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Architecting with Google Compute Engine

  • Length 3 days
  • Price  $2840 inc GST
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Why study this course

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.

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What you’ll learn

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


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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for the following participants:

  • Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers

  • Individuals using Google Cloud Platform to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with a focus on Google Compute Engine.


Course subjects

Module 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 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 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 customise VM instances using Compute Engine

  • Lab: Creating Virtual Machines

  • Lab: Working with Virtual Machines

Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • 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

  • Lab: Cloud IAM

Module 5: Storage and Database Services

  • 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

  • Lab: Cloud Storage

  • Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL

Module 6: Resource Management

  • Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy

  • Recognise how quotas protect Google Cloud customers

  • Organise resources using labels

  • Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud

  • Examine billing data with BigQuery

  • Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery

Module 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 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 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 10: Infrastructure Automation

  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Deployment
    Manager or Terraform

  • Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace

  • Lab: Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform

Module 11: Managed Services

  • Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud


Prerequisites

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

  • 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


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The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.


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