Course

Architecting with Google Compute Engine («GCPIA»)

This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine.
Duration 3 days
Price 2'550.–
Course documents Official Google Cloud courseware

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • Interacting with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
  • Deploying solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace 
  • Implementing VPC networks and firewall rules
  • Creating and customizing VM instances using Compute Engine
  • Administering Identity and Access Management for resources
  • Implementing data storage services in Google Cloud
  • Managing and examining billing of Google Cloud resources
  • Monitoring resources using Google Cloud services
  • Connecting your infrastructure to Google Cloud
  • Configuring load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
  • Automating the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services
  • Leveraging managed services in Google Cloud
Content

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 will 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.

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
  • Lab: Console and Cloud Shell
  • Lab: Infrastructure Preview
  • Module quiz

2 Virtual Networks

  • List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
  • Explore VPC Networking
  • Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
  • Lab: VPC Networking
  • Lab: Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: Creating Virtual Machines
  • Lab: Working with Virtual Machines
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: Cloud IAM
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: Cloud Storage
  • Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: Resource Monitoring
  • Lab: Error Reporting and Debugging
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
  • Module quiz

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
  • Lab: ILT Configure an HTTP Load Balancer with Autoscaling
  • Lab: Configuring an Internal Load Balancer
  • Module quiz

10 Infrastructure Automation

  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform
  • Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace
  • Lab: Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform
  • Module quiz

11 Managed Services

  • Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud
  • Module quiz
Target 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 
Requirements

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

  • 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
We also recommend attending the following course or equivalent experience:

    Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure («GCPFCI»)

    1 day
    • Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich
    CHF
    850.–
Certification

This course is part of the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer certification path.

Additional information

Products

  • Compute Engine
  • VPC Networking
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Spanner
  • Firestore
  • Cloud Bigtable
  • BigQuery
  • Resource Manager
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud Logging
  • Cloud Interconnect
  • Cloud VPN
  • Cloud Load Balancing

Not covered

  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • App Engine
  • Cloud Functions
  • Cloud Run

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