On-demand activities
Find the right on-demand learning activities for you. Labs are short learning activities that teach you a specific lesson by giving you direct, temporary, hands-on access to real cloud resources. Courses are longer activities, consisting of several modules made of videos, documents, hands-on labs and quizzes. Finally, quests are similar, but are usually shorter and contain only labs.
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Lab Featured 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.
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Lab Featured Cloud Filestore: Qwik Start
Cloud Filestore is a managed file storage service for applications that require a filesystem interface and a shared filesystem for data. Filestore gives users a simple, native experience for standing up managed Network Attached Storage (NAS) with their Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine instances.
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Lab Featured Connected Sheets: Qwik Start
Connected Sheets, you can analyze billions of rows and petabytes of data in Google Sheets without specialized knowledge of computer languages like SQL. In this hands-on-lab, you will learn how to connect a BigQuery dataset to Google Sheets and analyze your data.
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Lab Featured APIs Explorer: Qwik Start
Upload an image to Cloud Storage then make a request to the Vision API with APIs Explorer.
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Lab Featured Cloud Composer: Qwik Start - Console
In this lab, you create a Cloud Composer environment using the GCP Console. You then use the Airflow web interface to run a workflow that verifies a data file, creates and runs an Apache Hadoop wordcount job on a Dataproc cluster, and deletes the cluster.
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Lab Featured Dataplex: Qwik Start - Command Line
This lab shows you how to get started with Dataplex using the command line by walking you through creating a lake, adding a zone, attaching and detaching assets, and deleting zones and lakes.
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Lab Featured Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Qwik Start
Create a Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL instance. Perform SQL operations using the GCP Console and the psql client.
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Lab Featured Cloud Functions 2nd Gen: Qwik Start
In this lab, you will create Cloud Functions that respond to HTTP calls and get triggered by Pub/Sub messages and Cloud Audit Logs.
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Lab Featured Google Cloud SDK: Qwik Start - Redhat/Centos
In this hands-on lab you will learn how to perform basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the gcloud command-line tool. For a short preview, watch Cloud SDK - Essential Command-Line Tools for Google Cloud Platform.