October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
In this section, we will discover the command-line tool for Cloud Bigtable—cbt. Written in Go, the CLI allows us to perform basic interactions with Bigtable. Unlike the previous command-line tools we've looked at, we must install the component using Cloud Shell and the gcloud command.
Again, we took a deeper look at this service in Chapter 10, Exploring Storage Options in GCP – Part 2, but before we look at the command-line tool, we should remind ourselves that Bigtable is a high-performance NoSQL database service that uses instances, clusters, and nodes. Bigtable is a container for your clusters and nodes. Tables belong to these Bigtable instances:
gcloud components install cbt
You may have noticed that the different tools we have looked ...
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