Is it possible to use a Custom machine for Dataflow instances?

Question

I'm been reading creating-instance-with-custom-machine-type and It seems really interesting but I don't know how to set up a Dataflow streaming job with a custom machine (for example 8 CPUs and 15GB). Is it possible?

Answer 1

Dataflow now supports custom machine types, which can be specified like other machine types, with the --workerMachineType flag.

A sample value is --workerMachineType=custom-8-7424, which would correspond to 8 cores and 7424 MB of memory.