Google Cloud Platform

What you'll learn

• Organise work with the organization, folders, projects, billing accounts and labels.
• Grant least-privilege access with IAM roles, dedicated service accounts and Workload Identity Federation.
• Choose between Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE and Cloud Run functions for a workload.
• Build event-driven systems with Pub/Sub, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks and Workflows.
• Pick storage, databases and BigQuery designs that balance performance, durability and cost.
• Design VPC networks and load balancing, and operate securely with observability, guardrails and budgets.

Syllabus

Google Cloud Foundations

1. Regions, Zones and the Global Network
2. Organization, Folders, Projects and Billing
3. Console, gcloud, Cloud Shell and Infrastructure as Code

Identity and Access Management

1. How IAM Works
2. Service Accounts
3. Workload Identity Federation

Compute Choices

1. Compute Engine and Managed Instance Groups
2. Cloud Run
3. Google Kubernetes Engine and App Engine

Events, Messaging and Serverless Integration

1. Cloud Run Functions and Eventarc
2. Pub/Sub
3. Cloud Tasks, Cloud Scheduler and Workflows

Storage and Databases

1. Cloud Storage
2. Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and Spanner
3. Firestore, Bigtable and Memorystore

BigQuery and Data Processing

1. BigQuery Essentials
2. Dataflow, Dataproc and Pipelines
3. Vertex AI and BigQuery ML

Networking

1. VPC Networks, Subnets and Firewall Rules
2. Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor
3. Private Connectivity and DNS

Operations, Security, Cost and Revision

1. Delivery and Observability
2. Secret Manager, Organization Policies and Security Command Center
3. Cost Management and Discounts
4. Google Cloud Revision and Interview Questions