Architecting with Google Cloud Platform: Design and Process

• Apply a tool set of questions, techniques and design considerations
• Define application requirements and express them objectively as KPIs, SLO’s and SLI’s
• Decompose application requirements to find the right microservice boundaries
• Leverage Google Cloud developer tools to set up modern, automated deployment pipelines
• Choose the appropriate Google Cloud Storage services based on application requirements
• Discuss Google Cloud network architectures, including hybrid architectures
• Implement reliable, scalable, resilient applications balancing key performance metrics with cost
• Choose the right Google Cloud deployment services for your applications
• Secure cloud applications, data and infrastructure
• Monitor service level objectives and costs using Cloud Monitoring

• Cloud Solutions Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Systems Operations professionals, DevOps Engineers, IT managers
• Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with Google Cloud

• Have completed Architecting with Google Compute Engine, Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine, or have equivalent experience
• Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
• Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment

Module 1: Defining the Service

Objectives

• Describe users in terms of roles and personas
• Evaluate KPIs using SLOs and SLIs
• Determine the quality of application requirements using SMART criteria

Activites

• 3 activities
• quiz

Module 2: Microservice Design and Architecture

Objectives

• Decompose monolithic applications into microservices
• Recognize appropriate microservice boundaries
• Design consistent, standard RESTful service APIs
• Identify the 12-factor best practices for implementing services

Activities

• 2 activities
• 1 quiz

Module 3: DevOps Automation

Objectives

• Discuss the automation of service deployment using CI/CD pipelines
• Explain how to leverage Cloud Source Repositories for source and version control
• Automate builds with Cloud Build and build triggers
• Manage container images with Container Registry

Activities

• 1 lab
• 1 quiz

Module 4: Choosing Storage Solutions

Objectives

• Identify the use cases for Spanner
• Identify the use cases for Cloud SQL
• Identify the use cases for Firestore
• Identify the use cases for Memorystore

Activities

• 2 activities
• 1 quiz

Module 5: Google Cloud and Hybrid Network Architecture

Objectives

• Discuss the design of VPC networks to optimize for cost, security, and performance
• Describe how global and regional load balancers provide access to services
• Connect networks using peering and VPNs
• Define hybrid networks between Google Cloud and on-premises data centers using Cloud Interconnect

Activities

• 2 activities
• 1 quiz

Module 6: Deploying Applications to Google Cloud

Objectives

• Choose the appropriate Google Cloud deployment service for your applications
• Configure scalable, resilient infrastructure using Instance Templates and Groups
• Orchestrate microservice deployments using Kubernetes and GKE
• Leverage App Engine for a completely automated platform as a service (PaaS)

Activities

• 1 lab
• 1 quiz

Module 7: Designing Reliable Systems

Objectives

• Discuss the design of services to meet requirements for availability, durability, and scalability
• Identify the failures to be avoided to implement a fault-tolerant system

Activities

• 2 activities
• 1 quiz

Module 8: Security

Objectives

• Identify the best practices for designing secure systems
• Discuss the use of organizational policies and folders to simplify cloud governance
• Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged for access management
• Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged to mitigate DDoS attacks

Activities

• 1 activity
• 1 quiz

Module 9: Maintenance and Monitoring

Objectives

• Discuss different ways to manage new service versions
• Describe how to forecast, monitor, and optimize service costs
• Observe if your services are meeting their SLOs using Cloud Monitoring and Dashboards
• Use Uptime Checks to determine service availability
• Respond to service outages using Cloud Monitoring Alerts

Activities

• 1 activity
• 1 lab
• 1 quiz