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+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.example.spanner;
+
+// [START spanner_create_instance_partition]
+
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.Spanner;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerOptions;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstanceAdminClient;
+import com.google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.CreateInstancePartitionRequest;
+import com.google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstanceConfigName;
+import com.google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstanceName;
+import com.google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstancePartition;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+
+class CreateInstancePartitionSample {
+
+  static void createInstancePartition() {
+    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
+    String projectId = "my-project";
+    String instanceId = "my-instance";
+    String instancePartitionId = "my-instance-partition";
+    createInstancePartition(projectId, instanceId, instancePartitionId);
+  }
+
+  static void createInstancePartition(
+      String projectId, String instanceId, String instancePartitionId) {
+    // Set instance partition configuration.
+    int nodeCount = 1;
+    String displayName = "Descriptive name";
+
+    // Create an InstancePartition object that will be used to create the instance partition.
+    InstancePartition instancePartition =
+        InstancePartition.newBuilder()
+            .setDisplayName(displayName)
+            .setNodeCount(nodeCount)
+            .setConfig(InstanceConfigName.of(projectId, "nam3").toString())
+            .build();
+
+    try (Spanner spanner =
+            SpannerOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
+        InstanceAdminClient instanceAdminClient = spanner.createInstanceAdminClient()) {
+
+      // Wait for the createInstancePartition operation to finish.
+      InstancePartition createdInstancePartition =
+          instanceAdminClient
+              .createInstancePartitionAsync(
+                  CreateInstancePartitionRequest.newBuilder()
+                      .setParent(InstanceName.of(projectId, instanceId).toString())
+                      .setInstancePartitionId(instancePartitionId)
+                      .setInstancePartition(instancePartition)
+                      .build())
+              .get();
+      System.out.printf(
+          "Instance partition %s was successfully created%n", createdInstancePartition.getName());
+    } catch (ExecutionException e) {
+      System.out.printf(
+          "Error: Creating instance partition %s failed with error message %s%n",
+          instancePartition.getName(), e.getMessage());
+    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+      System.out.println(
+          "Error: Waiting for createInstancePartition operation to finish was interrupted");
+    }
+  }
+}
+// [END spanner_create_instance_partition]
diff --git a/samples/snippets/src/test/java/com/example/spanner/CreateInstancePartitionSampleIT.java b/samples/snippets/src/test/java/com/example/spanner/CreateInstancePartitionSampleIT.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.example.spanner;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.InstanceAdminClient;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.InstanceConfigId;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.InstanceId;
+import com.google.cloud.spanner.InstanceInfo;
+import com.google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstancePartitionName;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class CreateInstancePartitionSampleIT extends SampleTestBaseV2 {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCreateInstancePartition() throws Exception {
+    String instanceId = idGenerator.generateInstanceId();
+    InstanceAdminClient instanceAdminClient = spanner.getInstanceAdminClient();
+    instanceAdminClient
+        .createInstance(
+            InstanceInfo.newBuilder(InstanceId.of(projectId, instanceId))
+                .setDisplayName("Geo-partitioning test instance")
+                .setInstanceConfigId(InstanceConfigId.of(projectId, "regional-us-central1"))
+                .setNodeCount(1)
+                .build())
+        .get();
+
+    String instancePartitionId = "my-instance-partition";
+    String out =
+        SampleRunner.runSample(
+            () ->
+                CreateInstancePartitionSample.createInstancePartition(
+                    projectId, instanceId, instancePartitionId));
+    assertThat(out)
+        .contains(
+            String.format(
+                "Instance partition %s",
+                InstancePartitionName.of(projectId, instanceId, instancePartitionId).toString()));
+  }
+}