Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
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Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals
Earned Sep 20, 2023 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 14, 2023 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Earned Sep 13, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Sep 8, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Sep 7, 2023 EDT
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Generative AI applications can create new user experiences that were nearly impossible before the invention of large language models (LLMs). As an application developer, how can you use generative AI to build engaging, powerful apps on Google Cloud?
In this course, you'll learn about generative AI applications and how you can use prompt design and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to build powerful applications using LLMs. You'll learn about a production-ready architecture that can be used for generative AI applications and you'll build an LLM and RAG-based chat application.
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This course introduces the products and solutions to solve NLP problems on Google Cloud. Additionally, it explores the processes, techniques, and tools to develop an NLP project with neural networks by using Vertex AI and TensorFlow.
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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios.
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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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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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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 Identity, Resource Manager, IAM, Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Peering, Cloud Interconnect, and VPC Service Controls.
This is the first course of the Security in Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Security Best Practices in Google Cloud course.
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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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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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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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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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In this course, you'll learn about Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security; logging and monitoring; and using Google Cloud managed storage and database services from within GKE.
This is the second course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process course or the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos course.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security skill badge course, where you learn how to leverage Chrome Enterprise Premium to provide secure access to critical apps and services, improve your security posture with a modern Zero Trust platform, securely provide access to resources using identity and context-aware access control, and support hybrid cloud workloads using Client Connector.
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Complete the introductory Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API) to inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data in Google Cloud.
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This on-demand course equips students to understand, configure, and maintain
multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructures using Anthos GKE, and Istio-based
service mesh, whether deployed with Anthos on Google Cloud or with Anthos
deployed on VMware.
This is the third, and final, course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud
Infrastructure with Anthos series.
Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a
prerequisite for this course.
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This on-demand course equips students to understand and adopt Istio-based
service-mesh with Anthos for centralized observability, traffic management,
and service-level security.
This is the second course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with
Anthos series. After completing this course, learners should continue to the
Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos course.
Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a
prerequisite for this course.
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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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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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Introduction to Cloud Identity serves as the starting place for any new Cloud Identity, Identity/Access Management/Mobile Device Management admins as they begin their journey of managing and establishing security and access management best practices for their organization. This 15-30 hour accelerated, one-week course will leave you feeling confident to utilize the basic functions of the Admin Console to manage users, control access to services, configure common security settings, and much more. Through a series of introductory lessons, step-by-step hands-on exercises, Google knowledge resources, and knowledge checks, learners can expect to leave this training with all of the skills they need to get started as new Cloud Identity Administrators.
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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to develop more secure applications, implement federated identity management, and integrate application components by using messaging, event-driven processing, and API gateways. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the second course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance course.
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Complete the introductory Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: granting and revoking IAM permissions; installing monitoring and logging agents; creating, deploying, and testing an event-driven Cloud Run function.
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In this quest you will get hands-on experience writing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud quest, where you learn how to work with VPC networks and load balancers on Google Cloud. 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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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.
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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.
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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 Associate Cloud Engineer 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.
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This course, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started. This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine Learning Engineering professionals use tools for continuous improvement and evaluation of deployed models. They work with (or can be) Data Scientists, who develop models, to enable velocity and rigor in deploying the best performing models.
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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Vertex AI empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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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 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.
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Google Workspace with Gemini provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this mini-course, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Google Slides.
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Google Workspace with Gemini provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this learning path, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Google Workspace.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Generative AI Explorer - Vertex Quest is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the models in the Vertex AI PaLM API family, including text-bison, chat-bison, and textembedding-gecko. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via Vertex AI custom training and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
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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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This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.
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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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Google Cloud Application Programming Interfaces are the mechanism to interact with Google Cloud Services programmatically. This quest will give you hands-on practice with a variety of GCP APIs, which you will learn through working with Google’s APIs Explorer, a tool that allows you to browse APIs and run their methods interactively. By learning how to transfer data between Cloud Storage buckets, deploy Compute Engine instances, configure Dataproc clusters and much more, Exploring APIs will show you how powerful APIs are and why they are used almost exclusively by proficient GCP users. Enroll in this quest today.
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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 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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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.
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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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For everyone using Google Cloud Platform for the first time, getting familar with gcloud, Google Cloud's command line, will help you get up to speed faster. In this quest, you'll learn how to install and configure Cloud SDK, then use gcloud to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, using BigQuery, and using gsutil to perform operations.
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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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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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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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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
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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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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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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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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.
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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.
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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.
Streamline App Development with Gemini Code Assist
Earned Apr 4, 2026 EDT
Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Agent Engine
Earned Nov 3, 2025 EST
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG
Earned Oct 25, 2025 EDT
Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI
Earned Oct 24, 2025 EDT
Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit
Earned Oct 22, 2025 EDT
Create Generative AI Apps on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 14, 2025 EDT
Natural Language Processing on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 11, 2025 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI
Earned Sep 16, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 9, 2025 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture
Earned Oct 5, 2024 EDT
Managing Security in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 26, 2024 EDT
Security Best Practices in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 6, 2024 EDT
Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center
Earned Aug 3, 2024 EDT
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment
Earned Jul 31, 2024 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security
Earned Jul 25, 2024 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production
Earned Jul 18, 2024 EDT
Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security
Earned Jul 2, 2024 EDT
Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection
Earned Jul 1, 2024 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos
Earned Jun 29, 2024 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Service Mesh with Anthos
Earned Jun 27, 2024 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Routing and Addressing
Earned Jun 23, 2024 EDT
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 22, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Cloud Identity
Earned Jun 18, 2024 EDT
Securing and Integrating Components of your Application
Earned Jun 18, 2024 EDT
Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources
Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Creating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
DEPRECATED Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Jan 21, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud
Earned Jan 19, 2024 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations
Earned Jan 18, 2024 EST
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network
Earned Jan 18, 2024 EST
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned Jan 17, 2024 EST
DevOps Essentials
Earned Jan 12, 2024 EST
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Jan 12, 2024 EST
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Jan 12, 2024 EST
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Jan 11, 2024 EST
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Jan 11, 2024 EST
Cloud Engineering
Earned Jan 11, 2024 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started - Locales
Earned Jan 11, 2024 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Jan 8, 2024 EST
Gemini for end-to-end SDLC
Earned Jan 7, 2024 EST
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud
Earned Jan 6, 2024 EST
Gemini for Application Developers
Earned Jan 5, 2024 EST
Gemini in Google Slides
Earned Jan 4, 2024 EST
Introduction to Google Workspace with Gemini
Earned Jan 4, 2024 EST
Gemini for DevOps Engineers
Earned Jan 4, 2024 EST
Gemini for Security Engineers
Earned Jan 3, 2024 EST
Gemini for Network Engineers
Earned Jan 3, 2024 EST
Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI
Earned Dec 29, 2023 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Dec 29, 2023 EST
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Dec 28, 2023 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Dec 28, 2023 EST
Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Dec 28, 2023 EST
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned Dec 28, 2023 EST
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud
Earned Dec 28, 2023 EST
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey
Earned Dec 17, 2023 EST
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Dec 5, 2023 EST
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs
Earned Nov 16, 2023 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 27, 2023 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Oct 24, 2023 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Earned Oct 23, 2023 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned Oct 20, 2023 EDT
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line
Earned Oct 18, 2023 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 11, 2023 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations
Earned Oct 11, 2023 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 2, 2023 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
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Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
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