[BEAM-9199] Make --region a required flag for DataflowRunner

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.21.0
• Component/s: runner-dataflow
• Assignee: Kyle Weaver
• Reporter: Kyle Weaver
• Created: 27/Jan/20 23:01
• Updated: 13/Apr/23 11:01
• Resolved: 07/Apr/20 00:20

Description

We've been warning users since Beam 2.15.0 that --region will be required. That is sufficient time, so now we can start requiring the flag.

While this is a small change in and of itself, I'm guessing many tests and examples will need to be updated to add --region.

Issue Links

• relates to: BEAM-9714 [Go SDK] Require --region flag in Dataflow runner
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11269
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11281
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12439