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Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation (edX)

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Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation (edX)

Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers. Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine. This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud.

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Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.
This course is part of the following programs:

What you'll learn

  • Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud.
  • Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances.
  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services.
  • Leverage managed services in Google Cloud.

Prerequisites:
To get the most out of this course, participants should: Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure 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.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction

In this module we introduce the Architecting with Google Compute Engine course series. This course series is defined for cloud solution architects, DevOps engineers, and anyone who's interested in using Google Cloud, to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with a focus on Compute Engine.

  1. Interconnecting Networks

Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud

  1. Load Balancing and Autoscaling

Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances

  1. Infrastructure Automation

Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services

  1. Managed Services

Leverage managed services in Google Cloud

  1. Course Resources

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