HashiCorp Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that lets you provision and manage cloud infrastructure. Terraform provides plugins called providers that let you interact with cloud providers and other APIs. You can use the Terraform provider for Google Cloud to provision and manage Google Cloud resources, including Bigtable.
This page introduces you to using Terraform with Bigtable, including an introduction to how Terraform works and some resources to help you get started using Terraform with Google Cloud. You'll also find links to Terraform reference docs for Bigtable, code examples, and guides for using Terraform to provision Bigtable resources.
For instructions on how to get started with Terraform for Google Cloud, see Install and configure Terraform or the Terraform for Google Cloud quickstart.
How Terraform works
Terraform has a declarative and configuration-oriented syntax, which you can use to describe the infrastructure that you want to provision in your Google Cloud project. After you author this configuration in one or more Terraform configuration files, you can use the Terraform CLI to apply this configuration to your Bigtable resources.