Andrii Tkach
Member since 2023
Diamond League
25592 points
Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing
Earned Nov 20, 2025 EST
Build a Certification Study Guide: PCSE Exam Prep
Earned Nov 13, 2025 EST
Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center
Earned Nov 13, 2025 EST
Securing your Network with Cloud Armor
Earned Nov 13, 2025 EST
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment
Earned Nov 11, 2025 EST
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 10, 2025 EST
Security Best Practices in Google Cloud
Earned Nov 6, 2025 EST
Manage Security in Google Cloud
Earned Oct 31, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid and Multicloud
Earned Oct 28, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Load Balancing
Earned Oct 27, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Network Security
Earned Oct 23, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Network Architecture
Earned Oct 22, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Routing and Addressing
Earned Oct 20, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals
Earned Oct 17, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Security in the World of AI
Earned Oct 16, 2025 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security
Earned Oct 14, 2025 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 13, 2025 EDT
Observability in Google Cloud
Earned Oct 9, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing
Earned Oct 8, 2025 EDT
Create and Manage Bigtable Instances
Earned Sep 27, 2023 EDT
Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances
Earned Sep 25, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Enterprise Database Migration
Earned Sep 25, 2023 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Jun 30, 2023 EDT
Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 30, 2023 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Jun 28, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for Azure Professionals
Earned Jun 25, 2023 EDT
Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals
Earned Jun 25, 2023 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Jun 24, 2023 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Jun 21, 2023 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned Jun 16, 2023 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Jun 14, 2023 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 12, 2023 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 12, 2023 EDT
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability
Earned Jun 9, 2023 EDT
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud
Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 7, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Operations and Service Mesh with Anthos
Earned Jun 6, 2023 EDT
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud
Earned Jun 2, 2023 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud
Earned Jun 1, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Architecture: Design Principles
Earned May 26, 2023 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture
Earned May 20, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned May 18, 2023 EDT
This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification exam. You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook, and learn how to use a study guide to practice for the certification exam.
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Complete the intermediate Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: preventing and managing environment threats, identifying and mitigating application vulnerabilities, and responding to security anomalies.
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Learn to secure your deployments on Google Cloud, including: how to use Cloud Armor bot management to mitigate bot risk and control access from automated clients; use Cloud Armor denylists to restrict or allow access to your HTTP(S) load balancer at the edge of the Google Cloud; apply Cloud Armor security policies to restrict access to cache objects on Cloud CDN and Google Cloud Storage; and mitigate common vulnerabilities using Cloud Armor WAF rules.
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In this course, you will learn the basic skills to implement secure and efficient DevSecOps practices on Google Cloud. You'll learn how to secure your development pipeline with Google Cloud services like Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Binary Authorization. This enables you to build, test, and deploy containerized applications with security controls throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
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In this self-paced training course, participants learn mitigations for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use. They also learn about the Security Command Center, cloud logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.
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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Storage access control technologies, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, API access controls, scoping, shielded VMs, encryption, and signed URLs. It also covers securing Kubernetes environments.
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This course provides foundational knowledge for securing your Google Cloud environment. You will learn Google Cloud's security model, including Zero Trust principles and the Shared Fate model. You will configure identity services like Cloud Identity and Workforce Identity Federation, manage access control using Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, conditions, and policies, and implement network security controls such as VPCs, Cloud Firewall tiers, and VPC Service Controls to build a secure perimeter.
As the foundation of the Security in Google Cloud learning path, this course establishes the core principles required for two subsequent specialized tracks: the five-course Security Best Practices in Google Cloud series and the four-course Mitigate Threats in Google Cloud series.
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Welcome to the sixth course in our Networking and Google Cloud series, Hybrid and Multicloud. The first module will walk you through various cloud connectivity options, with a deep dive into Cloud Interconnect, exploring its different types and functionalities. In the second module, we'll cover Cloud VPN, discussing its implementation, high availability, VPN topologies, and the Network Connectivity Center for streamline management. By the end of this course, you will be able to explain the different connectivity options available to extend your on-premises and other cloud networks to Google Cloud, and analyze the suitability of different Google Cloud hybrid and multicloud connectivity services for specific use cases.
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This training course builds on the concepts covered in the Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals course. Through presentations, demonstrations, and labs, participants explore and implement Cloud Load Balancing.
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Welcome to the fourth course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Security!
In this course, you'll dive into the services for safeguarding your Google Cloud network infrastructure.
The first module, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection, covers how to fortify your network against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, ensuring uninterrupted availability of your services.
