How to add table to a specific Bigtable instance?

Question

Let's say I have three Bigtable instances bt1, bt2 and bt3.

Now I want to add a table to bt2.

cbt createtable t1

Now that command cannot specify the instance and according to the documentation I need to put that into ~/.cbtrc.

But I don't want to edit that file every time I need to add a table for another instance. Do I have to?

Answer 1

You can specify an instance with the -instance flag.

-project string
    project ID, if unset uses gcloud configured project
-instance string
    Cloud Bigtable instance
-creds string
    if set, use application credentials in this file

https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/cbt-reference