How to deploy the Kafka Connect GCP Bigtable and verify the deployment?

Either build the project or download the artifact from the Confluent Connector Hub.

Copy the artifact kafka-connect-gcp-bigtable-version.jar to kakfa_home/lib folder.

Copy the bigtable-sink.properties file into kafka_home/config folder. Update the content of the property file according to your environment.

Copy the topic config file(s) to kafka_home/config folder. Example topic config file can be found here.

Make sure you update the topic config with the correct location of the key file.