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 App Engine: Qwik Start - Java
This hands-on lab shows you how to create a small App Engine application that displays a short message. Watch the short video Build Apps at Scale with Google App Engine.
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Lab Featured 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.
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Lab Featured App Engine: Qwik Start - Go
This hands-on lab shows you how to create a small App Engine application that displays a short message. Watch the short video Build Apps at Scale with Google App Engine.
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Lab Featured 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.
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Lab Featured Cloud SQL for MySQL: Qwik Start
In this lab, you 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.
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Lab Featured 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.
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Lab Featured Data Loss Prevention: Qwik Start - JSON
The Data Loss Prevention API provides programmatic access to a powerful detection engine for privacy-sensitive data. In this lab, you learn how to use this API to inspect a string of data for sensitive information.
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Lab Featured Cloud Storage: Qwik Start - Cloud Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to perform basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the Google Cloud Console. Watch the short video Google Cloud Storage: Massive Scalability Plus More.
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Lab Featured Video Intelligence: Qwik Start
In this lab, you use the Google Cloud Video Intelligence API to extract metadata from a sample video file. Watch the short video Google Cloud Video Intelligence - Search every moment of every video in your catalog.
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Lab Featured Dataflow: Qwik Start - Python
In this lab, you set up your Python development environment for Dataflow (using the Apache Beam SDK for Python) and run an example Dataflow pipeline.