Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Overview

This one-day instructor-led class provides an overview of Google Cloud Platform products and services. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn the value of Google Cloud Platform and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into business strategies.

This class is intended for the following participants:

• Individuals planning to deploy applications and create application environments on Google Cloud Platform.
• Developers, systems operations professionals, and solution architects getting started with Google Cloud Platform.
• Executives and business decision makers evaluating the potential of Google Cloud Platform to address their business needs.

Objectives

• Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud Platform products and services
• Interact with Google Cloud Platform services
• Describe ways in which customers have used Google Cloud Platform
• Choose among and use application deployment environments on Google Cloud Platform: Google App Engine, Google Container Engine, and Google Compute Engine
• Choose among and use Google Cloud Platform storage options: Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Bigtable, and Google Cloud Datastore
• Make basic use of BigQuery, Google’s managed data warehouse for analytics

Outline

• Module 1: Introducing Google Cloud Platform
• Module 2: Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform
• Module 3: Google App Engine and Google Cloud Datastore
• Module 4: Google Cloud Platform Storage Options
• Module 5: Google Container Engine
• Module 6: Google Compute Engine and Networking
• Module 7: Big Data and Machine Learning

Prerequisites

Familiarity with application development, systems operations, Linux operating systems, and data analytics/machine learning is helpful in understanding the technologies covered.