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 Using Memorystore for Redis Read Replicas to Improve Read Performance
In this lab, you will configure a highly available Memorystore cluster and review the architecture of such a deployment.
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Lab Featured Securing Virtual Machines using BeyondCorp Enterprise (BCE)
In this lab, you will learn how you can use Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) TCP forwarding to enable administrative access to VM instances that do not have external IP addresses or do not permit direct access over the internet.
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Lab Featured App Dev: Deploying the Application into Kubernetes Engine - Python
In this lab, you will deploy the quiz application into Kubernetes Engine, leveraging Google Cloud Platform resources including Container Builder and Container Registry, and Kubernetes resources including Deployments, Pods, and Services.
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Lab Featured Google Kubernetes Engine Security: Binary Authorization
This lab deploys a Kubernetes Engine Cluster with the Binary Authorization feature enabled; you'll learn how to whitelist approved container registries and the process of creating and running a signed container.
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Lab Featured Working with Onscreen Data in a Flutter Application
In this lab you will develop a Flutter app using a ListView widget. Learn how to contruct a Flutter application that is capable of efficiently showing a list of data. Customise the application AppBar to provide additional functionality.
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Lab Featured Prompt Design using PaLM
This lab focuses on the essentials and best practices of prompt design to help you learn how to design good quality prompts, how to interact with PaLM to get the responses you’re looking for, and how to be aware of hallucinations in responses.
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Lab Featured Streaming Data to Bigtable
In this lab, you launch a Dataflow pipeline to load streaming data from Pub/Sub into Bigtable.
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Lab Featured Cloud Endpoints: Qwik Start
In this lab you'll deploy a sample API with Google Cloud Endpoints.
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Lab Featured Understanding and Combining GKE Autoscaling Strategies
In this lab you will explore the benefits of different Google Kubernetes Engine autoscaling strategies, like Horizontal Pod Autoscaling and Vertical Pod Autoscaling for pod-level scaling, and Cluster Autoscaler and Node Auto Provisioning for node-level scaling.
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Lab Featured Connect to Cloud SQL from an Application in Google Kubernetes Engine
This lab shows how easy it is to connect an application in Google Kubernetes Engine to a Cloud SQL instance using the Cloud SQL Proxy container as a sidecar container. You will deploy a GKE cluster and a Cloud SQL Postgres instance and use the Cloud SQL Proxy container to allow communication between them.