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Basic Navigation and Deployment Patterns for Google Cloud

Google Cloud can feel confusing when you don’t know how it is organized. This course will teach you how to navigate projects, regions, and zones so you can confidently launch and verify your first Google Cloud resources.

Beginner
36m

Created by Joseph Lowery

Last Updated Jun 24, 2026

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Basic Navigation and Deployment Patterns for Google Cloud

Google Cloud can feel confusing when you don’t know how it is organized. This course will teach you how to navigate projects, regions, and zones so you can confidently launch and verify your first Google Cloud resources.

Beginner
36m

Created by Joseph Lowery

Last Updated Jun 24, 2026

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What you'll learn

Before you can work confidently with Google Cloud services, you need to understand where your resources live and how your active project and location choices affect what you create. In this course, you’ll learn how to navigate the Google Cloud Console, connect Console work with Cloud Shell, choose the right project, region, and zone, and avoid common beginner mistakes when deploying simple resources. When you’re finished, you’ll have the practical foundation needed to start learning Google Cloud compute, networking, storage, identity, and monitoring services with confidence.

Basic Navigation and Deployment Patterns for Google Cloud
Beginner
36m
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Joseph Lowery - Pluralsight course - Basic Navigation and Deployment Patterns for Google Cloud
Joseph Lowery
20 courses 4.8 author rating 16 ratings

Joseph Lowery is a Principal Author at Pluralsight, focused on Google Cloud and multicloud. He has created courses for Google Cloud Generative AI Leader and Google Cloud Associate Engineer as well as other courses on multicloud and hands-on-labs on a wide range of cloud computing services. Joe's books about the web and web-building tools were international bestsellers, having sold over 400,000 copies worldwide in eleven different languages.

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