Architecting with Google Compute Engine

Course 1471

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

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.

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Architecting with Google Compute Engine Course Information

In this course, you will:

  • 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 the 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 CloudApply techniques and best practices for securing Google Cloud applications.
  • Apply techniques and best practices for securing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) resources.
  • Manage protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS).
  • Manage content-related vulnerabilities.
  • Implement Google Cloud monitoring, logging, auditing, and scanning solutions.

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

Exam Information

None.

Architecting with Google Compute Engine 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 IAM resource hierarchy.
  • Explain the different types of IAM roles.
  • Recall the different types of IAM members.
  • Implement access control for resources using IAM.

Module 5) Storage and Database Services

  • 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.

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 Google Cloud HA VPN
  • 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 Automation

  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform.
  • Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace

Module 11) Managed Services

  • Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud

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  • 11 modules
  • 133 videos
  • 17 labs
  • 8 classroom activities

While this course itself does not provide certification, it prepares participants for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.

By implementing effective architecture and management practices, you can help your organization improve system performance, enhance security, optimize costs, and ensure the reliability and scalability of applications running on Google Compute Engine.

  • Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers
  • Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure.
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