| # Cloud Bigtable Hello World in Go |
| |
| This is a simple application that demonstrates using the [Google Cloud APIs Go |
| Client Library](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go) to connect |
| to and interact with Cloud Bigtable. |
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| ## Prerequisites |
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| 1. Set up Cloud Console. |
| 1. Go to the [Cloud Console](https://cloud.google.com/console) and create or select your project. |
| You will need the project ID later. |
| 1. Go to **Settings > Project Billing Settings** and enable billing. |
| 1. Select **APIs & Auth > APIs**. |
| 1. Enable the **Cloud Bigtable API** and the **Cloud Bigtable Admin API**. |
| (You may need to search for the API). |
| 1. Set up gcloud. |
| 1. `gcloud components update` |
| 1. `gcloud auth login` |
| 1. `gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID` |
| 1. Provision a Cloud Bigtable instance |
| 1. Follow the instructions in the [user |
| documentation](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/creating-instance) to |
| create a Google Cloud Platform project and Cloud Bigtable instance if necessary. |
| 1. You'll need to reference your project id and instance id to run the application. |
| |
| ## Running |
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| 1. From the hello_world example folder, `go run main.go -project PROJECT_ID -instance INSTANCE_ID`, substituting your project id and instance id. |
| |
| ## Cleaning up |
| |
| To avoid incurring extra charges to your Google Cloud Platform account, remove |
| the resources created for this sample. |
| |
| 1. Go to the Clusters page in the [Cloud |
| Console](https://console.cloud.google.com). |
| |
| [Go to the Clusters page](https://console.cloud.google.com/project/_/bigtable/clusters) |
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| 1. Click the cluster name. |
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| 1. Click **Delete**. |
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| 1. Type the cluster ID, then click **Delete** to delete the cluster. |
