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Francisco Crespo Smith

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Gold League

8587 points
Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Earned Jan 15, 2026 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Jan 14, 2026 EST
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned Jan 7, 2026 EST
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment Earned Dec 22, 2025 EST
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Troubleshooting with AI Using Cloud Assist Investigations Earned Nov 28, 2025 EST
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned Nov 28, 2025 EST
Observability in Google Cloud Earned Nov 26, 2025 EST
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Nov 22, 2025 EST
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Earned Nov 18, 2025 EST
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned Nov 6, 2025 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Nov 4, 2025 EST

Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus skill badge course, where you learn Kubernetes Monitoring with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.

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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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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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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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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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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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This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.

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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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