Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

(1 day)

 

This course uses lectures and labs to give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services. You learn about the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.

Objectives

This course teaches participants the following skills:

  • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services
  • Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud
  • Explain how to create basic infrastructure in Google Cloud
  • Select and use Google Cloud storage options
  • Describe the purpose and value of Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Identify the use cases for serverless Google Cloud services.

 Audience 

This class is intended for the following:

  • Individuals planning to deploy applications and create application environments on Google Cloud
  • Developers, systems operations professionals, and solution architects getting started with Google Cloud
  • Executives and business decision makers evaluating the potential of Google Cloud to address their business needs

Prerequisites

Familiarity with application development, systems operations, Linux operating systems, and data analytics or machine learning is helpful in understanding the technologies covered.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introducing Google Cloud

  • Identify the advantages of Google Cloud
  • Define the components of Google’s network infrastructure, including: points of presence, data centers, regions, and zones
  • Identify the difference between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)

Module 2: Resources and Access in the Cloud

  • Identify the purpose of projects on Google Cloud
  • Define the purpose of and use cases for IAM
  • List the interaction methods with Google Cloud
  • Use Cloud Marketplace to interact with Google Cloud
  • Lab: Getting Started with Cloud Marketplace

Module 3: Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud

  • Explore the basics of networking in Google Cloud
  • Identify the purpose of and use cases for Google Compute Engine
  • Outline how Google Compute Engine can scale
  • Detail important VPC compatibilities including routing tables, firewalls and VPC peering
  • Explore how Cloud Load Balancing functions in Google Cloud
  • Deploy a basic infrastructure to Google Cloud
  • Lab: Getting Started with VPC Networking and Google Compute Engines

Module 4: Storage in the Cloud

  • Identify the purpose of and use cases for Cloud Storage
  • Distinguish between Cloud Storage classes
  • Distinguish between Google Cloud’s Database storage options
  • Deploy an application that uses Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage.

Module 5: Containers in the Cloud

  • Define the concept of a container and identify uses for containers
  • Identify the purpose of and use cases for Kubernetes and Google
    Kubernetes Engine

Module 6: Applications in the Cloud

  • Identify the purpose and use cases for Cloud Run
  • Describe how Cloud Functions can support application development on Google Cloud
  • Deploy a containerized application on Cloud Run
  • Lab: Hello Cloud Run