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This structured course is for developers interested in building intelligent agents using the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It combines hands-on experience, core concepts, and practical application, to provide a comprehensive guide to using ADK. You can also join our community of Google Cloud experts and peers to ask questions, collaborate on answers, and connect with the Googlers making the products you use every day.
In this course, you’ll learn to use the Google Agent Development Kit to build complex, multi-agent systems. You will build agents equipped with tools, and connect them with parent-child relationships and flows to define how they interact. You’ll run your agents locally and deploy them to Vertex AI Agent Engine to run as a managed agentic flow, with infrastructure decisions and resource scaling handled by Agent Engine. Please note these labs are based off a pre-released version of this product. There may be some lag on these labs as we provide maintenance updates.
This on-demand course provides partners the skills required to design, deploy, and monitor Vertail AI Search for Commerce solutions including retail search and recommendation AI for enterprise customers.
Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine.
Designed for developers of all levels, this course introduces you to the core features and functionalities of Gemini Code Assist, an AI-powered app development collaborator for Google Cloud. From intelligent code suggestions and auto-completion to real-time error detection and refactoring assistance, you'll discover how Gemini Code Assist can significantly enhance your productivity and code quality, and save valuable time to focus on more productive and enjoyable tasks.
In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Kickstarting Application Development with Gemini Code Assist course, where you will learn to leverage the power of Google's AI coding assistant and multiple development tech
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.
Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run.
Complete the introductory Monitoring in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Cloud Monitoring tools to monitor resources on Google Cloud.
Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API.
Complete the introductory Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using APIs to work with Cloud Storage resources, including the Cloud Storage API.
Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute skill badge course, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine.
Complete the intermediate Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating datasets in BigQuery by importing CSV and JSON files; harnessing the power of BigQuery with sophisticated SQL analytical concepts, including using BigQuery ML to train an expected goals model on soccer event data and evaluate the impressiveness of World Cup goals.
Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini.
Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in text generation, image and video analysis for enhanced content creation, and applying function calling techniques within the Gemini API. Discover how to leverage sophisticated Gemini techniques, explore multimodal content generation, and expand the capabilities of your AI-powered projects.
Complete the intermediate Enhance Gemini Model Capabilities skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: leveraging advanced features of Gemini models, including code generation and execution, grounding, controlled content generation, and synthetic data creation, to build more powerful and sophisticated AI applications.
Complete the intermediate Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge course to demonstrate skills in text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. In this course, you learn Gemini prompting, test Streamlit apps in Cloud Shell, and deploy them as Docker containers in Cloud Run.
Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.
Complete the intermediate Implement Multimodal Vector Search with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Gemini in BigQuery to generate and debug SQL, conduct sentiment analysis, summarize text and identify keywords, generate embeddings, create a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, and implement multimodal vector search.
Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML.
Complete the advanced Deploy Multi-Agent Architectures skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building multi-agent systems with ADK, connecting agents with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, integrating external tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and deploying a complete multi-agent solution to Agent Engine.
In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you secure your cloud environment and resources. You learn how to deploy example workloads into an environment in Google Cloud, identify security misconfigurations with Gemini, and remediate security misconfigurations with Gemini. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves your cloud security posture. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps network engineers create, update, and maintain VPC networks. You learn how to prompt Gemini to provide specific guidance for your networking tasks, beyond what you would receive from a search engine. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini makes it easier for you to work with Google Cloud VPC networks. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps engineers manage infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to find and understand application logs, create a GKE cluster, and investigate how to create a build environment. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the DevOps workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.
In this course, you learn how to develop an app using Flutter, Google's portable UI toolkit, and integrate the app with Gemini, Google's family of generative AI models. You also use Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google's platform for building and managing AI Agents and applications.
Build AI agents that can leverage enterprise databases using the MCP Toolbox for Databases. You will define secure database interaction tools, and implement intelligent querying capabilities (leveraging vector embeddings, structured queries).
This course reviews the essential security features of Model Armor and equips you to work with the service. You’ll learn about the security risks associated with LLMs and how Model Armor protects your AI applications.
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.
This course will teach you how to build conversational experiences for Conversational Agents using Generative Playbooks. You'll start with an introduction to playbooks and learn how to set up your first one. You'll also learn about the importance of testing, as well as key production considerations like quota limits and integration. The course concludes with a case study that shows how to use playbooks for generative steering.
This video covers how to use Gemini and Apps Script to automate manual tasks across Google Workspace. You'll learn to prompt Gemini to generate Apps Script code that automatically drafts email reminders in Google Sheets for tasks not marked 'Complete.' Automate your workflow with little to no technical expertise, freeing up time for more important work and eliminating manual follow-ups.
