Hi All, We recently added a Docker Compose based service named Transform Service to Beam.
Transform service includes a number of transforms released with Beam and provides a single endpoint for accessing them via the Beam's multi-language pipelines framework. I've updated Beam Java/Python SDKs to automatically use this service to expand cross-language transforms used by multi-lang pipelines when possible. This means that Beam pipelines can use cross-language transforms without installing other language runtimes if they have Docker (and Docker Compose which comes with Docker) available locally at job submission. Go SDK updates are in development. Users also have the option to manually startup a Transform Service with utilities provided with Beam SDKs if needed. For mode details regarding the Transform Service please see the documentation here <https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#transform-service> . A list of transforms currently included with the Transform Service is available here <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Transform+Service>. Please see here <https://lists.apache.org/thread/vdflzk3cz9g9xrhxwhyjvf5xdfhwjdko> for a previous discussion on this and please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Cham
