Google Cloud Skills Boost

Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud

8 hours Introductory universal_currency_alt 5 Credits
Earn a skill badge by completing the Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud quest, where you learn how to create instances, design schemas, query data, and perform administrative tasks in Bigtable. You will also complete exercises related to monitoring Bigtable performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication.


A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

Badge for Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud

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  • Lab

    Designing and Querying Bigtable Schemas

    In this lab, you explore a Bigtable instance and use the Bigtable CLI (cbt CLI) to query data in Bigtable. You also design a table schema and row key using best practices for Bigtable.

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    Creating and Populating a Bigtable Instance

    In this lab, you create a Bigtable instance and table and then use a Dataflow template to populate the table from pre-generated data files on Cloud Storage.

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    Streaming Data to Bigtable

    In this lab, you launch a Dataflow pipeline to load streaming data from Pub/Sub into Bigtable.

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    Monitoring and Managing Bigtable Health and Performance

    In this lab, you monitor disk and CPU usage in a Bigtable instance, update an existing cluster to apply node autoscaling, implement replication in an instance, and back up and restore data in Bigtable.

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    Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud: Challenge Lab

    This challenge lab tests your ability to manage Bigtable instances and tables on Google Cloud.

  • info
    Quest Info
    Prerequisites
    Basic understanding of database concepts and terms (e.g. instances, schemas, keys).
    Available languages
    English
    What do I do when I finish this quest?
    After finishing this quest, you can explore additional content in your learning path or browse the learning catalog.
    What badges can I earn?
    Upon finishing a quest, you will earn a badge of completion. Some quests test your ability to apply your knowledge via a final assessment challenge lab. For these quests, you will receive a skill badge. Badges can be viewed on your profile and shared with your social network.