Architecting with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description

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.

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

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

Learning Objectives

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

1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform

Role of the Cloud Architect
Learn about Solution Domains as an approach to design

2. Virtual Networks

Cloud Virtual Networks (CVN), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, Firewall rules
Subnetworks for resource management instead of physical network topology

3. Virtual Machines

GCE, tags, VM options, vCPUs, disk options, images, and special features of persistent disks for VMs

4. Cloud IAM

Members, roles, organizations, account administration, and service accounts

5. Resource Management

Billing, Quotas, Labels, Names, and Cloud Resource Manager

6. Data Services

Cloud Storage, Datastore, Bigtable, and Cloud SQL

7. Interconnecting Networks

VPNs, Cloud Router, Cloud Interconnect, Direct Peering, and Cloud DNS

8. Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure automation, custom images, startup and shutdown scripts and metadata, Deployment Manager, and Cloud Launcher

9. Autoscaling

Load Balancing, Instance Groups, and Autoscaler.

10. Resource Monitoring

Stackdriver, Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting, Tracing, and Debugging

11. Containers

Containers, Google Container Engine (GKE), and Container Registry

12. Platform Security

Learn about Google's layered security strategy that uses a multi-faceted approach to provide platform security services and benefits

13. Managed Services

Dataproc, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Datalab

14. Application Development Infrastructure

GAE, Cloud SDK, Dev Tools, Cloud Source Repos, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Endpoints, and APIgee, Cloud Functions

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