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Introduction to Google Compute Engine

By Lynn Langit
Learn about concepts and technologies that make up the Google Compute Engine service, and understand what GCE (hosted virtual machines) on Google's cloud has to offer for developers.
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(41)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 4, 2013
Duration
1h 26m
Table of contents
Introduction to Google Compute Engine
Overview 2m What is the GCE? 3m What is GCE really? 2m Why should you use GCE? 6m
Getting started with GCE
Setting up your account 5m Demo: Navigating to the console 4m Demo: Understanding the GCE console 3m Working with the APIs 4m Understanding GCE Architecture 3m Understanding Billing 1m Demo: Billing 6m Why should you use GCE - revisited 2m Demo: How fast is it? 3m
Using gcutil
Setting up gcutil 2m Demo:gcutil 6m Demo: working with gcutil and ssh 3m Connecting to GCE with gcutil 2m
GCE Implementation
How does disk storage work with GCE? 2m Networking and Virtualization details 2m
Using the GCE API in Java
Setting up for API Programming 3m Demo: Using the API Console, gcutil and the web console 4m Demo: More Programming and Using Samples 11m
Next steps and futures with GCE
Next steps - GCE 2m About Google Fiber 1m Using Developer Resources for GCE 1m
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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 4, 2013
Duration
1h 26m
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In this course, Google Developer Expert Lynn Langit introduces you to Google's Cloud technologies for hosted virtual machines or Google Compute Engine. This course will get you up and running with the definitions and technologies you need to know. By the end of the course, you’ll know what Google has to offer in the infrastructure as a service cloud arena and how to devise a strategy for adopting Google Compute Engine. The 'Introduction to Google cloud' Pluralsight course is a prerequisite. This course is aimed at developers and business decision makers, and is actionable for executives as well. It includes a demos of using the various tools and APIs to work with GCE.

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Lynn Langit
About the author

Lynn Langit has been working with data for over 14 years. She is an architect, author and popular speaker on SQL Server, Google Cloud, Hadoop, MongoDB and more.

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Updated
Mar 4, 2013
Duration
1h 26m
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