Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Master Google Cloud skills through hands-on labs and friendly competition! Cloud Hero challenges you to conquer a series of Cloud Skills Boost labs, putting your newfound knowledge to practice. Earn points for completing labs accurately, and rack up bonus points for speed. The leaderboard lets you see how you stack up against your peers – can you rise to the top? Remember to click "End" after finishing each lab to claim your well-deserved points.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.
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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.
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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.
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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
Managing Kubernetes on GCP
Earned Jun 24, 2025 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Jun 17, 2025 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Jun 13, 2025 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned May 7, 2024 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned May 2, 2024 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 19, 2024 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Apr 16, 2024 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 8, 2024 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST