oginorasta / gcp-bigquery-demo

This is a repository showing how to use bigquery as an app datbase storing user credentials

gcp-bigquery-demo

This is a repository showing how to use bigquery as an app datbase storing user credentials

Background

This is a write up for an upcoming Meetup and Medium post.

Idea

BigQuery is a database made by Google and available on GCP. This demo projects shows how easy it is to use BigQuery as a database for a backend app fo example to store user credentials.

Architecture

There are GCP projects ogino-app-live and ogino-userdb-live. In ogino-app-live a simple GO app is running in a VM with a service account which has access to the dataset userdb in oghub-userdb-live. The GO app uses the official cloud.google.com/go/bigquery library to perform simple CRUD operations on the tables inside the userdb database.

Learnings

• Easy to spin up and test
• BigQuery is highly available and easy to use
• There are provided Google libraries

Useful gcloud commands for demoing

• git clone https://github.com/oginorasta/gcp-bigquery-demo.git
• cd gcp-bigquery-demo
• gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=oghub-userdb-live-bigquery-reader.json
• gcloud auth list
• bq ls --project ogino-userdb-live