What happens if I manually delete one of the VMs that Dataflow created? -
i see gce instances dataflow created job in gce console. happens if delete them? manually altering resources provisioned google cloud dataflow unsupported operation. interfere dataflow’s clean-up process , might result in leftover resources , therefore cost. in particular, deleting vms of streaming dataflow job might leave persistent disks around, still billed. using dataflow provisioned vms or persistent disks other purposes dataflow job not supported. not attempt reattach disks other machines, or vms run other independent programs. dataflow service might rid of these resources @ point, without warning, , data on these resources lost.