Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
This course uses lectures and hands-on labs to give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services. You will learn where Google Cloud adds value and how to build cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.
- Duration: 1 day
- Languages: English, German
- Level: Introductory
- Group size: Up to 16
What you'll learn
- Identify the purpose and benefits of Google Cloud products and services.
- Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud.
- Explain how to build basic infrastructure in Google Cloud.
- Choose and use Google Cloud storage options.
- Describe the purpose and value of Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Identify use cases for Google Cloud's serverless services.
- Explore Google Cloud best practices and generative AI tools.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with application development, systems operations, Linux operating systems, and data analytics or machine learning is helpful for understanding the technologies covered.
Course outline
Course overview
- Outlines the course objectives and briefly introduces each section.
Introducing Google Cloud
- Cloud computing overview
- IaaS and PaaS
- The Google Cloud network
- Environmental impact
- Security
- Open source ecosystems
- Pricing and billing
Resources and access in the cloud
- Google Cloud resource hierarchy
- IAM
- IAM roles
- Service accounts
- Cloud Identity
- Interacting with Google Cloud
Virtual machines and networks in the cloud
- Virtual Private Cloud networking
- Compute Engine
- Scaling virtual machines
- Important VPC compatibilities
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Cloud DNS and Cloud CDN
- Connecting networks to Google VPC
Storage in the cloud
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Spanner
- Firestore
- Cloud Bigtable
- Comparing storage options
Containers in the cloud
- Introduction to containers
- Kubernetes
- Google Kubernetes Engine
Applications in the cloud
- Cloud Run
- Cloud Functions
Prompt engineering
- Introduction to generative AI
- Introduction to large language models
- Prompt engineering and recommended practices
Course summary
- Recaps the key concepts introduced over the course.
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