Why Google Cloud Platform

This hands-on essentials course introduces you to the concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You learn GCP, learn about product and services how to manage these services using the methods that GCP provides.

In this course you will start with knowing how to find information on the GCP and the services it has to offer and, then go on to learnabout GCP core infrastructure – regions, zones and projects.

In the lab lessons, you will learn how to create a account, use GCP console to manage the most commonly used services, compute, storage and databases.

Duration: 3Days

Who should take this course?

This course is an essential requirement for systems operations professionals and systems administrators and architect who use Google Cloud Platform to create or migrate application environments and infrastructure.

Course Content

Module 1: Introducing Google Cloud Platform

• Advantages of Google Cloud Platform
• Components of Google’s network infrastructure, including: Points of presence, datao centers, regions, and zones
• Difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS)

Module 2: Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform

• Identify the purpose of projects on Google Cloud Platform
• Understand the purpose of and use cases for Identity and Access Management
• List the methods of interacting with Google Cloud Platform

Module 3: Instances

• Explain how to create and move instances
• Identify how to connect to and manage instances

Module 4: Networks

• Explain how to create and manage networks in projects
• Identify how to create and manage firewall rules, routes, and IP addresses

Module 5: Disks and Images

• Explain how to create and manage persistent disks
• Identify how to create and manage disk images

Module 6: Authorization

• Explain the purposes of and use cases for Google Compute Engine service accounts
• Identify the types of service account scopes

Module 7: Snapshots

• Identify the purpose of and use cases for disk snapshots
• Explain the process of creating a snapshot

Module 8: Google Cloud Storage

• Explain the purpose of and use cases for Google Cloud Storage
• Identify methods for accessing Google Cloud Storage buckets and objects
• Explain the security options available for Google Cloud Storage buckets and objects

Module 9: Instance Groups

• Identify the purpose of and use cases for instance groups
• Explain the process of creating and using instance groups

Module 10: Google Cloud SQL

• Understand how to create and administer Cloud SQL instances
• Explain how to access Cloud SQL instances from Compute Engine instances

Module 11: Metadata

• Explain the purpose of metadata and identify the use cases for project and instance metadata
• Identify how to set and query metadata

Module 12: Startup and Shutdown Scripts

• Identify the purpose of and use cases for startup and shutdown scripts

Module 13: Auto scaling

• Explain the use cases for autoscaling and how autoscaling functions
• Identify the purpose of autoscaling policies

Module 14: Load Balancing

• Explain the differences between network load balancing and HTTP load balancing
• Identify the purpose of and use cases for cross-region and content-based load balancing