Architecting with Google Cloud Design and Process

This course features a combination of lectures, design activities, and hands-on labs to show you how to use proven design patterns on Google Cloud to build highly reliable and efficient solutions and operate deployments that are highly available and cost-effective. This course was created for those who have already completed the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine course.

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Duration 2 days
Level intermediate
Format Instructor led On-demand

What you'll learn

  • Apply a tool set of questions, techniques and design considerations
  • Define application requirements and express them objectively as KPIs, SLO’s and SLI’s
  • Decompose application requirements to find the right microservice boundaries
  • Leverage Google Cloud developer tools to set up modern, automated deployment pipelines
  • Choose the appropriate Google Cloud Storage services based on application requirements
  • Architect cloud and hybrid networks
  • Implement reliable, scalable, resilient applications balancing key performance metrics with cost
  • Choose the right Google Cloud deployment services for your applications
  • Secure cloud applications, data and infrastructure
  • Monitor service level objectives and costs using Stackdriver tools

About this course

Overview

9 Modules · 82 Videos · 3 Labs · 25 Classrom activities

Who this course is for
  • Cloud Solutions Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Systems Operations professionals, DevOps Engineers, IT managers
  • Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with the Google Cloud
Prerequisite
  • Have completed Architecting with Google Compute Engine, Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine, or have equivalent experience
  • Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
  • Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment
Products
  • App Engine
  • Cloud Deployment Manager
  • Cloud Functions
  • Cloud IAM
  • Cloud Load Balancing
  • Compute Engine
  • Cloud Build
  • Container Registry
  • VPC Networking
Not Covered

Tips and advice on taking the Professional Cloud Architect exam

Module 1
Defining the Service
Topics
  • Describe users in terms of roles and personas
  • Write qualitative requirements with user stories
  • Write quantitative requirements using key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Evaluate KPIs using SLOs and SLIs
  • Determine the quality of application requirements using SMART criteria
Activities

3 activities and 1 quiz

Module 2
Microservice Design and Architecture
Topics
  • Decompose monolithic applications into microservices
  • Recognize appropriate microservice boundaries
  • Architect stateful and stateless services to optimize scalability and reliability
  • Implement services using 12-factor best practices
  • Build loosely-coupled services by implementing a well-designed REST architecture
  • Design consistent, standard RESTful service APIs
Activities

2 activities and 1 quiz

Module 3
DevOps Automation
Topics
  • Automate service deployment using CI/CD pipelines
  • Leverage Cloud Source Repositories for source and version control
  • Automate builds with Google Cloud Build and build triggers
  • Manage container images with Google Container Registry
  • Create infrastructure with code using Deployment Manager and Terraform
Activities

1 lab and 1 quiz

Module 4
Choosing Storage Solutions
Topics
  • Choose the appropriate Google Cloud data storage service based use case, durability, availability, scalability and cost
  • Storage binary data with Cloud Storage
  • Store relational data using Cloud SQL and Spanner
  • Store NoSQL data using Firestore and BigTable
  • Cache data for fast access using Memorystore
  • Build a data warehouse using BigQuery
Activities

2 activities and 1 quiz

Module 5
Google Cloud and Hybrid Network Architecture
Topics
  • Design VPC networks to optimize for cost, security and performance
  • Configure global and regional load balancers to provide access to services
  • Leverage Cloud CDN to provide lower latency and decrease network egress
  • Evaluate network architecture using the Network Intelligence Center
  • Connect networks using peering and VPNs
  • Create hybrid networks between Google Cloud and on-premises data centers
Activities

2 activities and 1 quiz

Module 6
Deploying Applications to Google Cloud
Topics
  • Choose the appropriate Google Cloud deployment service for your applications
  • Configure scalable, resilient infrastructure using Instance Templates and Groups
  • Orchestrate microservice deployments using Kubernetes and GKE
  • Leverage App Engine for a completely automated platform as a service (PaaS)
  • Create serverless applications using Google Cloud Functions
Activities

1 lab and 1 quiz

Module 7
Designing Reliable Systems
Topics
  • Design services to meet requirements for availability, durability and scalability
  • Implement fault tolerant systems by avoiding single points of failure, correlated
    failures and cascading failures
  • Avoid overload failures the the circuit breaker and truncated exponential backoff
    design patterns
  • Design resilient data storage with lazy deletion
  • Analyze disaster scenarios and plan for disaster recovery using cost/risk
Activities

2 activities and 1 quiz

Module 8
Security
Topics
  • Design secure systems using best-practices like separation of concerns, principle of least privilege and regular audits
  •  Leverage Google Cloud Security Command Center to help identify vulnerabilities
  • Simplify cloud governance using or organization policies and folders
  • Secure people using IAM roles, Identity Aware Proxy and Identity Platform
  • Manage the access and authorization of resources by machines and processes using service accounts
  • Secure networks with with private IPs, firewalls and Google Cloud private access
  • Mitigate DDoS attacks by leveraging Cloud DNS and Cloud Armor
Activities

1 activity and 1 quiz

Module 9
Maintenance and Monitoring
Topics
  • Manage new service versions using rolling updates, blue-green deployments and canary releases
  • Forecast, monitor and optimize service cost using the Google Cloud pricing calculator, billing reports and by analyzing billing data
  • Observe if your services are meeting their SLOs using Stackdriver Monitoring and Dashboards
  • Use Uptime Checks to determine service availability
  • Respond to service outages using Stackdriver Alerts
Activities

1 activity, 1 lab and 1 quiz

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