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Pub/Sub Messaging Foundations

Create Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions, publish and pull messages, manage acks, and understand delivery guarantees.

45 minutes
cloud/gcp
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Lab Overview

Master Google Cloud Pub/Sub fundamentals. Create topics and subscriptions (push and pull), publish messages programmatically, pull and acknowledge messages using gcloud CLI, understand at-least-once delivery, and manage subscription configuration including dead letter topics and retention.

What You'll Learn

Create Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions

Publish messages to a topic

Pull and acknowledge messages from a subscription

Understand at-least-once delivery semantics

Configure subscription retention and ack deadlines

Prerequisites

Basic command line familiarity

Technologies Covered

gcppubsubmessagingassociate-cloud-engineer

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This lab is part of the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer course

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