Create the connection

Create the connection to Cloud Bigtable.

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Code sample

C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

// Connect to the Cloud Bigtable Admin API.
cbta::BigtableTableAdminClient table_admin(
    cbta::MakeBigtableTableAdminConnection());

//! [connect data]
// Create an object to access the Cloud Bigtable Data API.
cbt::Table table(cbt::MakeDataConnection(),
                 cbt::TableResource(project_id, instance_id, table_id));
//! [connect data]

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

// BigtableTableAdminClient API lets us create, manage and delete tables.
BigtableTableAdminClient bigtableTableAdminClient = BigtableTableAdminClient.Create();

// BigtableClient API lets us read and write to a table.
BigtableClient bigtableClient = BigtableClient.Create();

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

adminClient, err := bigtable.NewAdminClient(ctx, *project, *instance)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatalf("Could not create admin client: %v", err)
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

// Creates the settings to configure a bigtable data client.
BigtableDataSettings settings =
    BigtableDataSettings.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).setInstanceId(instanceId).build();

// Creates a bigtable data client.
dataClient = BigtableDataClient.create(settings);

// Creates the settings to configure a bigtable table admin client.
BigtableTableAdminSettings adminSettings =
    BigtableTableAdminSettings.newBuilder()
        .setProjectId(projectId)
        .setInstanceId(instanceId)
        .build();

// Creates a bigtable table admin client.
adminClient = BigtableTableAdminClient.create(adminSettings);

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

const bigtableClient = new Bigtable();
const instance = bigtableClient.instance(INSTANCE_ID);

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

/** Uncomment and populate these variables in your code */
// $projectId = 'The Google project ID';
// $instanceId = 'The Bigtable instance ID';
// $tableId = 'The Bigtable table ID';

$instanceAdminClient = new BigtableInstanceAdminClient();
$tableAdminClient = new BigtableTableAdminClient();
$dataClient = new BigtableClient([
    'projectId' => $projectId,
]);

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

# The client must be created with admin=True because it will create a
# table.
client = bigtable.Client(project=project_id, admin=True)
instance = client.instance(instance_id)

Ruby

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

# instance_id      = "my-instance"
# table_id         = "my-table"
# column_family    = "cf"
# column_qualifier = "greeting"

bigtable = Google::Cloud::Bigtable.new

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