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 Migrate a MySQL Database to Google Cloud SQL: Challenge Lab
Your challenge is to migrate the database to Google Cloud SQL and then reconfigure the application so that it no longer relies on the local MySQL database.
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Lab Featured Deploying Spanner Applications with Cloud Functions and Cloud Run
In this lab, you write applications that utilize Spanner databases, and deploy them to both Cloud Functions and Cloud Run. You also install, configure, and enable the Spanner emulator for use in development environments.
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Lab Featured Migrate to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using Database Migration Service
In this lab, you migrate a stand-alone PostgreSQL database (running on a virtual machine) to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using a continuous Database Migration Service job and VPC peering for connectivity.
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Lab Featured Importing Data to a Firestore Database
In this lab you will upload existing data (a CSV file) to a Firestore serverless database in the cloud.
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Lab Featured Protect and Recover Microsoft SQL Server with Actifio
In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to backup an existing Microsoft SQL Database with Actifio
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Lab Featured Modernizing Applications with Apigee X
In this lab, you deploy a backend service on Cloud Run. The backend service implements a REST API for a bank, storing customers, accounts, ATMs, and transactions in a Firestore database. You create a shared flow that retrieves and caches content from an external service. You then call that shared flow from your AP…
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Lab Featured Enhance Text Generation with RAG, LangChain, and Vertex AI
In this lab, you use a LangChain "Chain" to orchestrate steps required to query a vector database and submit the results of the query to Gemini to obtain results based on a knowledge base. To do so, you embed a query submitted in a session in order to perform a nearest neighbor search on the vector store. Once res…
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Lab Featured Running Queries and Transactions
In this lab, you learn how to run parameterized queries, create and use indexes, and execute transactions against a Spanner database.
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Lab Featured Automate Validation using the Data Validation Tool (DVT)
Data validation is a critical step in data warehouse, database, or data lake migration.
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Lab Featured Migrating to Cloud SQL from Amazon RDS for MySQL Using Database Migration Service
In this lab, you migrate MySQL data from an Amazon RDS instance for MySQL to Cloud SQL for MySQL using a one-time Database Migration Service job and an IP allowlist for connectivity. After you create and run the migration job, you confirm that the data have been successfully migrated to your Cloud SQL for MySQL in…