diff --git a/bom/pom.xml b/bom/pom.xml
index a22baf18..3563d42e 100644
--- a/bom/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
 
-        <google-cloud-sdk.version>26.45.0</google-cloud-sdk.version>
+        <google-cloud-sdk.version>26.49.0</google-cloud-sdk.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency convergence issues -->
         <opencensus.version>0.31.1</opencensus.version><!-- mess in google-pubsub and grpc deps; should be rather stable as OpenCensus has been sunsetted already - see https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/issues/862 -->
diff --git a/integration-tests/main/src/main/java/io/quarkiverse/googlecloudservices/it/BigtableResource.java b/integration-tests/main/src/main/java/io/quarkiverse/googlecloudservices/it/BigtableResource.java
index aff28ae2..a285c3a3 100644
--- a/integration-tests/main/src/main/java/io/quarkiverse/googlecloudservices/it/BigtableResource.java
+++ b/integration-tests/main/src/main/java/io/quarkiverse/googlecloudservices/it/BigtableResource.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.internal.TableAdminRequestContext;
 import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;
 import jakarta.annotation.PreDestroy;
 import jakarta.inject.Inject;
@@ -63,7 +64,9 @@ void initBigtable() throws IOException {
                             .newBuilder()
                             .setTransportChannelProvider(channelProvider)
                             .setCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
-                            .build());
+                            .build(),
+                    TableAdminRequestContext.create(projectId, INSTANCE_ID)
+            );
 
             try (BigtableTableAdminClient adminClient = BigtableTableAdminClient.create(projectId, INSTANCE_ID, stub)) {
                 if (!adminClient.exists(TABLE_ID)) {