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$900USD
Duration 1 day
Course Code GCP-AOPS
Available Formats Classroom

Overview

Course Description

In this course, you will use your knowledge of developing agents using the Agent Development Kit to operationalize agents using Agent Operations (AgentOps) on Google Cloud. After reviewing the challenges of managing production agents and deployment targets, you will build CI/CD pipelines for agents and leverage a governed artifact management ecosystem. You will implement evaluation systems using the GenAI Evaluation Service and ADK and apply observability solutions for debugging with Cloud Logging and Cloud Trace. You will integrate security guardrails against agent-specific threats using Model Armor and Sensitive Data Protection. Finally, you will apply FinOps strategies to understand and manage agent costs.

Skills Gained

  • Optimize efficiency and consistency of agent deployments with CI/CD
  • Ensure agent quality by implementing and operating evaluation systems
  • Leverage observability solutions for debugging and continuous improvement
  • Establish guardrails against agent-specific threats
  • Build and use a governed artifact management ecosystem
  • Apply FinOps strategies to understand and manage agent costs

Who Can Benefit

Application Developers, DevOps Engineers, ML Engineers and anyone deploying agentic applications on Google Cloud

Prerequisites

  • Completion of "Completion of "Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Agent Development Kit and Agent Engine" or equivalent knowledge
  • Python
  • Prompt engineering
  • Agent Development Kit
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Course Details

Course Details

Introduction to AgentOps on Google Cloud

  • Navigate the challenges of managing production agents
  • Define the core principles of AgentOps
  • Architect agent operations on Google Cloud

CI/CD for Agent Deployments

  • Leverage CI/CD tooling and patterns for agentic solutions on Google Cloud
  • Select the deployment target for agents on Google Cloud
  • Build a complete CI/CD pipeline for an agent
  • Lab: CI/CD for Agents on Google Cloud

Observability for Debugging and Improvement

  • Identify challenges addressed by observability
  • Instrument an ADK agent with structured logs
  • Enable OpenTelemetry tracing on Agent Engine and Cloud Run
  • Leverage BigQuery and Looker Studio for visualization
  • Lab: Instrument and Debug Agents with Cloud Logging, and Cloud Trace

Agent Evaluation and Quality Assurance

  • Perform validation on model responses
  • Evaluate agent behavior, tool usage, and trajectory correctness
  • Create and manage evalsets using ADK Web UI
  • Evaluate evalsets with ADK UI, CLI, or code
  • Use the Vertex AI Generative AI Evaluation Service
  • Lab: Evaluating Agents with ADK

Security and Governance

  • Secure model inputs and outputs with Model Armor
  • Protect sensitive data using Sensitive Data Protection with Model Armor
  • Secure the connection between a user and an agent
  • Lab: Enhancing AI Security with Model Armor and Sensitive Data Protection

Applying FinOps to Agent Costs

  • Identify the primary cost drivers of AI agents
  • Reduce token and model costs
  • Architect cost-efficient agent systems
  • Implement a measurable AI FinOps loop on Google Cloud

Schedule

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Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?

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Reviews

my experince was great from the day i regetered to the actuall day of the class.

Very good material, the instructor was clear explaining the topics, and the labs were easy to follow it.

The class covered the concepts needed for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.

Instructor knew her stuff. Long time in the industry. Course was easy to follow and very informative.

the class/lecture was amazing and very easy to understand and was in detail.