Architecting with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure (GO5973)

Develop essential skills for managing and administering solutions.

This three-day instructor-led class introduces you to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, you will explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including securely interconnecting networks, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.


Target Audience

Experienced developers who are responsible for managing big data transformations including:

  • Cloud Solutions Architects, Systems Operations professionals, DevOps Engineers, IT managers.
  • Individuals using Google Cloud Platform to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with the Google Cloud Platform


Objectives

In this course you will learn:

  • Consider the entire range of Google Cloud Platform technologies in their plans
  • Learn methods to develop, implement, and deploy solutions
  • Distinguish between features of similar or related products and technologies
  • Recognize a wide variety of solution domains, use cases, and applications
  • Develop essential skills for managing and administering solutions
  • Develop knowledge of solution patterns


Prerequisites

  • Have completed Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals or have equivalent experience
  • 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
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Content

Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud Platform

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Infrastructure
  • Using GCP
  • Lab: Console and Cloud Shell
  • Demo: Projects
  • Lab: Infrastructure Preview


Module 2: Virtual Networks

  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, Firewall rules
  • Subnetworks for resource management instead of physical network topology
  • Lab: Virtual Networking
  • Lab: Bastion Host


Module 3: Virtual Machines

  • Compute Engine
  • Lab: Creating Virtual Machines
  • Compute options (vCPU and Memory)
  • Images
  • Common Compute Engine actions
  • Lab: Working with Virtual Machines


Module 4: Cloud IAM

  • Organizations, Roles, Members, Service accounts, Cloud IAM best practices
  • Lab: Cloud IAM


Module 5: Data Storage Services

  • Cloud Storage
  • Lab: Cloud Storage
  • Cloud SQL
  • Lab: Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Spanner, Cloud Datastore
  • Lab: Cloud Datastore
  • Cloud Bigtable


Module 6: Resource Management

  • Cloud Resource Manager, Quotas, Labels, Names, Billing
  • Demo: Billing Administration
  • Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery


Module 7: Resource Monitoring

  • Stackdriver, Monitoring
  • Lab: Resource Monitoring (Stackdriver)
  • Logging, Error Reporting, Tracing, Debugging
  • Lab: Error Reporting and Debugging (Stackdriver)


Module 8: Interconnecting Networks

  • Cloud Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • Lab: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
  • Cloud Router, Cloud Interconnect, External Peering, Cloud DNS


Module 9: Load Balancing

  • Managed Instance Groups, HTTPS load balancing, Cross-region and content-based load balancing, SSL proxy/TCP proxy load balancing, Network load balancing
  • Lab: VM Automation and Load Balancing


Module 10: Autoscaling

  • Autoscaling, Policies, Configuration
  • Lab: Autoscaling


Module 11: Infrastructure Automation with Google Cloud Platform APIs

  • Infrastructure automation, Images, Metadata, Scripts, Google Cloud API
  • Lab: Google Cloud Platform API Infrastructure Automation


Module 12: Infrastructure Automation with Deployment Manager

  • Deployment Manager, Configuration, Cloud Launcher
  • Lab: Deployment Manager


Module 13: Managed Services

  • Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Datalab


Module 14: Application Infrastructure Services

  • Cloud Pub/Sub, API Management, Cloud Functions, Cloud Source Repositories, Specialty APIs


Module 15: Application Development Services

  • App Engine


Module 16: Containers

  • Containers, Kubernetes Engine, Container Registry
  • Lab: Kubernetes Load Balancing
  • Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, or Containers on Compute Engine?