The cbt tool is a command-line interface for performing several different
operations on Cloud Bigtable. It is written in Go using the Go client
library for Cloud Bigtable. Source code for the cbt tool
is available in the GitHub repository
GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go. This repository is a mirror
of code.googlesource.com/gocloud.
Installing the cbt tool
The cbt tool is available as a Cloud SDK component. To
install the cbt tool, install the Cloud SDK, then run the
following commands:
gcloud components update
gcloud components install cbt
If you have the latest stable release of the go tool installed, you can also
install the cbt tool using the standard go tool:
go get -u cloud.google.com/go/bigtable/cmd/cbt
Run a simple cbt command to verify installation of the tool:
cbt listinstances
The terminal window displays two columns named Instance Name and Info.
Using the cbt tool
For details about using the cbt tool, including a list of available commands,
see the cbt reference.
