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Architecting with Google Compute Engine
Course Code: GC-AGCE
This three-day course will familiarise 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 hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
This course is intended for the following participants:
- Cloud Solutions Architects
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Systems Operations professionals
- DevOps Engineers
- IT managers
- Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with Google Cloud
- 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.
This course teaches participants the following skills:
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell.
- Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Implement VPC networks and firewall rules.
- Create and customise VM instances using Compute Engine.
- Administer Identity and Access Management for resources.
- Implement data storage services in Google Cloud.
- Manage and examine 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 Cloud.
This course prepares you for the Google Cloud Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer, and the Google Cloud Certified: Professional Cloud Architect exams.
Modules
Topics
- 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
Activities
- Lab: Console and Cloud Shell.
- Lab: Infrastructure Preview
- Quiz.
Topics
- List the VPC objects in Google Cloud.
- Explore VPC Networking.
- Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT.
Activities
- Lab: VPC Networking.
- Lab: Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT.
- Quiz.
- Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines.
- Describe the disk options for virtual machines.
- Explain VM pricing and discounts.
- Create and customise VM instances using Compute Engine.
Activities
- Lab: Creating Virtual Machines.
- Lab: Working with Virtual Machines.
- Quiz.
Topics
- 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.
Activities
- Lab: Cloud IAM.
- Quiz.
Topics
- 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.
Activities
- Lab: Cloud Storage.
- Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL.
- Quiz.
Topics
- Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy.
- Recognise how quotas protect Google Cloud customers.
- Organise resources using labels.
- Explain the behaviour of budget alerts in Google Cloud.
- Examine billing data with BigQuery.
Activities
- Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery.
- Quiz.
Topics
- 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.
Activities
- Lab: Resource Monitoring.
- Lab: Error Reporting and Debugging.
- Quiz.
Topics
- 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)
Topics
- Recall the various load balancing services.
- Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances.
- Describe autoscaling behaviour.
- Configure load balancers and autoscaling.
Activities
- Lab: ILT Configure an HTTP Load Balancer with Autoscaling.
- Lab: Configuring an Internal Load Balancer.
- Quiz
Topics
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Deployment Manager or Terraform.
- Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Activities
- Lab: Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform.
- Quiz.
Topics
- Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud.
Activities
- Quiz.