This initialization action installs the Open Source Edition of RStudio Server on the master node of a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster.

⚠️ NOTICE: See best practices of using initialization actions in production.

You can use this initialization action to create a new Dataproc cluster with RStudio Server installed by:

1. Using the gcloud command to create a new cluster with this initialization action. The password must be at least 7 characters.

   REGION=<region>
   CLUSTER_NAME=<cluster_name>
   gcloud dataproc clusters create ${CLUSTER_NAME} \
       --region ${REGION} \
       --initialization-actions gs://goog-dataproc-initialization-actions-${REGION}/rstudio/rstudio.sh \
       --metadata rstudio-user=rstudio \
       --metadata rstudio-password=<PASSWORD>

2. Once the cluster has been created, RStudio Server is configured to run on port 8787 on the master node in a Dataproc cluster. To connect to the Rtudio Server web interface, you will need to create an SSH tunnel and use a SOCKS 5 Proxy as described in the dataproc web interfaces documentation, then login with the user and password. Be careful about your firewall settings, not to expose port 8787 to the internet.

You can find more information about using initialization actions with Dataproc in the Dataproc documentation.

• RStudio is licensed under AGPL v3
• This installs RStudio Server
• Initial login is set to rstudio / rstudio