In the second module, Controlling Access to VPC Networks, you'll learn the network access control, enabling you to define permissions for who can access your resources and how.
Finally, in the third module, Advanced Security Monitoring and Analysis, we'll explore how to proactively detect and respond to potential threats, keeping your Google Cloud environment secure and resilient.
By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of Google Cloud network security.
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Welcome to the third course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Architecture!
In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of designing efficient and scalable network architectures within Google Cloud.
In the first module, Introduction to Network Architecture, we'll start by introducing you to the core components and concepts of network architecture, including subnets, routes, firewalls, and load balancing.
Then in the second module, network topologies, we'll dive into various network topologies commonly used in Google Cloud, discussing their strengths, and weaknesses.
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Welcome to the second course in the networking and Google Cloud series routing and addressing.
In this course, we'll cover the central routing and addressing concepts that are relevant to Google Cloud's networking capabilities.
Module one will lay the foundation by exploring network routing and addressing in Google Cloud, covering key building blocks such as routing IPv4, bringing your own IP addresses and setting up cloud DNS. In Module two will shift our focus to private connection options, exploring use cases and methods for accessing Google and other services privately using internal IP addresses.
By the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of how to effectively route and address your network traffic within Google Cloud.
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Networking in Google cloud is a 6 part course series. Welcome to the first course of our six part course series, Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of core networking concepts, including networking fundamentals, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and the sharing of VPC networks. Additionally, the course covers network logging and monitoring techniques.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative possibilities, but it also introduces new security challenges. This course equips security and data protection leaders with strategies to securely manage AI within their organizations. Learn a framework for proactively identifying and mitigating AI-specific risks, protecting sensitive data, ensuring compliance, and building a resilient AI infrastructure. Pick use cases from four different industries to explore how these strategies apply in real-world scenarios.
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Get Anthos Ready. This Google Kubernetes Engine-centric quest of best practice hands-on labs focuses on security at scale when deploying and managing production GKE environments -- specifically role-based access control, hardening, VPC networking, and binary authorization.
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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.
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Welcome to Observability in Google Cloud, the second part of a two-part course series. It is suggested that you complete part 1, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, prior to taking this course.
This course is all about application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.
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This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Bigtable Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating instances, designing schemas, querying data, and performing administrative tasks in Bigtable including monitoring performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: performing core AlloyDB operations and tasks, migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL, administering an AlloyDB database, and accelerating analytical queries using the AlloyDB Columnar Engine.
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This course is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs participants move databases to Google Cloud while taking advantage of various services.
This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.
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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Data Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud skill badge course where you learn how to use Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. You interact with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, Cloud Run, and GKE. This course teaches you how to build continuous integration pipelines, store and secure artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, attest to the validity of approved releases. Additionally, you get hands-on experience deploying applications to both GKE and Cloud Run.
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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for Azure Professionals course, where you learn how to configure IAM permission, orchestrate workloads using Kubernetes, host a web application using compute engine, and configure load balancing. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals course, where you learn how to configure IAM permission, orchestrate workloads using Kubernetes, host a web application using compute engine, and configure load balancing.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.
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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics.
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Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing Git repositories, launching, managing, and scaling deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and architecting CI/CD pipelines that automate container image builds and deployments to GKE.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.
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Course two of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud with Anthos series prepares students to operate and observe Anthos environments. Through presentations and hands-on labs, participants explore adjusting existing clusters, setting up advanced traffic routing policies, securing communication across workloads, and observing clusters in Anthos. This course is a continuation of course one, Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud with Anthos, and assumes direct experience with the topics covered in that course.
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This course provides an introduction to using Terraform for Google Cloud. It enables learners to describe how Terraform can be used to implement infrastructure as code and to apply some of its key features and functionalities to create and manage Google Cloud infrastructure.
Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources using Terraform.
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Welcome to the two-part course on Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud. The core operations tools in Google Cloud break down into two major categories. The operations-focused components and the application performance management tools. This course, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, covers the operations-focused components including Logging, Monitoring, and Service Monitoring. After taking this course, it is suggested that you complete part 2, Observability in Google Cloud, to learn about the available application performance management tools.
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In this course, you’ll learn how to apply the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework to design resilient, production-grade cloud environments. You’ll analyze real-world challenges across six distinct industries to balance competing priorities like low-latency performance, ironclad security, and carbon efficiency. By the end, you'll possess a practical architectural playbook and the critical thinking skills needed to lead reviews and optimize cloud workloads in the field.
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In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
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