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.
72 results
-
Lab Featured AlloyDB - Database Fundamentals
In this lab you perform several key tasks when using an AlloyDB for PostgreSQL database.
-
Lab Featured Cloud SQL for MySQL: Qwik Start
Create a Google Cloud SQL MySQL instance and perform SQL operations using Google Cloud Platform Console and mysql client. Watch this short video, Manage PostgreSQL and MySQL Databases Easily with Cloud SQL.
-
Lab Featured 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.
-
Lab Featured Datastream: PostgreSQL Replication to BigQuery
In this lab you will replicate data from a PostgreSQL database to BigQuery.
-
Lab Featured Creating Spanner Instances and Databases (Console)
In this lab, you create Spanner instances and databases using the Google Cloud Console.
-
Lab Featured Creating Spanner Instances and Databases (CLI and Terraform)
In this lab, you automate the creation of Spanner instances and databases using the Google Cloud SDK, the Command Line Interface (CLI), and Terraform.
-
Lab Featured Administering an AlloyDB Database
In this lab you perform administrative tasks that are essential to the optimal use of an AlloyDB for PostgreSQL database.
-
Lab Featured Creating Derived Tables Using LookML
In this lab, you create SQL derived and native derived tables in LookML to define new tables that do not already exist in the underlying database.
-
Lab Featured Performance and Cost Optimization with BigQuery
Learn how to improve your database from a performance and cost perspective
-
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…