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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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Updated 05/2026
Learn Google Cloud essentials including computing, storage, networking, and resource management through videos and hands-on labs in this foundational course.
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35 videos
63 Exercises
3,350 XP
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Course Description

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.

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1

Course Introduction

This section welcomes learners to the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course, and provides an overview of the course structure and goals.
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2

Introducing Google Cloud

This section identifies some of the key benefits of using Google Cloud. It's here that we introduce the components of the Google network infrastructure, and explore the differences between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).
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3

Resources and Access in the Cloud

This section explores how resources get organized with projects, and how access to those resources gets shared with the right part of a workforce through a tool called Identity and Access Management (IAM). It's also in this section that we identify different ways to interact with Google Cloud.
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Containers in the Cloud

This section of the course explores containers and how they can be managed with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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7

Applications in the Cloud

The focus of this section of the course is developing applications in the cloud. It's here that we'll explore Cloud Run and Cloud Run functions.
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8

Prompt Engineering

This section looks at generative AI tools, how they work. We'll explore how to combine Google Cloud knowledge with prompt engineering to improve Gemini responses.
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9

Course Summary

In this final section, we review what was presented in this course and discuss the next steps to continue your cloud learning journey.
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