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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice with GCP’s core infrastructure services, do yourself a favor and enroll in this quest. As a student, you will get practical experience by taking labs that dive into Cloud Storage, computing engines like Kubernetes, and key application services like Stackdriver and Deployment Manager. By taking this quest, you will develop invaluable skills that apply to any GCP project. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
Prerequisites
This Quest builds on a basic understanding of the Google Cloud Platform, the Console and its Services. It is recommended that the student have earned a Badge by completing the hands-on labs in the GCP Essentials Quest before beginning.Quest Outline
Cloud Storage: Qwik Start - Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to perform basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the Google Cloud Platform Console. Watch the short video Google Cloud Storage: Massive Scalability Plus More.
Cloud Storage: Qwik Start - CLI/SDK
This hands-on lab shows you how to perform basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the gsutil command-line tool. Watch the short video Google Cloud Storage: Massive Scalability Plus More.
Cloud IAM: Qwik Start
Google Cloud IAM unifies access control for Cloud Platform services into a single system to present a consistent set of operations. Watch the short video Manage Access Control with Google Cloud IAM.
Kubernetes Engine: Qwik Start
Google Kubernetes Engine provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling your containerized applications using Google infrastructure. This hands-on lab shows you how deploy a containerized application with Kubernetes Engine. Watch the short video Manage Containerized Apps with Kubernetes Engine.
Container Registry: Qwik Start
This hands-on lab demonstrates how to build a Docker image and push it to Google Container Registry.
Deployment Manager: Qwik Start
This hands-on lab shows you how use Deployment Manager to create a simple configuration file, and deploy that configuration to create a running environment in the Google Cloud. Watch the short video Easily Manage Resources with Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
Stackdriver: Qwik Start
This lab shows you how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Stackdriver. Watch the short videos Monitor Health of All Your Cloud Apps with Google Stackdriver and Monitor a VM Instance with Stackdriver, GCP Essentials.
Cloud Functions: Qwik Start - Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to create and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Console. Watch the short video Connect & Extend GCP Services with Google Cloud Functions.
Cloud Functions: Qwik Start - Command Line
This hands-on lab shows you how to create and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Command Line. Watch the short video Connect & Extend GCP Services with Google Cloud Functions.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Google Cloud Platform Console. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Command Line
This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Google Cloud command line. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Python
In this lab, you learn about Pub/Sub and how to create a topic and subscriber with a Python script, and then publish and view messages. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
Cloud Spanner: Qwik Start
This lab shows how to perform basic operations in Cloud Spanner using the Google Cloud Platform Console. Watch the short video Get a Highly Consistent, Scalable Database Service with Cloud Spanner.
Cloud SQL for MySQL: Qwik Start
Create a Google Cloud SQL MySQL instance and perform SQL operations using Google Cloud Platform Console and mysql client. Watch this short video, Manage PostgreSQL and MySQL Databases Easily with Cloud SQL.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Qwik Start
Create a Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL instance. Perform SQL operations using the GCP Console and the psql client.
Internet of Things: Qwik Start
This lab shows you how to use Google Cloud Platform Console to create a Cloud IoT Core device registry and register a device. It also shows you how to run a sample to connect a device and publish device telemetry events.
Compute Engine: Qwik Start - Windows
Google Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. In this lab you create a Windows Server instance in the Google Compute Engine and access it with RDP. Watch a short preview, Launch a Windows Server Instance, GCP Essentials.
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