Architecting with Google Compute Engine
This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine. This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You'll also learn how to deploy practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
What you will learn
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
- Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
- Implement VPC networks and firewall rules
- Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
- Administer Identity and Access Management for resources
- Implement data storage services in Google Cloud
- Manage and examine billing of Google Cloud resources
- Monitor resources using Google Cloud services
- Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
- Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services
- Leverage managed services in Google Cloud
Prerequisites
- Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure 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
Target audience
- Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers, Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine
Training Program
11 modules to master the fundamentals
Objectives
- List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
- Create Cloud Storage buckets
- Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
Activities
Lab: Console and Cloud Shell
Lab: Infrastructure Preview
Module quiz
Objectives
- List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
- Explore VPC Networking
- Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
Activities
Lab: VPC Networking
Lab: Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
Module quiz
Objectives
- Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines
- Describe the disk options for virtual machines
- Explain VM pricing and discounts
- Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
Activities
Lab: Creating Virtual Machines
Lab: Working with Virtual Machines
Module quiz
Objectives
- Describe the IAM resource hierarchy
- Explain the different types of IAM roles
- Recall the different types of IAM members
- Implement access control for resources using IAM
Activities
Lab: Cloud IAM
Module quiz
Objectives
- Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore and Cloud Bigtable
- Choose a data storage service based on your requirements
- Implement data storage services
Activities
Lab: Cloud Storage
Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL
Module quiz
Objectives
- Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy
- Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers
- Organize resources using labels
- Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud
- Examine billing data with BigQuery
Activities
Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery
Module quiz
Objectives
- Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging
- Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring
- Identify and fix errors using Cloud Debugger
Activities
Lab: Resource Monitoring
Lab: Error Reporting and Debugging
Module quiz
Objectives
- Recall the Google Cloud interconnect and peering services available to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
- Determine which Google Cloud interconnect or peering service to use in specific circumstances
- Create and configure Google Cloud HA VPN
- Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering
Activities
Lab: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Module quiz
Objectives
- Recall the various load balancing services
- Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances
- Describe autoscaling behavior
- Configure load balancers and autoscaling
Activities
Lab: ILT Configure an HTTP Load Balancer with Autoscaling
Lab: Configuring an Internal Load Balancer
Module quiz
Objectives
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform
- Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace
Activities
Lab: Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform
Module quiz
Objectives
- Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud
Activities
Module quiz
Quality Process
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- Lectures / Theoretical Slides — Presentation of concepts using visual aids (PowerPoint, PDF).
- Technical Demonstration (Demos) — The instructor performs a task or procedure while students observe.
- Guided Labs — Guided practical exercises on software, hardware, or technical environments.
- Quiz / MCQ — Quick knowledge check (paper-based or digital via tools like Kahoot/Klaxoon).
The achievement of training objectives is evaluated at multiple levels to ensure quality:
- Continuous Knowledge Assessment : Verification of knowledge throughout the training via participatory methods (quizzes, practical exercises, case studies) under instructor supervision.
- Progress Measurement : Comparative self-assessment system including an initial diagnostic to determine the starting level, followed by a final evaluation to validate skills development.
- Quality Evaluation : End-of-session satisfaction questionnaire to measure the relevance and effectiveness of the training as perceived by participants.
Upcoming sessions
Train multiple employees
- Volume discounts (multiple seats)
- Private or custom session
- On-site or remote