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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    Managing Terraform State

    In this hands-on lab you will import existing infrastructure, write Terraform configuration that matches that infrastructure, and manipulate state storage with Terraform.

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    Running a MongoDB Database in Kubernetes with StatefulSets

    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 MongoDB database on Kubernetes Engine using Docker.

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    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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    Entity and Sentiment Analysis with the Natural Language API

    The Cloud Natural Language API lets you extract entities, and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis on a block of text. In this hands-on lab you’ll learn how to extract entities and sentiment from text using the Cloud Natural Language API.

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    Getting Started with the Vertex AI Gemini API and Python SDK

    In this lab, you will learn how to use the Vertex AI SDK for Python to call the Vertex AI Gemini API.

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    Introduction to SQL for BigQuery and Cloud SQL

    In this lab, you learn fundamental SQL clauses and get hands-on practice running structured queries on BigQuery and Cloud SQL.

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    Deploy a Compute Instance with a Remote Startup Script: Challenge Lab

    Configure a Linux Google Compute Engine instance that installs an Apache web server software using a remote startup script, then confirm that Apache has successfully installed.

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    Interact with Terraform Modules

    In this hands-on lab you will create and use Terraform modules to organize your cloud configuration.

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    Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes (AWS)

    In this lab you will learn how to provision a complete Kubernetes cluster using Google Kubernetes Engine; deploy and manage Docker containers using kubectl; and break an application into microservices using Kubernetes Deployments and Services.

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    Implementing Security in Dataplex

    This lab shows you how to implement security in Dataplex.