Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation


This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services. Prerequisites: To get the most out of this course, participants should have: • Completed Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals (Core Infrastructure or AWS Professionals.) or have equivalent experience • Completed Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation or have equivalent experience • Completed Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services or have equivalent experience • Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments • Systems Operations experience including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment

Welcome to Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Introduction to this course.
1 video (Total 1 min), 1 reading
1 video
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Course Intro1m
1 reading
How to download course resources2m
2 hours to complete

Module 1: Interconnecting Networks

In this module, you'll learn about the three general ways to interconnect networks using GCP. You'll learn about Cloud VPN, Cloud Router,
Cloud Interconnect, Direct Peering, Cloud DNS, and you will complete a hands-on lab on virtual private networks.
11 videos (Total 24 min), 2 quizzes
11 videos
Module Overview (Intro)45s
GCP Networking Overview2m
Cloud VPN (Virtual Private Networks)1m
Lab Virtual Private Networks (Overview and Objectives)44s
Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform and Qwiklabs3m
Lab Virtual Private Networks (Review)45s
Cloud Router1m
Cloud Interconnect3m
External Peering8m
Cloud DNS1m
Module 1 Review (Outro)25s
1 practice exercise
Module 1 Quiz6m

2 hours to complete


Module 2: Load Balancing

In this module, you will learn about managed instance groups and different types of load balancing that you can configure using GCP.
11 videos (Total 28 min), 2 quizzes
11 videos
Module Overview (Intro)1m
Managed Instance Groups5m
HTTP(S) load balancing7m
Cross-region and content-based load balancing1m
SSL proxy/TCP proxy load balancing1m
Network load balancing5m
Internal load balancing34s
Load balancing best practices2m
Lab Virtual Machine Automation and Load Balancing (Overview and Objectives)51s
Lab Virtual Machine Automation and Load Balancing (Review)24s
Module 2 Review (Outro)23s
1 practice exercise
Module 2 Quiz6m
1 hour to complete

Module 3: Autoscaling

In this module, you will learn more about managed instance groups and how they can offer autoscaling capabilities that allow you to
automatically add or remove instances based on increases or decreases in load.
7 videos (Total 9 min), 2 quizzes
7 videos
Module Overview (Intro)41s
Autoscaling2m
Policies3m
Configuration1m
Lab Autoscaling (Overview and Objectives)22s
Lab Autoscaling (Review)31s
Module 3 Review (Outro)25s
1 practice exercise
Module 3 Quiz6m
Week
2
2 hours to complete

Module 4: Infrastructure Automation with Cloud API

In this module, you'll look at ways you can automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
10 videos (Total 24 min), 2 quizzes
10 videos

Module Overview (Intro)59s

Infrastructure Automation3m

Images2m

Demo: Export an image9m

Metadata2m

Scripts1m

Google Cloud API1m

Lab Google Cloud Platform API Infrastructure Automation (Overview and Objectives)41s

Lab Google Cloud Platform API Infrastructure Automation (Review)36s

Module 4 Review (Outro)46s

1 practice exercise

Module 4 Quiz6m

1 hour to complete


Module 5: Infrastructure Automation with Deployment Manager

In this module, you'll learn about Deployment Manager, configuration, and Cloud Launcher. You'll complete a hands-on lab that includes
downloading Deployment Manager templates and using them to deploy a specified infrastructure.
8 videos (Total 9 min), 2 quizzes
8 videos

Module Overview (Intro)1m

Deployment Manager1m

Configuration1m

Cloud Launcher29s

Demo: Cloud Launcher2m

Lab Deployment Manager (Overview and Objectives)19s

Lab Deployment Manager (Review)11s

Module 5 Review (Outro)36s

1 practice exercise

Module 5 Quiz6m

19 minutes to complete

Module 6: Managed Services

In this module, you'll learn about the spectrum of managed services available and how to leverage the managed services available through

GCP to outsource a lot of the administrative and maintenance overhead of your infrastructure to Google.

9 videos (Total 13 min), 1 quiz
9 videos

Module Overview (Intro)1m

Managed Services1m

Dataproc1m


Demo: Dataproc2m

Dataflow2m

BigQuery41s

Other Services1m

Module 6 Review31s

Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Course Outro54s
1 practice exercise

Module 6 Quiz6m