Google Cloud

Core Infrastructure
Module 9

On-demand course
March 2022
Congratulations on completing the Google Cloud Core Infrastructure course!

Before you go, let’s take a few minutes to review what we’ve covered.
Module 01

01 Google Cloud and cloud computing

02 Managed infrastructure and services with IaaS and PaaS

03 The Google Cloud network

04 Security throughout the infrastructure

05 Open source

06 Pricing structure and billing tools

In module 1, you were introduced to Google Cloud and cloud computing.

Specifically, you explored:

● The concept of managed infrastructure and managed services, through IaaS,

or infrastructure as a service, and PaaS, or platform as a service.

● The Google Cloud network.

● Google Cloud’s focus on security throughout our infrastructure.

● How Google publishes key elements of technology using open source

licenses.

● And Google Cloud’s pricing structure and billing tools.

● And Google Cloud’s pricing structure and billing tools.

Module 02
01 Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy:
● Resources
● Projects
● Folders
● Organization node

02 Policies

03 Identity and Access Management (IAM)

04 Ways to access and interact with Google Cloud:

● Google Cloud console
● Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell
● APIs
● Google Cloud console Mobile App

In module 2, you learned about the Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy, which is made
up of four levels: resources, projects, folders, and an organization node.

You also learned about:

● Defining policies and their downward inheritance.

● When to use Identity and Access Management, or IAM,

● And the four ways to access and interact with Google Cloud: through the
Google Cloud console, the Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell, APIs, and the Google
Cloud console Mobile App.
Module 03

01 Google Compute Engine

02 Virtual private cloud (VPC)

03 Compute Engine’s Autoscaling feature

Google Virtual Private Cloud compatibility features:

04 routing tables, firewalls, VPC peering, shared VPC

05 Cloud Load Balancing

06 Google Cloud interconnect

In module 3, you explored how Compute Engine works, with a focus on virtual
machines and virtual networking.

You were introduced to:

● The VPC, or virtual private cloud.

● Compute Engine’s Autoscaling feature.

● And important Google Virtual Private Cloud compatibility features, like routing
tables, firewalls, VPC peering and shared VPC, all of which result in the need
for less network management.

● You also explored Cloud Load Balancing, a fully distributed, software-defined,

managed service for all your traffic.

● Finally, you compared how on-premises or other-cloud networks can be

interconnected with a Google VPC.
Module 04

01 Google Cloud’s core storage options

● Cloud Storage
● Cloud Bigtable
● Cloud SQL
● Cloud Spanner
● Firestore

02 Four Cloud Storage classes

● Standard
● Nearline
● Coldline
● Archive

In module 4, you explored Google Cloud's five core storage options: Cloud Storage,
Cloud Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, and Firestore.

You also examined the four storage classes that make up Cloud Storage:

● Standard Storage, which is used for frequently accessed hot data,

● Nearline Storage and Coldline Storage, which are used for less-frequently
accessed cool data,

● and Archive Storage.

Module 05

01 Containers

02 Kubernetes

03 Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

04 Anthos

In module 5, you learned about containers, which are invisible boxes around your code
and its dependencies.

You were introduced to three container-based products:

● Kubernetes, an open-source platform for managing containerized workloads

and services.

● Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a Google-hosted managed Kubernetes

service in the cloud.

● And Anthos, Google’s answer to modern hybrid and multi-cloud distributed

systems and services management.
Module 06

01 Developing applications in the cloud

02 Google App Engine:

● Standard environment
● Flexible environment

03 API management tools:

● Cloud Endpoints
● API Gateway
● Apigee API Management

04 Cloud Run

In module 6, the focus was on developing applications in the cloud.

You explored:

● App Engine, a fully managed, serverless platform for developing and hosting
web applications at scale, and the two of App Engine environments: standard
and flexible.

● Three API management tools provided by Google Cloud: Cloud Endpoints, API
Gateway, and Apigee API Management.

● And Cloud Run, a managed compute platform that lets you run stateless
containers via web requests or Pub/Sub events.
Module 07

01 Developing and deploying in the cloud

02 Cloud Source Repositories

03 Cloud Functions

04 Terraform

The focus for module 7 was developing and deploying in the cloud.

You learned about:

● Cloud Source Repositories, which are full-featured Git repositories hosted on

Google Cloud.

● Cloud Functions, a lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute solution

to create single-purpose functions.

● And Terraform, which lets you use a template to write the specifications for
your application environment in the same way you’d write a configuration file.
Module 08

01 Logging and monitoring on Google Cloud

02 Four golden signals:

● Latency
● Traffic
● Saturation
● Errors

Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives

03 (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

04 Integrated observability tools

And in the final module, you focused on logging and monitoring on Google Cloud.

● The “Four Golden Signals” that measure a system’s performance and

reliability: latency, traffic, saturation, and errors.

● Service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and service
level agreements (SLAs), which are all types of targets set for a system’s Four
Golden Signal metrics.

● And finally, Google’s integrated observability tools, which include Cloud

Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.
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We hope that this course is just the beginning of your Google Cloud journey.

For more training and hands-on practice, explore the different learning paths available
at cloud.google.com/training.
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And if you’re interested in validating your expertise and showcasing your ability to
transform businesses with Google Cloud technology, you might consider working
toward a Google Cloud certification.

You can learn more about Google Cloud’s certification offerings at

cloud.google.com/certification.
 Thank you

Thanks for completing this course.

We’ll see you next time!