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