers and echos some environment variables.

Run test.sh to run the Batch job. Once the job is started, you should see 3 Compute Engine VMs created and you can check the logs of the VMs to see the outputted environment variables.

Run setup-workflow.sh to enable required services and create a service account with the right roles for Workflows.

See workflow.yaml for the workflow definition. It creates a batch job with the busybox containers, waits for the job to complete and then deletes the job.

Run test-workflow.sh to deploy and then execute the workflow. You can check the result of the workflow execution in Google Cloud console.

To delete the Batch jobs you created, use the gcloud beta batch jobs delete command.

The following one-liner deletes all jobs containing "job-busybox-" in the names in the us-central1 region.

gcloud beta batch jobs list us-central1 --format="value(name)" | grep job-busybox- \
 | xargs -L1 gcloud beta batch jobs delete --location=us-central1

To delete the Workflow, run the gcloud workflows delete command:

gcloud workflows delete batch-busybox --location=us-central1

To delete the project, run the gcloud projects delete command:

gcloud projects delete [PROJECT_ID]