BigQuery Writer initial setup

If you have not used BigQuery before, see BigQuery > Documentation > Guides > What is BigQuery? > Get started with BigQuery.

Above, the project is rlproject2 and the BigQuery project ID is rlproject2-358421. You will need your project ID to configure BigQuery Writer to write to the tables in the project's datasets.

Before you can use BigQuery Writer in a Striim application, you must create a service account (see Service accounts overview). The service account must have the following roles (see BigQuery > Documentation > Guides > Introduction to IAM > BigQuery predefined Cloud IAM roles):

Alternatively, instead of using those predefined roles, you may create a custom role with the following permissions for the target tables (see BigQuery > Documentation > Guides > Introduction to IAM > BigQuery custom roles):

Download the service account's key file (see iAM > Documentation > Guides > Create and delete service account keys > Create a service account key) and copy it to the same location on each Striim server that will run BigQuery Writer, or to a network location accessible by all servers. When creating an application, specify the path to and name of this file in BigQuery Writer's Service Account Key property.