Releasesby IbisMetadata migration from Dataproc Metastore to Lakehouse is now generally available (GA)
GAyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 15, 2026
Metadata migration from Dataproc Metastore to Lakehouse is now generally available (GA). You can perform a one-time backfill migration or dry run to migrate metadata from a Dataproc Metastore service to an Apache Iceberg REST catalog endpoint or a Hive catalog endpoint using the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, or the REST API.
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