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Google Cloud Entry — Your First Steps on GCP (2026)

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A plain-language entry course for Google Cloud, written for people with no prior cloud experience. Walk the GCP landscape, the project and resource hierarchy, identity and access (IAM), core compute, storage and data, networking, and AI on Google Cloud — then get hands-on with the free tier and $300 credit, deploy a real container to Cloud Run with the gcloud CLI, and finish with a substantial cumulative practice exam. No coding background required.

Length
2 h 25 min
Lessons
8
Quizzes
8
Renewal
Does not renew

Lessons

  1. What Google Cloud Is — the 2026 Landscape · 11 min
  2. Projects & the Resource Hierarchy · 11 min
  3. Identity & Access — IAM · 13 min
  4. Core Compute — How GCP Runs Your Code · 13 min
  5. Storage & Data — Where Your Data Lives · 13 min
  6. Networking Basics — VPC, Firewalls & Load Balancing · 12 min
  7. AI on Google Cloud in 2026 — Vertex AI & Gemini · 12 min
  8. Hands-On & Final Exam — Deploy to Cloud Run · 1 h

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