InFocus This Week: Skills Boost Arcade – NetworkSkills

InFocus This Week: Skills Boost Arcade – NetworkSkills

No cloud app stands alone. Behind every successful deployment is a strong foundation of networking, security, and observability. This week, Skills Boost Arcade: NetworkSkills takes center stage—giving you hands-on experience with the tools and techniques that power modern, cloud-native infrastructure on Google Cloud.

What is Skills Boost Arcade NetworkSkills?

Skills Boost Arcade NetworkSkills is a hands-on challenge designed to help you build essential skills across cloud networking, security, monitoring, and serverless development. The labs are focused, practical, and aligned with real-world use cases—ideal whether you're new to Google Cloud or looking to sharpen your expertise.

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Why Do These Skills Matter?

Networking
Learn to create and manage VPCs, configure subnets, and use gcloud to manage network components.

Security
Use IAM and Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) to protect cloud resources and control access at scale.

Observability
Monitor your applications in real time using Cloud Monitoring and Prometheus. Build dashboards and set up alerts to stay proactive.

Serverless Development
Deploy scalable apps on Cloud Run, and even generate PDFs using Go—all without managing infrastructure.

Here’s What’s In Store: 

  • VPC Networking Fundamentals
    Build and configure virtual private clouds to enable secure app communication.
  • Configuring Networks via gcloud
    Use the gcloud CLI to automate and manage your network environment.
  • Deploy Your Website on Cloud Run
    Create a containerized web app and deploy it using a serverless, fully managed platform.
  • User Authentication: Identity-Aware Proxy
    Add authentication to your apps using IAP—no code changes required.
  • Cloud IAM: Qwik Start
    Understand how IAM works and learn to assign roles and permissions effectively.
  • Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
    Gain visibility into your cloud infrastructure with custom dashboards and metrics.
  • Collect Metrics from Exporters using the Managed Service for Prometheus
    Use Prometheus to track metrics and monitor containerized workloads.
  • Creating PDFs with Go and Cloud Run
    Develop a microservice in Go that generates PDFs dynamically, deployed via Cloud Run.

Who Should Take the Challenge?

  • Cloud Engineers looking to enhance their infrastructure skills.
  • Developers interested in deploying and securing modern web apps.
  • DevOps Professionals focused on automation and system observability.
  • Students eager to build in-demand cloud skills.

Why Join Skills Boost Arcade: NetworkSkills?

These are not just labs—they’re stepping stones to real-world experience. Whether you're preparing for certifications, job interviews, or hands-on roles, Skills Boost Arcade NetworkSkills gives you the confidence to build, secure, and monitor applications in a production-ready cloud environment.

So complete the challenge, earn your exclusive Google Cloud badge, collect 2 Arcade Points, and advance your journey to cloud fluency!

See You In The Cloud!

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Good evening mam, When will you reveal the other swgas? Like revealing swgas motivate ous for achieving the milestone. So please reveal the remaining swgas...

Every or alternate Friday evening there will be new swag drops.

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TEAM, what you want to proof about such swags reveal and also increase arcade points on each and every tier.

Bro I Think The Swags Will Be Also Upgraded After Increasing The Points In Every Milestone As The Novice "Standard" Got The Laptop Stand From The Last Season's "Premium" Swags This Time

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Please reveal the bag packs which we will get in each tier 🙂

does completing this count as  completing a game in facilitator program ?

yes! It will be counted as 1 arcade game only,

you will earn 2 arcade pts for this badge

Has anybody got an mail to get GCSB credits this month ?

No i haven't if you want I can give some credits or else it will expire

yes I want

On Internet search for cloud skill boost credit transfer 
You will understand

cause i may need your email or you can create a new google cloud account then transfer the credits

Cannot start labs for GSP1026 "Collect Metrics from Exporters using the Managed Service for Prometheus"

Start lab button is gray, cannot start the lab. Can you check the issue? @Yugali  Screenshot 2025-05-22 14.34.35.png

It expired on the 19th of May because it was a time-limited game. However, you can access this lab through the catalog, which will cost 5 credits.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/focuses/33340?parent=catalog

Thank you sir for giving me this wonderful opportunity 🙏 🙂 

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