Samuel Garcia
Member since 2022
Silver League
5400 points
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture
Earned May 31, 2023 EDT
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud
Earned May 7, 2023 EDT
On Premises Management, Security, and Upgrade with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
Earned Apr 18, 2023 EDT
Securing Cloud with Palo Alto Networks
Earned Apr 13, 2023 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production
Earned Mar 19, 2023 EDT
Architecting and Installing the Apigee Hybrid API Platform
Earned Feb 12, 2023 EST
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform on Google Cloud
Earned Feb 10, 2023 EST
Hybrid Cloud Modernizing Applications with Anthos
Earned Feb 9, 2023 EST
Modernizing Mainframe Applications with Google Cloud
Earned Feb 8, 2023 EST
DEPRECATED Network Performance and Optimization
Earned Feb 4, 2023 EST
DevOps Essentials
Earned Feb 3, 2023 EST
Running SAP Workloads on Google Cloud: Fundamentals
Earned Jan 8, 2023 EST
Building Scalable Java Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
Earned Dec 25, 2022 EST
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned Dec 18, 2022 EST
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned Nov 13, 2022 EST
Inside Track: SQL Server - Advanced
Earned Oct 31, 2022 EDT
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Oct 9, 2022 EDT
Inside Track: Cloud Network Operations: Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Earned Sep 26, 2022 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Sep 20, 2022 EDT
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network
Earned Sep 20, 2022 EDT
Inside Track: DORA
Earned Sep 15, 2022 EDT
Deploy and Manage Apigee X
Earned Aug 27, 2022 EDT
On Premises Installation and Fundamentals with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
Earned Aug 15, 2022 EDT
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.
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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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This course discusses the management and operation of the Apigee platform for private cloud.
It includes topics on operational practices, API deployment, analytics, security and upgrade of the platform. This is the second course of the Installing and Managing Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for Private Cloud course series. After completing this course, enroll in the On Premises Capacity Upgrade and Monitoring with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course.
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Prisma™ Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is a cloud native security platform that enables cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) for comprehensive visibility and threat detection across your organization’s hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure. Prisma Cloud is driven by APIs and deployed agents called Defenders. Because Prisma Cloud supports any Kubernetes platform, organizations gain a consistent security posture across on-premises, cloud and multi-cloud environments.
In this quest, you will learn how Prisma Cloud provides organizations with unmatched visibility and defense-in-depth for workloads and applications running on Google Cloud Platform.
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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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This course introduces you to the fundamentals and practices used to install and manage Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for hybrid cloud.
Through a combination of lectures, a hands-on lab, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to install and operate the Apigee API Platform.
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Organizations around the world rely on Apache Kafka to integrate existing systems in real time and build a new class of event streaming applications that unlock new business opportunities. Google and Confluent are in a partnership to deliver the best event streaming service based on Apache Kafka and to build event driven applications and big data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. In this course, you will first learn how to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka, then try out the different functionalities of the Confluent Platform.
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Course four of the Anthos series prepares students to consider multiple approaches for modernizing applications and services within Anthos environments. Topics include optimizing workloads on serverless platforms and migrating workloads to Anthos. This course is a continuation of course three, Anthos on Bare Metal, and assumes direct experience with the topics covered in that course.
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This course enables system integrators and partners to understand the principles of automated migrations, plan legacy system migrations to Google Cloud leveraging G4 Platform, and execute a trial code conversion.
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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.
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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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Ready to build an AI-ready future for your SAP applications? Modernization isn't just about moving to the cloud anymore—it’s about centralizing your enterprise data so AI agents have the context to make accurate and real-time decisions. In this course, you'll walk away with a clear mental model of the different options to deploy your SAP landscape, centralize your enterprise data, and build impactful agentic solutions.
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The microservices architecture describes a software design pattern in which an application is a collection of loosely coupled services. These services are fine-grained, and can be individually maintained and scaled. The microservices architecture is ideal for the public cloud, with its focus on elastic scaling with on-demand resources. In this course, you will build a Java application using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud on Google Cloud.
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In this Quest, the experienced user of Google Cloud will learn how to describe and launch cloud resources with Terraform, an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. In these nine hands-on labs, you will work with example templates and understand how to launch a range of configurations, from simple servers, through full load-balanced applications.
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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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This course further explores SQL Server on Google Cloud.
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Containerized applications have changed the game and are here to stay. With Kubernetes, you can orchestrate containers with ease, and integration with the Google Cloud Platform is seamless. In this advanced-level quest, you will be exposed to a wide range of Kubernetes use cases and will get hands-on practice architecting solutions over the course of 8 labs. From building Slackbots with NodeJS, to deploying game servers on clusters, to running the Cloud Vision API, Kubernetes Solutions will show you first-hand how agile and powerful this container orchestration system is.
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This course provides an overview of Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting on Google Cloud.
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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 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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DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment) is a research program, an assessment tool, a report publisher, and more. Together, these products create a compelling customer story that defines the industry standard for successful DevOps and technology transformation, and provides personalized steps to accelerate the customer journey. DORA enables Googlers and Partners to bring DevOps research and practices to Google Cloud Customers. This course provides an introduction to DORA and a guide on how to successfully complete a DORA assessment for your customer. Engaging customers in DORA assessment provides invaluable insights into the customer’s organization, and helps you better support your customer. The DORA training was originally designed for and only made available to Google Teams, however we’ve recognized how beneficial it would be for our Partners and are now offering our Partners exclusive access to the DORA training and products, so they can benefit from DORA’s research and practices …
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Apigee X skill badge course, where you learn about the Apigee X architecture, how to provision an Apigee X organization within a Google Cloud project, the management of Apigee X using the Apigee API and UI, and the use of Cloud Armor and Apigee threat protection policies to protect your APIs.
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This course introduces you to the fundamentals and advanced practices applicable to the installation and management of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for private cloud.
Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials,
you will learn how to design, install, secure, manage, and scale Apigee API Platform.
This is the first course of the Installing and Managing Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for Private Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the On Premises Management, Security, and Upgrade with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course.
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