This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine. This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You'll also learn how to deploy practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
Skills Gained
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
- Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
- Implement VPC networks and firewall rules
- Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
- Administer Identity and Access Management for resources
- Implement data storage services in Google Cloud
- Manage and examine billing of Google Cloud resources
- Monitor resources using Google Cloud services
- Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
- Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services
- Leverage managed services in Google Cloud
Who Can Benefit
- Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers
- Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine
Prerequisites
- Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or have equivalent experience
- Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
- Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
- List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
- Create Cloud Storage buckets
- Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
Module 2: Virtual Networks
- List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
- Explore VPC Networking
- Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
Module 3: Virtual Machines
- Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines
- Describe the disk options for virtual machines
- Explain VM pricing and discounts
- Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Describe the Cloud IAM resource hierarchy.
- Explain the different types of IAM roles.
- Recall the different types of IAM members.
- Implement access control for resources using Cloud IAM.
Module 5: Storage and Database Services
- Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Bigtable.
- Choose a data storage service based on your requirements.
- Implement data storage services.
Module 6: Resource Management
- Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy
- Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers
- Organize resources using labels
- Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud
- Examine billing data with BigQuery
Module 7: Resource Monitoring
- Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging
- Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring
- Identify and fix errors using Cloud Debugger
Module 8: Interconnecting Networks
- Recall the Google Cloud interconnect and peering services available to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud.
- Determine which Google Cloud interconnect or peering service to use in specific circumstances.
- Create and configure VPN gateways.
- Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering.
Module 9: Load Balancing and Autoscaling
- Recall the various load balancing services.
- Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances.
- Describe autoscaling behavior.
- Configure load balancers and autoscaling
Module 10: Infrastructure Modernization
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Deployment Manager or Terraform.
- Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Module 11: Managed Services
- Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud.