Configure Bigtable in Application Design Center

Bigtable is a key-value and wide-column store, ideal for fast access to structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data. For example, you might create a Bigtable instance to store data for the following use cases:

Clickstream
Internet-of-things (IoT)
Batch analytics
Machine learning model training

For more information, see the following:

This document describes the connections and parameters you can configure when using App Design Center to create a Bigtable instance. The configuration parameters are based on the terraform-google-bigtable Terraform module.

Component connections

The following table includes the components that you can connect to a Bigtable instance, and the resulting updates to your application and its generated Terraform code.

Connected component

Application updates

Background information

Compute Engine instance template

The Compute Engine instances can connect to and manage the Bigtable instance.
The Bigtable resource metadata information is added to the Compute Engine instance template.
The roles/bigtable.admin role is added to the Compute Engine instance template service account.

Bigtable overview

Cloud Run

The Cloud Run service can perform administrative functions on the Bigtable instance.
The Bigtable resource metadata information is added to the Cloud Run environment variables.
The roles/bigtable.admin role is added to the Cloud Run service account.

What is Cloud Run

Required configuration parameters

If your template includes a Bigtable component, you must configure the following Bigtable instance parameters before you deploy.

Parameter name	Description and constraints	Background information
Project ID	The project where you want to deploy the Bigtable instance.	Configure components
Name	name	name

Optional configuration parameters

The following parameters are optional. To display advanced parameters, in the Configurationarea, select Show advanced fields.

Feature

Subfeature

Parameter name

Description and constraint information

Background information

Display Name

displayName

display_name

Zones

Key

The zones map object key.

zones

Zone

location

Bigtable locations

Cluster ID

clusterID

cluster_id

Num Nodes

serveNodes

Nodes

KMS Key Name

kmsKeyName

Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)

Autoscaling Config

Min Nodes

minServeNodes

Determine the minimum number of nodes

Max Nodes

maxServeNodes

Determine the maximum number of nodes

CPU Target

cpuUtilizationPercent

Determine the CPU utilization target

Storage Target

storageUtilizationGibPerNode

Determine the storage utilization target

Tables

Key

The tables map object key.

tables

Table Name

name

Split Keys

split_keys

Optional: Split the table by row key

Deletion Protection

deletion_protection

Modify deletion protection

Change Stream Retention

retentionPeriod

Change streams overview

Automated Backup Policy

Retention Period

retentionPeriod

Use automated backup

Frequency

frequency

Use automated backup

Column Family

Key

The column_family map object key. This object is in the tables object.

column_family

Family

family

Column families

Deletion Protection

When selected, a terraform apply or terraform destroy that would delete the instance will fail. When not selected, the instance can be deleted.

deletion_protection

Storage Type

defaultStorageType

Choose between SSD and HDD storage

Labels

Key

labels

Create and manage instance labels

Value

labels

Create and manage instance labels