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Grant Ashenden

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Introduction to Gemini Enterprise Earned Mar 16, 2026 EDT
Build Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK) Earned Mar 11, 2026 EDT
Understand Google Cloud Agents Earned Mar 8, 2026 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned Feb 4, 2026 EST
Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned Jan 27, 2026 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Jan 7, 2026 EST
Troubleshooting with AI Using Cloud Assist Investigations Earned Dec 29, 2025 EST
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned Dec 29, 2025 EST
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment Earned Oct 9, 2025 EDT
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud Earned Sep 10, 2025 EDT
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned Aug 29, 2025 EDT
Observability in Google Cloud Earned Aug 21, 2025 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Aug 13, 2025 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads Earned Jul 31, 2025 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Jul 21, 2025 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations Earned Jul 2, 2025 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned May 29, 2025 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned May 15, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned Mar 10, 2025 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Jan 27, 2025 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Dec 23, 2024 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Nov 15, 2024 EST

This course introduces Gemini Enteprise, a powerful platform that brings together AI agents, enterprise search, NotebookLM, and intelligent data access to solve organizational challenges. Through real-world examples and hands-on exploration, learners will be able to connect Gemini Enterprise capabilities to real business needs, describe its architecture, and explain how it handles data access and privacy across roles.

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Learn about how you can use Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build complex, production-ready AI agents. This course covers ADK’s open-source framework, moving from simple prompt engineering to a code-first, structured software development approach suitable for enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems.

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This course provides a comprehensive overview of Google Cloud's agent platforms, including Vertex AI Agent Builder, Gemini Enterprise, Conversational Agents, and the Agent Development Kit. Learners will understand the unique capabilities of each offering, distinguish between the optimal solution for specific use cases, and gain foundational knowledge in creating search and chat applications.

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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 Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: managing deployments with kubectl, monitoring and debugging applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and continuous delivery techniques.

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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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Cloud Assist Investigations is an AI-enabled tool for iterative troubleshooting in Google Cloud environments, and aims to help users troubleshoot common issues to find the root cause of problems that may occur when using Google Cloud services. This course equips DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers with the skills to effectively use Cloud Assist Investigations for streamlined troubleshooting of Google Cloud services. The training focuses on foundational knowledge of Cloud Assist Investigations, with the intent to reduce troubleshooting time and enhance overall operational efficiency for users of Google Cloud.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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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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Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating git repositories with Cloud Source 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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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 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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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 "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Workloads", you'll embark on a comprehensive journey into cloud-native application development. Throughout the learning experience, you'll explore Kubernetes operations, deployment management, GKE networking, and persistent storage. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Production course.

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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

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In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations," you get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads course.

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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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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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This course introduces Google Cloud's AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, with a focus on developing both generative and predictive AI projects. It explores the various technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI lifecycle, empowering data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers to enhance their expertise through interactive exercises.

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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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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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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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