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Architecting with Google Compute Engine

  • CMDBID 1079
  • Course Code GCPAGCP
  • Duration 3 Days
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Overview

This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine. This session 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 secure interconnecting networks, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

Audience:

  • Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers.
  • Individuals using Google Cloud Platform to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine.

Audience

  • Configure VPC networks and virtual machines
  • Administer Identity and Access Management for resources
  • Implement data storage services in GCP
  • Manage and examine billing of GCP resources
  • Monitor resources using Stackdriver services
  • Connect your infrastructure to GCP
  • Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
  • Automate the deployment of GCP infrastructure services
  • Leverage managed services in GCP

Prerequisites

  • Have completed Google Cloud Platform 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.

Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud

  • List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud.
  • Use the Cloud Console and Cloud Shell.
  • Create Cloud Storage buckets.
  • Use the Google Cloud Marketplace to deploy solutions.

Module 2: Virtual Networks

  • List the VPC objects in Google Cloud.
  • Differentiate between the different types of VPC networks.
  • Implement VPC networks and firewall rules.
  • 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.
  • Use Compute Engine to create and customize VM instances.

Module 4: CloudIAM

  • 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.
  • Use labels to organize resources.
  • 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.
  • Use Cloud Debugger to identify and fix errors.

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.

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