Unlock the power of generative AI to create intelligent, automated agents. After completing this course, you'll be equipped to develop a data store agent that can instantly answer complex questions by automatically extracting and synthesizing information from your websites, documents, or structured data. Say goodbye to static FAQs—your new agent will provide dynamic, accurate answers and even surface the original source URLs, all with a simple and rapid setup.
Earn the Introductory skill badge by completing the Configure Service Accounts and IAM Roles for Google Cloud course, where you learn about service accounts, custom roles, and how to set permissions using gcloud .
Earn a Introductory skill badge by completing the Build Serverless Applications with Cloud Run Functions course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line.
Complete the introductory Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: image recognition, natural language processing, image generation using Google's powerful Gemini and Imagen models, deploying applications on the Vertex AI platform.
Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI course. In this course, you learn how to extract, process, and capture data using Document AI.
Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale. It can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs and, even better, analyze all that log data in real time. In this fundamental-level Quest, you learn how to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud. The labs in the Quest give you hands-on practice using Cloud Logging to maximize your learning experience and provide insight on how you can use Cloud Logging to your own Google Cloud environment.
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.
Learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. These labs will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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.
Kubernetes è il sistema di orchestrazione dei container più diffuso e Google Kubernetes Engine è stato progettato specificamente per supportare i deployment Kubernetes gestiti in Google Cloud. In questo corso di livello avanzato, potrai esercitarti nella configurazione di immagini e container Docker e nel deployment di applicazioni Kubernetes Engine complete. Grazie a questo corso, apprenderai le competenze pratiche necessarie per integrare l'orchestrazione dei container nel tuo workflow. Stai cercando un Challenge Lab pratico per dimostrare le tue abilità e convalidare le tue conoscenze? Dopo aver completato questo corso, termina il Challenge Lab aggiuntivo alla fine del corso Esegui il deployment di applicazioni Kubernetes su Google Cloud per ricevere un esclusivo badge digitale Google Cloud.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.
Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.
Networking is a principle theme of cloud computing. It’s the underlying structure of Google Cloud, and it’s what connects all your resources and services to one another. This course will cover essential Google Cloud networking services and will give you hands-on practice with specialized tools for developing mature networks. From learning the ins-and-outs of VPCs, to creating enterprise-grade load balancers, Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.
This is the second Quest in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This Quest is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Here you'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits, and taking advantage of committed use discounts. In the hands-on labs, you’ll practice using various tools to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.
This course is most suitable for those working in a technology or finance role who are responsible for managing Google Cloud costs. You’ll learn how to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage billing access permissions. In the hands-on labs, you'll learn how to view your invoice, track your Google Cloud costs with Billing reports, analyze your billing data with BigQuery or Google Sheets, and create custom billing dashboards with Looker Studio. References made to links in the videos can be accessed in this Additional Resources document.
Guadagna un badge delle competenze completando il corso Creazione di una rete Google Cloud sicura, in cui scoprirai più risorse di networking per creare, scalare e proteggere le tue applicazioni su Google Cloud.
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.
This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
Guadagna un badge delle competenze completando il corso Sviluppa la tua rete Google Cloud, in cui apprenderai diversi modi per eseguire il deployment e il monitoraggio delle applicazioni, tra cui: esplorare i ruoli IAM e aggiungere/rimuovere l'accesso ai progetti, creare reti VPC, eseguire il deployment e il monitoraggio delle VM di Compute Engine, scrivere query SQL, eseguire il deployment e il monitoraggio delle VM in Compute Engine ed eseguire il deployment delle applicazioni utilizzando Kubernetes con più approcci al deployment.
Questo corso introduttivo è unico tra le altre offerte di corsi. I lab sono stati selezionati per offrire ai professionisti IT la possibilità di fare pratica su argomenti e servizi che compaiono nell'esame di certificazione Google Cloud - Associate Cloud Engineer. Da IAM al networking, al deployment di Kubernetes Engine, questo corso si compone di lab specifici che metteranno alla prova le tue conoscenze su Google Cloud. Tieni presente che, sebbene la pratica con questi lab ti aiuterà a migliorare le tue competenze e capacità, ti consigliamo di rivedere anche la guida all'esame e altre risorse di preparazione disponibili.
