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.
Objectives
In this course, participants will learn the following skills:
- 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.
Audience
This class is aimed at the following audience:
- 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.
Pre-requisites
To fully benefit from this course, participants must comply with the following criteria:
- 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.
Duration
3 days
Investment
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Course outline
The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.
- 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
- List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
- Explore VPC Networking
- Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
- Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines.
- Describe the disk options for virtual machines.
- Explain VM pricing and discounts.
- Use Compute Engine to create and customize VM instances.
- Describe the IAM resource hierarchy.
- Explain the different types of IAM roles.
- Recall the different types of IAM members.
- Implement access control for resources using IAM.
- Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore and Cloud Bigtable.
- Choose a data storage service based on your requirements.
- Implement data storage services.
- Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy.
- Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers.
- Use labels to organize resources.
- Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud.
- Examine billing data with BigQuery.
- Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging.
- Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring.
- Use Cloud Debugger to identify and fix errors
- 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 Google Cloud HA VPN
- Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering
- 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.
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform.
- Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud.