Instructions for Setup for writing data to Big table: 1. Make sure gcloud is installed and the project is set to the current project. Follow the instructions here to install gcloud: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-linux If command gcloud is not recognizable, extract the google-cloud-sdk-116.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz from the above link and execute the commands in terminal: source google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc source google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc 2. Upgrade grpcio: sudo pip install --upgrade six sudo pip install --upgrade grpcio sudo pip install gcloud 3. From top level directory: cd test/vts PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:.. python -m vts.utils.app_engine.bigtable_client_test