diff --git a/modules/gcloud/build.gradle b/modules/gcloud/build.gradle
index a5737648a4b..aa42d7dc560 100644
--- a/modules/gcloud/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/gcloud/build.gradle
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ dependencies {
     testCompile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-firestore:1.33.0'
     testCompile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub:1.105.0'
     testCompile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-spanner:1.50.0'
+    testCompile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigtable:1.17.3'
     testCompile 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.15.0'
 }
diff --git a/modules/gcloud/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BigtableEmulatorContainer.java b/modules/gcloud/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BigtableEmulatorContainer.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4b81e3964ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gcloud/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BigtableEmulatorContainer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package org.testcontainers.containers;
+
+import org.testcontainers.containers.wait.strategy.LogMessageWaitStrategy;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+
+/**
+ * A Bigtable container that relies in google cloud sdk.
+ *
+ * Default port is 9000.
+ *
+ * @author Eddú Meléndez
+ * @author Ray Tsang
+ */
+public class BigtableEmulatorContainer extends GenericContainer<BigtableEmulatorContainer> {
+
+    private static final DockerImageName DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME = DockerImageName.parse("gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/cloud-sdk");
+
+    private static final String CMD = "gcloud beta emulators bigtable start --host-port 0.0.0.0:9000";
+    private static final int PORT = 9000;
+
+    public BigtableEmulatorContainer(final DockerImageName dockerImageName) {
+        super(dockerImageName);
+
+        dockerImageName.assertCompatibleWith(DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME);
+
+        withExposedPorts(PORT);
+        setWaitStrategy(new LogMessageWaitStrategy()
+                .withRegEx("(?s).*running.*$"));
+        withCommand("/bin/sh", "-c", CMD);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return a <code>host:port</code> pair corresponding to the address on which the emulator is
+     * reachable from the test host machine. Directly usable as a parameter to the
+     * com.google.cloud.ServiceOptions.Builder#setHost(java.lang.String) method.
+     */
+    public String getEmulatorEndpoint() {
+        return getHost() + ":" + getEmulatorPort();
+    }
+
+    public int getEmulatorPort() {
+        return getMappedPort(PORT);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/modules/gcloud/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BigtableEmulatorContainerTest.java b/modules/gcloud/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BigtableEmulatorContainerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0cc44afcc77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gcloud/src/test/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BigtableEmulatorContainerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+package org.testcontainers.containers;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
+import com.google.api.gax.batching.Batcher;
+import com.google.api.gax.core.CredentialsProvider;
+import com.google.api.gax.core.NoCredentialsProvider;
+import com.google.api.gax.grpc.GrpcTransportChannel;
+import com.google.api.gax.rpc.FixedTransportChannelProvider;
+import com.google.api.gax.rpc.TransportChannelProvider;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableInstanceAdminClient;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableTableAdminClient;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.CreateInstanceRequest;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.CreateTableRequest;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.Instance;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.Table;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.stub.BigtableInstanceAdminStub;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.stub.BigtableInstanceAdminStubSettings;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.stub.BigtableTableAdminStubSettings;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.stub.EnhancedBigtableTableAdminStub;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataClient;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataSettings;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Row;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.RowCell;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.RowMutation;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.RowMutationEntry;
+import io.grpc.ManagedChannel;
+import io.grpc.ManagedChannelBuilder;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+
+public class BigtableEmulatorContainerTest {
+
+    public static final String PROJECT_ID = "test-project";
+    public static final String INSTANCE_ID = "test-instance";
+
+    @Rule
+    // emulatorContainer {
+    public BigtableEmulatorContainer emulator = new BigtableEmulatorContainer(
+        DockerImageName.parse("gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/cloud-sdk:316.0.0-emulators")
+    );
+    // }
+
+    @Test
+    // testWithEmulatorContainer {
+    public void testSimple() throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
+        ManagedChannel channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forTarget(emulator.getEmulatorEndpoint())
+            .usePlaintext().build();
+
+        TransportChannelProvider channelProvider = FixedTransportChannelProvider.create(GrpcTransportChannel.create(channel));
+        NoCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = NoCredentialsProvider.create();
+
+        try {
+            createTable(channelProvider, credentialsProvider, "test-table" );
+
+            BigtableDataClient client = BigtableDataClient.create(BigtableDataSettings
+                .newBuilderForEmulator(emulator.getHost(), emulator.getEmulatorPort())
+                .setProjectId(PROJECT_ID)
+                .setInstanceId(INSTANCE_ID)
+                .build());
+
+            client.mutateRow(RowMutation.create("test-table", "1")
+                .setCell("name", "firstName", "Ray"));
+
+            Row row = client.readRow("test-table", "1");
+            List<RowCell> cells = row.getCells("name", "firstName");
+
+            assertThat(cells).isNotNull().hasSize(1);
+            assertThat(cells.get(0).getValue().toStringUtf8()).isEqualTo("Ray");
+        } finally {
+            channel.shutdown();
+        }
+    }
+    // }
+
+    // createTable {
+    private void createTable(TransportChannelProvider channelProvider, CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider, String tableName) throws IOException {
+        EnhancedBigtableTableAdminStub stub = EnhancedBigtableTableAdminStub
+            .createEnhanced(BigtableTableAdminStubSettings.newBuilder()
+                .setTransportChannelProvider(channelProvider)
+                .setCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
+                .build());
+
+        try (BigtableTableAdminClient client = BigtableTableAdminClient.create(PROJECT_ID, INSTANCE_ID, stub)) {
+            Table table = client.createTable(CreateTableRequest.of(tableName).addFamily("name"));
+        }
+    }
+    // }
+}