Google Cloud Platform for Architects

Performing operations on Bigtable

This section will walk you through creating a BigTable instance and leveraging it for storage:

1. Move to Bigtable in your side navigation menu and click on Create instance:

2. The web console will as usual make things very easy for you and walk you through creating a new Bigtable instance. Give the instance a name, which is just for display purposes. The instance ID is permanent and will be used to refer to the instance.
3. At this point, you have two choices. You can choose a production instance, which is what is recommended. We are setting up a real web app which is going to serve real traffic. This needs a minimum ...