Ottieni il corso intermedio con badge delle competenze Prepara i dati per le API ML su Google Cloud per dimostrare le tue competenze nei seguenti ambiti: pulizia dei dati con Dataprep di Trifacta, esecuzione delle pipeline di dati in Dataflow, creazione dei cluster ed esecuzione dei job Apache Spark in Dataproc e richiamo delle API ML tra cui l'API Cloud Natural Language, l'API Google Cloud Speech-to-Text e l'API Video Intelligence.
Obtain a competitive advantage through DevOps. DevOps is an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. In this course you will learn how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. DevOps Research and Assessment has joined Google Cloud. How does your team measure up? Take this five question multiple-choice quiz and find out!
Ottieni un badge delle competenze completando il corso Configura un ambiente di sviluppo di app su Google Cloud, in cui imparerai a creare e connettere un'infrastruttura cloud incentrata sull'archiviazione utilizzando le funzionalità di base delle seguenti tecnologie: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions e Pub/Sub.
Completa il corso introduttivo con badge delle competenze Implementazione di Cloud Load Balancing per Compute Engine per dimostrare le tue competenze nei seguenti ambiti: creazione ed esecuzione del deployment di macchine virtuali in Compute Engine e configurazione di bilanciatori del carico di rete e delle applicazioni.
Ottieni il badge delle competenze introduttivo completando il corso con badge delle competenze Crea un sito web su Google Cloud. Questo corso si basa sulla serie Get Cooking in Cloud e tratta i seguenti argomenti:Deployment di un sito web su Cloud RunHosting di un'app web su Compute EngineCreazione, deployment e scalabilità del tuo sito web su Google Kubernetes EngineMigrazione da un'applicazione monolitica a un'architettura di microservizi utilizzando Cloud Build
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant quest, where you will learn how to build Google Assistant applications, including how to: create an Actions project, integrate Dialogflow with an Actions project, test your application with Actions simulator, build an Assistant application with flash cards template, integrate customer MP3 files with your Assistant application, add Cloud Translation API to your Assistant application, and use APIs and integrate them into your applications. 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 the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
This introductory-level quest shows application developers how the Google Cloud ecosystem could help them build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud native applications. You learn how to develop and scale applications without setting up infrastructure, run data analytics, gain insights from data, and develop with pre-trained ML APIs to leverage machine learning even if you are not a Machine Learning expert. You will also experience seamless integration between various Google services and APIs to create intelligent apps.
The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This final course in the series reviews managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud further by earning Skill Badges.
Big data, machine learning e intelligenza artificiale sono i principali argomenti di computing trattati attualmente, ma questi campi sono piuttosto specializzati ed è complicato reperire materiale introduttivo. Fortunatamente, Google Cloud offre servizi facili da usare in queste aree e con questo corso di livello introduttivo, in modo da poter fare i primi passi con strumenti come BigQuery, API Cloud Speech e Video Intelligence.
The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.
Se sei uno sviluppatore cloud principiante che vuole fare ancora pratica Google Cloud Essentials, questo corso fa al caso tuo. Acquisirai esperienza pratica attraverso lab specifici su Cloud Storage e altri servizi per applicazioni chiave come Monitoring e Cloud Functions. Svilupperai competenze preziose applicabili a qualsiasi iniziativa Google Cloud.
Il corso Google Cloud Computing Foundations fornirà a chi ha poca o nessuna esperienza di cloud computing una panoramica dettagliata dei concetti relativi alle nozioni di base del cloud, ai big data e al machine learning, oltre che a dove e come Google Cloud si inserisce. Alla fine del corso, i partecipanti saranno in grado di descrivere i concetti relativi al cloud computing, ai big data e al machine learning e dimostrare delle competenze pratiche. Questo corso fa parte della serie di corsi Google Cloud Computing Foundations. I corsi dovrebbero essere completati nel seguente ordine: Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals - Locales Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud - Locales Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud - Locales Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud - Locales Questo secondo corso esamina l'implementazione di modelli …
Il corso Google Cloud Computing Foundations fornirà a chi ha poca o nessuna esperienza di cloud computing una panoramica dettagliata dei concetti relativi alle nozioni di base del cloud, ai big data e al machine learning, oltre che a dove e come Google Cloud si inserisce. Alla fine del corso, i partecipanti saranno in grado di descrivere questi concetti e dimostrare delle competenze pratiche. Questo corso fa parte della serie di corsi Google Cloud Computing Foundations. I corsi dovrebbero essere completati nel seguente ordine: Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals - Locales Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud - Locales Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud - Locales Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud - Locales Questo primo corso fornisce una panoramica del cloud computing, dei modi per utilizzare Google Cloud e diverse opzio…
In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.