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Course Overview
Curious how leading organizations build scalable, secure, and flexible infrastructure in the cloud? Architecting with Google Compute Engine gives you a hands-on introduction to Google Cloud Platform’s core services, with a focus on Compute Engine, virtual networks, IAM, and storage. It’s the Google Compute Engine course that helps you move from fundamentals to production-ready design in just three days.
This engine course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines, and application services. You’ll also learn how to deploy practical solutions like hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, resource monitoring, and security and access management. By the end, you’ll be ready to build, scale, and manage real cloud solutions using Google’s infrastructure.
Who Should Attend
This training course is ideal for cloud solutions architects, DevOps engineers, and individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems into modern application environments. It’s also suitable for those preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification or building a career in cloud architecture.
Course Objectives
This three-day course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a strong focus on Compute Engine. You’ll gain practical skills in provisioning, configuring, and securing VMs, managing identities, and automating infrastructure with the Google Cloud Console and CLI. The course also covers storage, IAM, billing, load balancing, and how to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud. Whether you're building new solutions or looking to integrate existing systems, the course prepares you to confidently deploy scalable solutions and prepares you for Google Cloud certification.
Course Outline
Course Outline
Introduction
- Overview of the course curriculum and learning goals
- Understanding Google Cloud’s flexible infrastructure
- How to use Google Cloud to create new or integrate existing systems
Virtual Networks and Infrastructure Components
- Designing VPCs, subnets, and firewall rules
- Setting up interconnecting networks and routing
- Using peering services available to connect your infrastructure
Compute and Storage Services
- Launching and configuring VM instances
- Working with cloud storage and local SSDs
- Using prebuilt images and customizing startup scripts
IAM, Billing, and Security
- Managing identities with IAM
- Applying quotas and billing controls
- Enforcing customer-supplied encryption keys
Resource Monitoring and Automation
- Setting up resource monitoring with Google tools
- Automating deployments with Deployment Manager
- Integrating with Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring
Load Balancing and Scaling
- Configure load balancers for application traffic
- Use autoscaling to manage changing application environments
- High availability design using health checks and multi-zone deployments
Hybrid and Managed Services
- Implementing hybrid cloud architectures
- Leveraging managed services like Cloud SQL
- Introduction to infrastructure modernization options