Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

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Approx. 8 hours to complete

Course Summary

This course on GCP Infrastructure Core Services teaches students how to use Google Cloud Platform to build and manage high-performing, secure, and scalable infrastructure for their applications.

Key Learning Points

  • Learn how to use GCP's core infrastructure services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, and Kubernetes Engine.
  • Gain knowledge on how to design and deploy highly available and fault-tolerant applications.
  • Understand how to use GCP's networking and security services to secure and manage your infrastructure.

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Learning Outcomes

  • Design and deploy highly available and fault-tolerant applications
  • Manage and secure infrastructure using GCP's networking and security services
  • Utilize GCP's core infrastructure services to build and manage scalable infrastructure

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

  • Basic knowledge of cloud computing concepts
  • Familiarity with Linux command-line interface

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

  • Online
  • Self-paced
  • Video lectures
  • Hands-on labs

Similar Courses

  • Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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Description

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

Knowledge

  • Learn about Cloud IAM and administer Identity and Access Management for resources.
  • Discover the different data storage services in Google Cloud, and implement some of those services.
  • Manage and examine billing of Google Cloud resources.
  • Monitor Google Cloud resources using Google Cloud’s operations suite.

Outline

  • Introduction
  • Course Introduction
  • Welcome to Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
  • How to download course resources
  • Cloud IAM
  • Module Overview
  • Cloud IAM
  • Organization
  • Roles
  • Demo: Custom roles
  • Members
  • Service Accounts
  • Cloud IAM best practices
  • Lab Intro: Cloud IAM
  • Getting Started with Google Cloud and Qwiklabs
  • Lab Review: Cloud IAM
  • Module Review
  • Cloud IAM
  • Storage and Database Services
  • Module Overview
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Storage Features
  • Choosing a storage class
  • Filestore
  • Lab Intro: Cloud Storage
  • Lab Review: Cloud Storage
  • Cloud SQL
  • Lab Intro: Cloud SQL
  • Lab Review: Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Spanner
  • Cloud Firestore
  • Cloud Bigtable
  • Cloud Memorystore
  • Module Review
  • Storage and Database Services
  • Resource Management
  • Module Overview
  • Cloud Resource Manager
  • Quotas
  • Labels and names
  • Billing
  • Demo: Billing Administration
  • Lab Intro: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery
  • Lab Review: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery
  • Module Review
  • Resource Management
  • Resource Monitoring
  • Module Overview
  • Google Cloud's Operations Suite
  • Monitoring
  • Lab Intro: Resource Monitoring
  • Lab Review: Resource Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Error Reporting
  • Tracing
  • Debugging
  • Lab Intro: Error Reporting and Debugging
  • Lab Review: Error Reporting and Debugging
  • Module Review
  • Course Review
  • Next Course: Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
  • Resource Monitoring

Summary of User Reviews

This course on Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Core Services has received positive feedback from users. Many have praised the comprehensive and practical approach of the course in teaching core GCP services.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

Comprehensive and practical approach

Pros from User Reviews

  • Well-structured content that covers all core GCP services
  • Hands-on labs and exercises that reinforce learning
  • Experienced instructors with industry knowledge
  • Good pace and easy to follow
  • Great for beginners and those with some experience

Cons from User Reviews

  • Some users felt that the course could have gone into more depth on certain topics
  • The labs require a lot of setup and some users found this frustrating
  • A few users found the course to be too basic for their level of expertise
  • No official certification offered upon completion
  • Some users found the course to be a bit expensive
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