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Architecting with Google Compute Engine

  • Number of Courses4 courses
  • Duration14 hours
  • Skill IQ available Skill IQ

This skill path covers the objectives needed to implement, deploy, migrate and maintain applications on Google Cloud Platform. It introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This path also covers deploying practical solutions including securely interconnecting networks, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring. Although this path aligns with the topics for the GCP Professional Cloud Architect and Associate Cloud Engineer exams, it is not a cert exam prep path. This is a path to teach the practical on the job skills for Architecting with GCP.

Courses in this path

Beginner

This section introduces you to important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You learn about, and compare, many of the computing and storage services available in Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, and Google Container Engine.

Intermediate

In this section You will learn how to use the Google Cloud Platform through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules. It also covers deploying practical solutions including access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

Advanced

This section covers deploying practical solutions including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services. Learners explore services provided to applications built on GCP that enhance their scalability and maintainability. They work with services like Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Functions to make applications more efficient. They also explore the use of containers on GCP.

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