GCP Cloud Engineer Learning Path Labs

Link: GCP Cloud Engineer Learning Path

WEEK 1

1. 03 Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

   → Introducing Google Cloud
   → Resources and Access in the cloud
   Getting Started with cloud marketplace

   → Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud

   Getting Started with VPC Networking and Google Compute Engine

   → Storage in the Cloud
   Getting Started with cloud Storage and Cloud SQL

   → Containers in the cloud

   → Applications in the Cloud
   Hello Cloud Run

   → Prompt Engineering

2. 11 Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine

   → Create a Virtual Machine or Compute Engine: Qwik Start - Windows

   → Getting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloud
   → Set Up Network and Applications Load Balancers
   → Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine: Challenge Lab

3. 01 A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

WEEK 2

Architecting with google compute engine

1. 04 Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation

   → Interacting with Google Cloud

   Working with the Google Cloud Console and Cloud Shell
   Infrastructure Preview

   → Virtual Networks

   VPC Networking
   Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT

   → Virtual Machines

   Creating Virtual Machines
   Working with Virtual Machines

2. 05 Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

   → IAM
   Exploring IAM
   → Storage and Database Services

   Cloud Storage
   Implementing Cloud SQL
   → Resource Management
   Examining Billing data with BigQuery
   → Resource Monitoring
   Resource Monitoring

3. 06 Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation

   → Interconnecting Networks

   Configuring Google Cloud HA VPN

   → Load balancing and Auto-scaling

   Configure an Application Load Balancer with Autoscaling
   Configure an Internal Network Load Balancer
   → Infrastructure Automation

   Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure using Terraform
   → Managed Services

WEEK 3

1. 07 Getting Started with GKE
   → Introduction to Google Cloud
   Accessing the Google Cloud Console and Cloud Shell
   → Introduction to Containers & Kubernetes
   Working with cloud build

   → Kubernetes Architecture
   Deploying GKE Autopilot Clusters
   → Kubernetes Operations
   Deploying GKE Autopilot Clusters from Cloud Shell

2. 12 Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
   → Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
   Cloud Storage: Quik Start - Cloud Console or Cloud Storage: Qwik Start - CLI/SDK
   Cloud IAM: Qwik Start
   Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
   Cloud Run Functions: Qwik Start - Console or Cloud Run Functions - Command Line
   Pub/Sub - Console or Pub/ Sub - Command Line or Pub/Sub - Python
   Set Up an APP Dev Environment on Google Cloud

WEEK 4

1. 08 Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud
   → Introduction to Google Cloud Observability
   → Monitoring Critical Systems
   Monitoring and Dashboarding Multiple Projects
   → Alerting Policies
   Alerting in Google Cloud
   Service Monitoring
   → Advanced Logging and Analysis
   Log Analytics on Google Cloud
   → Working with Audit Logs
   Cloud Audit Logs

2. 09 Observability in Google Cloud
   → Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability
   Monitoring a Compute Engine by Using Ops Agent
   → Monitoring Google Cloud Network
   Analyzing Network Traffic with VPC Flow Logs
   → Investigating Application Performance Issues
   View application latency with cloud Trace
   → Optimizing the Costs for Google Cloud Observability

WEEK 5

1. 10 Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud
   → Introduction to Terraform for Google Cloud
   → Terms and Concepts
   Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
   → Writing Infrastructure Code For Google Cloud
   Creating Resource Dependencies with Terraform
   → Organizing and Reusing Configuration with Terraform
   Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform
   → Introduction to Terraform State
   Creating a Remote Backend

2. 14 Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
   Terraform Fundamentals
   Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
   Interact with Terraform Modules
   Managing Terraform State
   Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud

Optional: 13 Develop your Google Cloud Network