Theory

• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals Core Infrastructure​
• Understanding Regions and Zones in Google Cloud Platform​
• Budgets and Billing​
• The Google Cloud Platform resource hierarchy​
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)​
• Cloud Marketplace (formerly Cloud Launcher)​

Lab: Interacting with Google Cloud Platform​

• Accessing the Cloud Console​
• Projects in the Cloud Console​ing Your Costs with Google Cloud Billing Reports​
• Navigation menu and services​
• Roles and permissions​
• APIs and services​

Lab: Understanding and Analyzing Your Costs with Google Cloud Billing Reports​

Lab: Getting Started with Cloud Marketplace (formerly Cloud Launcher)​

• Sign into the Google Cloud Platform Console​
• Use Cloud Marketplace to deploy a LAMP stack​
• Verify your deployment​

Lab: Cloud IAM​

• Use Cloud IAM to implement access control​
• Restrict access to specific features or resources​
• Use the Service Account User role​ ​

Theory

• What is virtual machine?​
• Google Compute Engine​
• Creating & Working with Virtual Machines​
• Machine Types and images​
• Instance Groups ​
• Load Balancing (HTTP(S), SSL/TCP proxy, Network, Internal load balancing)​
• Scalability vertical & horizontal scaling

Lab: Running a basic Apache web server

• Install Apache​
• Test that VM is serving traffic on its external IP.

Lab: Install Docker on Google Compute Engine

• Install Docker​
• Build docker image​
• Access new machine​

Lab: Create an Internal Load Balancer

• Create HTTP and health check firewall rules​
• Configure two instance templates​
• Create two managed instance groups​
• Configure and test an internal load balancer​

Theory

• Introduction to Containers ​
• Working with Pods, Services, and Controllers​
• Introduction to Kubernetes​
• Containers and Kubernetes in Google Cloud​

Lab:

• Deploying Google Kubernetes Engine​
• Use the Google Cloud Console to build and manipulate GKE clusters

Theory

• Introduction to App Engine​
• Google App Engine Standard Environment​
• Google App Engine Flexible Environment​
• Understanding App Engine Component Hierarchy​
• Services and Versions​
• Traffic Splitting​

Lab: Getting Started with the App Engine​

• Initialize App Engine.​
• Preview an App Engine application running locally in Cloud Shell.​
• Deploy an App Engine application, so that others can reach it.​
• Disable an App Engine application, when you no longer want it to be visible.​

Theory

• Introduction to Cloud Functions​
• Cloud Functions Receiving Events from Cloud Storage​
• Cloud Functions Receiving Events from Pub/Sub​

Lab:

• Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Storage Events​
• Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Pub/Sub Events Using Cloud Console

Theory: Types of Storage Systems​

• Cache
• Persistent Storage​
• Object Storage​

Theory: Storage Types: When Planning a Storage Solution

Theory: Introdcution to Storage Data Models ​

• Object: Cloud Storage ​
• Relational: Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, and BigQuery
• NoSQL: Datastore, Cloud Firestore, and Bigtable ​

Theory: Choosing a Storage Solution: Guidelines to Consider​

Lab: Getting Started with Cloud Storage​

• Deploy a web server VM instance​
• Create a Cloud Storage bucket using the gsutil command line​
• Configure an application in a Compute Engine instance to use a Cloud Storage object​

Theory: Storage concepts such as:

• Snapshots​
• Standby​
• Availability and Durability
• RTO and RPO ​
• Read Replicas​

Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL​

• Create a Cloud SQL database.​
• Configure a virtual machine to run a proxy.​
• Create a connection between an application and Cloud SQL. ​
• Connect an application to Cloud SQL using Private IP address.​

Theory

• Understanding Command Structure in Gcloud to play with Services​
• Cloud Shell​

Lab: Working with the Cloud Console and Cloud Shell​

• Get access to Gcloud.​
• Use Cloud Shell to create a Cloud Storage bucket.​
• Become familiar with Cloud Shell features.​

Theory

• Cloud VPN​
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)​
• VPCs and Subnets in GCP​
• CIDR Blocks​
• Firewall & Firewall rules​
• Shared VPC​
• Cloud DNS​
• Cloud Interconnect and Peering​
• Hybrid Network Architecture​

Lab: VPC Networking Explore the default VPC network

• Create an auto mode network with firewall rules.
• Convert an auto mode network to a custom mode network. ​
• Create custom mode VPC networks with firewall rules. ​
• Create VM instances using Compute Engine. Explore the connectivity for VM instances across VPC networks​

Lab: Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT​

Theory

• Development in Cloud​
• Deployment Infrastructure as code​
• Deploying Applications to Google Cloud​
• Managing Versions & Cost Planning​
• Monitoring Dashboards

Lab: Getting Started with Deployment Manager​

• Create a Deployment Manager deployment.​
• Update a Deployment Manager deployment.
• View the load on a VM instance using Cloud Monitoring.​

Lab: Monitoring Applications in Google Cloud Download a sample app from Github. Deploy an application to App Engine. Examine the Cloud logs. View Profiler information. Explore Cloud Trace. Monitor resources using dashboards. Create uptime checks and alerts.​

Theory

• Resource Manager​
• Billing Administration
• Monitoring​
• Logging, Error Reporting, Tracing & Debugging​

Lab:

• Examining Billing data with BigQuery​
• Resource Monitoring Explore Cloud Monitoring. Add charts to dashboards. Create alerts with multiple conditions. Create resource groups. Create uptime checks.​
• Error Reporting and Debugging​.