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Ryan Eldridge

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7871 points
Gemini for Cloud Architects Earned сент. 26, 2025 EDT
Migrate your VPC Firewall Policies to Cloud NGFW Earned сент. 22, 2025 EDT
Secure GKE with Cloud Next Generation Firewall Earned сент. 8, 2025 EDT
Secure VPC Networks with Cloud Next Generation Firewall Earned сент. 8, 2025 EDT
Evaluate Your Cloud Next Generation Firewall Needs Earned сент. 8, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Cloud Next Generation Firewall Earned сент. 8, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Google Distributed Cloud Sandbox Earned сент. 2, 2025 EDT
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Gemini Enterprise Earned марта 5, 2025 EST
Deploying SAP on Google Cloud Earned марта 21, 2024 EDT
Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center Earned сент. 26, 2023 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned сент. 15, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI Earned июня 23, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned июня 15, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned июня 15, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned июня 6, 2023 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Earned янв. 25, 2023 EST
[Accelerate 2022]: TechCon Lab Bash 2022 Earned янв. 14, 2022 EST
VM Migration Earned нояб. 11, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned окт. 25, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned сент. 10, 2021 EDT

In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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Learn how to migrate your network firewalls to Cloud Next Generation Firewall global network firewall policy.

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This training course, the final course in the Configure Next Generation Firewall Series, shows you how to secure your GKE infrastructure using Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) policies. You learn how to use Cloud NGFW policies to protect clusters and individual node pools.

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This training course, the third course in the Configure Next Generation Firewall Series, shows you how to secure your VPC infrastructure using Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). Learn how to implement hierarchical and network policies, scope firewall rules, and configure intrusion detection and prevention to counter threats.

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Identify critical assets and their compliance requirements.

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This training course introduces Cloud NGFW. Topics include how Cloud NGFW provides centralized firewall management, centralized firewall visibility, advanced threat protection, and firewall insights.

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In this course, you'll gain a solid understanding of Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Sandbox—a cost-effective and accessible environment for building, testing, and evaluating GDC solutions. You'll explore the GDC Sandbox's architecture, key features, and service offerings and see how they enable real-world use cases. Most importantly, you'll observe demonstrations on performing essential operational tasks, such as deploying virtual machines and containers. By the end, you'll be equipped to confidently navigate the GDC Sandbox environment.

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Unite Google’s expertise in search and AI with Gemini Enterprise, a powerful tool designed to help employees find specific information from document storage, email, chats, ticketing systems, and other data sources, all from a single search bar. The Gemini Enterprise assistant can also help brainstorm, research, outline documents, and take actions like inviting coworkers to a calendar event to accelerate knowledge work and collaboration of all kinds. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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This course provides a holistic experience of optimally configuring SAP on Google Cloud. Participants will learn to configure SAP on Google Cloud, and what best practices are, leaving the course with actionable experience to configure SAP on Google Cloud and run SAP workloads on Google Cloud.

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Complete the intermediate Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: preventing and managing environment threats, identifying and mitigating application vulnerabilities, and responding to security anomalies.

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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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The Generative AI Explorer - Vertex Quest is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the models in the Vertex AI PaLM API family, including text-bison, chat-bison, and textembedding-gecko. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via Vertex AI custom training and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint.

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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.

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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images

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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.

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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This Quest is most suitable for those working in a technology or finance role who are responsible for managing Google Cloud costs. You’ll learn how to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage billing access permissions. In the hands-on labs, you'll learn how to view your invoice, track your Google Cloud costs with Billing reports, analyze your billing data with BigQuery or Google Sheets, and create custom billing dashboards with Looker Studio. References made to links in the videos can be accessed in this Additional Resources document.

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Welcome to the TechCon Lab Bash 2022 hands-on lab event! Below, you are presented with a series of labs ranging from Level 100 to Level 400. Level 100 labs are video walkthroughs of the lab content. Level 200 labs are traditional Learning Labs which provide you with step-by-step instructions. Level 300 are Challenge Labs which provide you with limited instructions and a hands-on technical scenario to solve. Level 400 are break/fix labs where you must identify the issues in the environment and resolve them.

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Google Cloud’s four step structured Cloud Migration Path Methodology provides a defined and repeatable path for users to follow when migrating and modernizing Virtual Machines. In this quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google’s current solution set for VM assessment, planning, migration, and modernization. You will start by analyzing your lab environment and building assessment reports with CloudPhysics and StratoZone, then build a landing zone within Google Cloud leveraging Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code templates, next you will manually transform a two-tier application into a cloud-native workload running on Kubernetes, and finally, transform a VM workload into Kubernetes with Migrate for Anthos and migrate a VM between cloud environments.

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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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