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.
11 results
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Lab Featured Improving Network Performance I
In this lab, you'll work on practical elements of performance testing, with an eye to improving network bandwidth in your environment by using different core sizes and internal vs. external networks.
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Lab Featured Migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL Using PostgreSQL Tools
In this lab, you migrate a stand-alone PostgreSQL database (running on a virtual machine) to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL using native PostgreSQL tools.
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Lab Featured Introduction to Docker
In this lab you will familiarize yourself with the basic Docker container environment commands. You will create, run, and debug containers, and learn to pull and push images to and from Google Artifact Registry.
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Lab Featured Running a Containerized App on Google Kubernetes Engine
Containers are becoming a popular way to run and scale applications across multiple cloud providers or on both cloud and on premise hardware. This lab provides a quick introduction to running a website on Google Container Engine using Docker.
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Lab Featured 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.
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Lab Featured Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
This lab shows you how to monitor a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring.
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Lab Featured Autoscaling an Instance Group with Custom Cloud Monitoring Metrics
This lab describes how to deploy an autoscaling Compute Engine instance group that is automatically scaled using a custom Cloud monitoring metric
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Lab Featured Hello Node Kubernetes
In this hands-on lab, you turn your code into a replicated application running on Kubernetes. You create a Node.js app, create a Docker container from it, deploy it to Kubernetes Engine, and scale it up. Watch a short preview Hello Node Kubernetes, GCP Essentials.
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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 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.