Pub/Sub vs Cloud Tasks in GCP - Interactive Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a Pub/Sub topic named 'my-topic'.

GCP

gcloud pubsub topics create [1]

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Amy-queue

Bmy-subscription

Cmy-topic

Dmy-task

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Common Mistakes

Using a subscription name instead of a topic name.

Confusing Cloud Tasks queue names with Pub/Sub topics.

The command gcloud pubsub topics create my-topic creates a Pub/Sub topic named 'my-topic'.

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medium

Complete the code to create a Cloud Tasks queue named 'my-queue'.

GCP

gcloud tasks queues create [1]

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Amy-topic

Bmy-queue

Cmy-subscription

Dmy-topic-queue

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Common Mistakes

Using a Pub/Sub topic name instead of a queue name.

Using a subscription name in place of a queue.

The command gcloud tasks queues create my-queue creates a Cloud Tasks queue named 'my-queue'.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to publish a message to a Pub/Sub topic.

GCP

gcloud pubsub topics publish my-topic --message=[1]

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A'Hello World'

BHello World

CHello_World

D"Hello World"

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Common Mistakes

Not using quotes causes the message to be split or misinterpreted.

Using single quotes may not work in some shells.

The message must be enclosed in double quotes to be correctly parsed by the command line.

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hard

Fill both blanks to define a Cloud Tasks task with an HTTP request and schedule time.

GCP

gcloud tasks create-http-task --queue=[1] --url=[2] --schedule-time=2024-06-01T12:00:00Z

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Amy-queue

Bmy-topic

Chttps://example.com/taskhandler

Dhttps://example.com/publish

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Common Mistakes

Using a Pub/Sub topic name instead of a queue name.

Using the wrong URL for the task handler.

The task is created in the queue 'my-queue' and sends an HTTP request to the URL 'https://example.com/taskhandler'.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a Pub/Sub subscription with a push endpoint and ack deadline.

GCP

gcloud pubsub subscriptions create [1] --topic=[2] --push-endpoint=[3] --ack-deadline=20

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Amy-subscription

Bmy-topic

Chttps://example.com/pushhandler

Dmy-queue

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Confusing queue names with subscription names.

Using the wrong URL for the push endpoint.

This command creates a subscription named 'my-subscription' to the topic 'my-topic' with a push endpoint URL and an acknowledgment deadline of 20 seconds.