Specify the region
where your cluster is located (confirm or replace "us-central1").
Your cluster's region is listed on the
Dataproc Clusters
page in the Google Cloud console.
Specify the
clusterName
of the existing cluster that you are deleting (confirm or replace
"example-cluster").
Click EXECUTE. The first time you
run the API template, you may be asked to choose and sign into
your Google account, then authorize the Google APIs Explorer to access your
account. If the request is successful, the JSON response
shows that cluster update is pending.
To confirm that the cluster is being deleted, open the Dataproc
Clusters page in the Google Cloud console.
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