Overview
The Google Cloud Fundamentals course provides a comprehensive introduction to Google Cloud products and services through lectures and hands-on labs. It is designed to help participants understand the value of Google Cloud and integrate cloud-based solutions into their business strategies.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- 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.
Prerequisites
Basic experience with IT or software development. Basic familiarity with programming or scripting. Basic command line proficiency (CLI). Basic understanding of cloud concepts (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) (nice to have). Basic networking knowledge (IP addresses, DNS, and firewalls) (nice to have). Basic understanding of virtualization (virtual machines and containers) (nice to have).
Course Outline
- Identify the benefits of Google Cloud.
- Define the components of the Google 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)
- Identify the purpose of projects on Google Cloud.
- Define the purpose of and use cases for Identity and Access Management (IAM).
- List the interaction methods with Google Cloud.
- Use Cloud Marketplace to interact with Google Cloud.
- Lab: Getting Started with Cloud Marketplace.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lab: Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL.
- Define the concept of a container and identify uses for containers.
- Identify the purpose of and use cases for Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.
- 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.
