A Cloud Developer designs, builds, analyzes, and maintains cloud-native applications. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Developer role. Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Developer certification to take the next steps on your professional journey.
Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate
Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate
Developer Best Practices on Google Cloud
Instructors: Google Cloud Training
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2 months at 5 hours a week
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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
(527 reviews)
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
2 months at 5 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.
Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud developer engineering role.
Choose among and use application deployment environments on Google Cloud: App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine.
Techniques for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud
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Skills you'll gain
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Taught in English
29 practice exercises
Professional Certificate - 8 course series
What you'll learn
Learn about the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment, and learn how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.
Learn about Google Cloud projects, and identify common misconceptions about them. Learn about the API library, and examine its chief features.
Learn how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services
Learn about primitive roles, and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users.
Skills you'll gain
Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Cloud API, Cloud Platforms, Application Programming Interface (API), User Accounts, Identity and Access Management, and Cloud Services
What you'll learn
Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.
Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud
Explain how to create a basic infrastructure in Google Cloud
Select and use Google Cloud storage options
Skills you'll gain
Google Cloud Platform, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Storage, Serverless Computing, Cloud Services, Application Deployment, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Prompt Engineering, Virtual Machines, Generative AI Agents, Scalability, Containerization, Network Infrastructure, Application Development, and Cloud Computing
What you'll learn
Discuss best practices for application development in the cloud.
Understand how to choose the appropriate data storage option for application use cases.
Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.
Describe use cases for the different Google Cloud compute options used for running applications.
Skills you'll gain
Google Cloud Platform, Data Storage, Authentications, Cloud Applications, Containerization, CI/CD, Application Performance Management, Cloud Storage, Cloud API, Authorization (Computing), Identity and Access Management, Computer Programming Tools, Application Development, Application Deployment, Performance Tuning, and Generative AI
What you'll learn
Describe the benefits and challenges of microservices-based architectures.
Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.
Identify the strengths of orchestration and choreography.
Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.
Skills you'll gain
Microservices, Event-Driven Programming, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cloud Development, Cloud Applications, Scalability, Serverless Computing, Software Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, and Systems Architecture
What you'll learn
Recognize the benefits of and use cases for Cloud Run functions in modern application development.
Understand how to build, test and deploy Cloud Run functions.
Secure and connect Cloud Run functions to resources, and cloud databases.
Use best practices with functions.
Skills you'll gain
Serverless Computing, Cloud Development, Identity and Access Management, Scalability, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Performance Tuning, Event-Driven Programming, Operational Databases, Application Deployment, Cloud Applications, and Cloud API
What you'll learn
Define containers, container images, and package applications into container images.
Identify best practices used to create, test, and secure containers.
Understand the basics of Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine.
Skills you'll gain
Containerization, Docker (Software), CI/CD, Application Deployment, Kubernetes, Cloud Applications, Infrastructure Security, Google Cloud Platform, Serverless Computing, and Cloud Development
What you'll learn
Understand the fundamentals of Cloud Run that include the resource model, container lifecycle, and autoscaling.
Develop and test applications locally before deploying to Cloud Run.
Use service identity and IAM with Cloud Run.
Integrate Cloud Run applications with Google Cloud services.
Skills you'll gain
Cloud Applications, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Services, Serverless Computing, Application Development, Cloud-Based Integration, Containerization, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Security, Scalability, and Application Deployment
What you'll learn
Discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models.
Access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code.
Test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.
Skills you'll gain
Application Development, Google Gemini, Application Programming Interface (API), Cloud API, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, Multimodal Prompts, and LLM Application
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Frequently asked questions
To get the most benefit from this course, participants should have the following prerequisites: • Completed Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals or have equivalent experience • Working knowledge of Node.js • Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
We strongly recommend you take these courses in order, beginning with Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals. This is especially important when completing the Google Qwiklabs projects, as these hands-on labs build upon the work you complete in preceding courses.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
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