Google Cloud Compute Courses and Certifications

GCP Core Compute and Storage Services

Deploy and manage GCP Compute Engine instances and Cloud Storage, including firewall configuration, object versioning, static websites, and Python automation.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Security Best Practices in Google Cloud: Compute

Secure Google Cloud compute from boot to runtime with keyless least-privilege identities, centralized SSH without public IPs, boot-integrity verification, and memory-level encryption.

• Coursera
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine

5179 ratings at Coursera

Deploy solutions on Google Kubernetes Engine: build, schedule, load balance and monitor workloads, set up service discovery, role-based access control, security and persistent storage.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine

3716 ratings at Coursera

Containerize applications and run them on Google Kubernetes Engine: explore Google Cloud basics, container images with Cloud Build, Kubernetes architecture, Pods, and kubectl from Cloud Shell.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Container Workload Management and Production Operations

3741 ratings at Coursera

Learn to manage production containerized workloads on GKE, configure deployments with kubectl and YAML, apply autoscaling and monitoring, and secure multi-tenant clusters.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 13 courses

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads

1270 ratings at Coursera

Manage Kubernetes Deployments, Jobs, and CronJobs on Google Kubernetes Engine, configure services and load balancers, and set up persistent storage with StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production

954 ratings at Coursera

Secure GKE clusters with Kubernetes RBAC, IAM, Workload Identity and Pod Security Standards, monitor and log with Google Cloud Observability, connect Cloud SQL, and build CI/CD pipelines.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals

8 ratings

Introductory overview of cloud computing through Google Cloud’s interfaces and compute options for building applications.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Google Cloud (GCP) MasterClass : GCP Live Projects

2386 ratings at Udemy

Google Cloud (GCP) Platform: GCP Essentials, Cloud Computing, GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect

• Udemy
• 1 day 7 hours 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Creating a Virtual Machine

30 ratings at Coursera

Create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine in the Cloud console and work through zones, regions, and machine types in a hands-on lab.

• Coursera
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Migrating a Monolithic Website to Microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine

22 ratings at Coursera

Deploy a monolithic application to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster in the Google Cloud console, then break it apart into separate microservices.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Kubernetes Engine: Qwik Start

18 ratings at Coursera

Deploy a containerized application with Google Kubernetes Engine in a hands-on lab, creating and working with a managed cluster from the Google Cloud console.

• Coursera
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI Infrastructure: Cloud TPUs

13 ratings at Coursera

Compare Cloud TPU accelerators, weigh their advantages and drawbacks against GPUs, and apply strategies for maximizing AI model performance, efficiency, and GPU/TPU interoperability.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI Infrastructure: Cloud GPUs

Compare CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs for AI workloads, then select and optimize Google Cloud GPUs to accelerate model training and inference.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Compute Engine: Qwik Start - Windows

Create a Windows Server virtual machine in Google Compute Engine from the Google Cloud console and connect to it using RDP.

• Coursera
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course