Welcome to the Building and Testing Applications Course with Google Cloud Platform. My name is Chris Blackden, and I am a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect and a DevOps Engineer. This course will walk you through building, testing, and deploying your application on Google Cloud Platform, or GCP.

To get the most from this course, you should be familiar with at least one programming language. The examples I use will be in Python, but you'll be able to build apps in other languages, as well. You should also have a basic understanding of Docker and Kubernetes. You don't have to be an expert in either, but knowing how to build a container and what Kubernetes does will really help you understand the demos. You should also have a Google Cloud Platform account which links to your Google account and gives you $300 in credit to try it out.

We'll start by setting up a local development environment so we can write and test code without pushing it to the cloud. Then we'll move into how to create a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline using Google Cloud's services that will build, test, and deploy an application to GCP. By the end of this course, you'll be familiar with the core services that GCP offers to developers. You'll also be able to build a CI/CD pipeline that takes code you've committed, builds, tests, and deploys your application from start to finish.

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Now if you're ready, let's get started.