GSP1143

Overview

Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that enables organizations to centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern their data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts to power analytics at scale. Specifically, you can use Dataplex to build a data mesh architecture, which is an organizational and technical approach that decentralizes data ownership among domain data owners.

Dataplex manages data in a way that doesn’t require data movement or duplication. As you add new data assets, Dataplex harvests the metadata for both structured and unstructured data, and automatically registers all metadata in a secure, unified metastore. Data and metadata can then be assessed via Google Cloud services such as Data Catalog and BigQuery.

In this lab, you learn how to start building your own data mesh by creating and removing lakes, zones, and assets in Dataplex using the Google Cloud console.

What you'll do

• Enable the Dataplex API
• Create a lake
• Add a zone to your lake
• Attach and detach assets
• Delete zones and lakes

Setup and requirements

Before you click the Start Lab button

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How to start your lab and sign in to the Google Cloud console

1. Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a pop-up opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is the Lab Details panel with the following:

   • The Open Google Cloud console button
   • Time remaining
   • The temporary credentials that you must use for this lab
   • Other information, if needed, to step through this lab

2. Click Open Google Cloud console (or right-click and select Open Link in Incognito Window if you are running the Chrome browser).

   The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.

   Tip: Arrange the tabs in separate windows, side-by-side.

   Note: If you see the Choose an account dialog, click Use Another Account.

3. If necessary, copy the Username below and paste it into the Sign in dialog.

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4. Click Next.

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6. Click Next.

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7. Click through the subsequent pages:

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After a few moments, the Google Cloud console opens in this tab.

Note: To view a menu with a list of Google Cloud products and services, click the Navigation menu at the top-left.

Enable the Cloud Dataplex API

1. In the Google Cloud Console, enter Cloud Dataplex API in the top search bar.

2. Click on the result for Cloud Dataplex API under Marketplace.

3. Click ENABLE.

Task 1. Create a lake

In Dataplex, a lake is the highest organizational domain that represents a specific data area or business unit. For example, you can create a lake for each department or data domain in your organization, so that you can organize and provide data for specific user groups.

In this task, you create a lake to start building a data mesh.

1. In the Google Cloud Console, in the Navigation menu (), navigate to Analytics > Dataplex.

If prompted Welcome to the new Dataplex experience, click Close.

2. Under Manage lakes, click Manage.

3. Click +Create lake.

4. Enter the required information to create a new lake:

Property	Value
Display Name	sensors
ID	Leave the default value.
Region

Leave the other default values.

5. Click Create.

It can take up to 3 minutes for the lake to be created.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Create a data lake sensors

Task 2. Add a zone to your lake

After you create a lake, you can add zones to the lake. Zones are subdomains within a lake that you can use to categorize data further. For example, you can categorize data by stage, usage, or restrictions.

There are two types of zones:

• Raw zones contain data in raw formats (such as files in Cloud Storage buckets) and are not subject to strict type-checking.
• Curated zones contain data that is cleaned, formatted, and ready for analytics such as BigQuery tables.

In this task, you create a raw zone for working with files in a Cloud Storage bucket.

1. On the Manage tab, click on the name of your lake.

2. Click +Add zone.

3. Enter the required information to create a new zone:

Property	Value
Display Name	temperature raw data
ID	Leave the default value.
Type	Raw zone
Data locations	Regional

Leave the other default values.

For example, the option for Enable metadata discovery under Discovery settings is enabled by default and allows authorized users to discover the data in the zone.

4. Click Create.

It can take up to 2 minutes for the zone to be created.

You can perform the next task once the status of the zone is Active.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Add a zone temperature raw data to the lake sensors

Task 3. Attach an asset to a zone

Data stored in Cloud Storage buckets or BigQuery datasets can be attached as assets to zones within a Dataplex lake.

In this task, you attach a Cloud Storage bucket that you create in the Google Cloud console.

1. On the Zones tab, click on the name of your zone.

2. On the Assets tab, click +ADD ASSEST.

3. Click +Add AN ASSET.

4. Enter the required information to attach a new asset:

Property	Value
Type	Storage bucket
Display Name	measurements
ID	Leave the default value.

Leave the other default values.

5. For Bucket, click Browse.

You can attach an existing Cloud Storage bucket or create a new one without leaving Dataplex. In the next steps, you create a new Cloud Storage bucket and attach it to the zone.

6. Click +Create new bucket ().

7. Provide your project ID as the bucket name (), and then click Continue.

8. For Location type, select Region, and then select .

Leave other default values.

9. Click Create.

If prompted Public access will be prevented, click Confirm.

10. Click Select to select the bucket you just created, and then click Continue.

11. For Discovery settings, select Inherit to inherit the Discovery settings from the zone level, and then click Continue.

12. Click Submit.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Create a cloud storage bucket and attach an asset measurements to the zone temperature raw data

Task 4. Delete assets, zones, and lakes

To delete a lake, you must first detach assets and then delete the zones.

In this task, you detach the asset from the zone, then delete the zone, and last, delete the lake.

Detach an asset

1. On the left menu, click on Manage tab, and then click on the name of your lake.

2. On the Zones tab, click on the name of your zone.

3. On the Assets tab, enable the checkbox to the left of the asset name.

4. Click Delete assets.

5. Click Delete to confirm.

This action does delete the underlying data in the Cloud Storage bucket. It simply removes the Cloud Storage bucket from being accessible or discoverable using the lake in Dataplex.

Delete a zone

1. On the left menu, click on Manage tab, and then click on the name of your lake.

2. On the Zones tab, enable the checkbox to the left of the zone name.

3. Click Delete zone.

4. Click Delete to confirm.

Delete the lake

1. On the left menu, click on Manage tab, and then click on the name of your lake.

2. At the top of the page, click Delete.

3. Confirm deletion by typing delete into the text box.

4. Click Delete lake to confirm.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Delete lake sensors and nested resources

Congratulations!

You used the Google Cloud console to create and delete lakes, zones, and assets in Dataplex.

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Manual Last Updated February 28, 2024

Lab Last Tested February 28, 2024

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