3Building and testing applications

• 3.1Setting up the development environment

  Understand emulating services with the Google Cloud CLI for local development and testing, using Cloud Code, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, and Gemini Cloud Assist, IDE integrations, and configuring environments that boost developer productivity.

• 3.2Building and testing (CI)

  Understand building containers from source with Cloud Build, storing them in Artifact Registry, ensuring provenance with Binary Authorization, automating unit/integration tests, and continuous validation in CI pipelines.