Theory

• Introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)​
• Create and managing Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, Firewall rules using VPC​
• Creating and managing Subnetworks for resource management instead of physical network topology​

Hands-On Labs

• Creating and configuring virtual networks, subnets, firewall rules, NAT gateways, cloud routers, as well as virtual machines inside those networks​
• Setting up firewall rules to configure a simple environment securely that only allows SSH to the bastion via IAP.​

Theory

• Introduction to Google Compute Engine (GCE) and its features​
• Compute Engine Machine Families and Types​
• Compute Engine Images (in-built and custom)​
• Creating VM instances using Startup scripts and Instance Templates, Billing, Live Migration and Availability Policies​

Hands-On Labs

• Creating a few VM instances​
• Observing the lifecycle of VM instances​
• Using SSH to connect to VM instances​
• Setting up and launching HTTP server on the VM instance​

Theory

• Introduction to Identity Access Management​
• Resource Hierarchy in an organization​
• Predefined Roles, Custom Roles, Primitive Roles​
• IAM Best Practices​
• Ensuring Privacy with Data Loss Prevention API and Legal Compliance
• Encryption At Rest and In Motion
• Key Management​

Hands-On Labs

• Grant and revoke roles to change access. Use Cloud IAM to implement access control, restrict access to specific features and resources, and use the service account user role. ​

Theory

• Introduction to App Engine and its features​
• App Engine types and environments​
• Scaling instances based on the load, requests received, number of instances to run​
• Version management in App Engine, splitting traffic for various versions configuring the YAML file for deployment​

Hands-On Labs

• Deploy an application to cloud using App Engine​
• Deploy new versions without downtime​

Theory

• Introduction to containers and creating them using Cloud Build​
• Storing a container in Container Registry​
• Understanding the relationship between Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)​
• Understanding how to choose among GCP compute platforms​
• Understanding the architecture of Kubernetes​

Hands-on Labs

• Create a GKE cluster, get authentication credentials for the cluster and create a new deployment hello-server from hello-app container in Google Container Registry to view the application in a web browser. ​

Theory

• Introduction to Cloud Pub/Sub, how it works, sending and receiving messages via Pub/Sub. ​
• Cloud Functions concepts and event triggering​
• Cloud Source Repositories, Specialty APIs and its features
• API Management​

Hands-on Labs

• Deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Command Line​

Theory

• Introduction to Cloud Virtual Private Network (VPN), its features and types of solutions​
• Introduction to Cloud Interconnect and its recommendations as per bandwidths​
• Direct Peering to connect of external networks

Hands-on Labs

• Creating and configuring VPN connection between two networks with subnets in different regions. Now verify the VPN connection, by pinging virtual machines in different networks using their internal IP addresses​.
• Configure the VPN gateways and tunnels, using the GCP console​

Theory

• Introduction to Cloud Storage: Objects and Buckets​
• Cloud storage classes and their features​
• Object versioning and object lifecycle management​

Hands-On Labs

• Create and Interact with first GCS bucket using the UI and Command Line tool​

Theory

• Google Managed Service and their features​
• Relational Databases: Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Big Query​
• No SQL Databases: Cloud FireStore, Cloud BigTable​

Hands-On Labs

• Create a new MySQL instance, connect to it, set up and query a database, and clean up the instance​.
• Storing and retrieving data from a data store by creating a webservice​.

Theory

• Defining the Stackdriver services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging​
• Creating charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Stackdriver Monitoring​
• Using Stackdriver Debugger to identify and fix errors​

Hands-on Labs

• Creating a resource and monitoring it using Stackdriver​
• Error Reporting and Debugging​