Architecting with Google Compute Engine

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:

This class is intended for the following participants:

  • 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

Prerequisites:

To get the most out of this course, participants should have:

  • Completed Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or have equivalent experience
  • Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
  • Systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment

Course objectives:

This course teaches participants the following skills:

  • 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

Course outline

The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs:

Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
Module 2: Virtual Networks
Module 3: Virtual Machines
Module 4: CloudIAM
Module 5: Storage and Database Services
Module 6: Resource Management
Module 7: Resource Monitoring
Module 8: Interconnecting Networks
Module 9: Load Balancing and Autoscaling
Module 10: Infrastructure Modernization
Module 11: Managed Services

Certification:

This course is the second step towards the Cloud Engineer Associate certification.