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 Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Cloud console. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
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Lab Featured Cloud Natural Language API: Qwik Start
The Cloud Natural Language API lets you extract entities and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis on text. Watch these short videos Gain Valuable Insights from Text with Cloud Natural Language and Cloud Natural Language: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.
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Lab Featured Build a Chat Application using the PaLM 2 API on Cloud Run
In this lab, you build and deploy an AI-based chat application on Cloud Run that utilizes the PaLM 2 API's Chat Bison model (text-chat).
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Lab Featured Build an AI Image Generator app using Imagen on Vertex AI
In this lab, you will learn how to use Google's Vertex AI SDK to interact with the pre-trained Image Generation AI model, enabling you to send text prompts to the AI model as an input for image generation and receive the image response generated by the AI model.
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Lab Featured Build a BI Dashboard Using Looker Studio and BigQuery
In this lab, you will learn how to build a BI dashboard with Looker Studio as the front end, powered by BigQuery on the back end.
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Lab Featured 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.
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Lab Featured VPC Network Peering
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network Peering allows private connectivity across two VPC networks regardless of whether or not they belong to the same project or the same organization.