Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process (AGCP-DP)

 

Course Overview

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.

Who should attend

  • 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 Google Cloud

Certifications

Prerequisites

  • 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

Course Objectives

  • 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
  • Discuss Google Cloud network architectures, including hybrid architectures
  • 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 Cloud Monitoring

Outline: Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process (AGCP-DP)

Module 1: Defining the Service
  • Describe users in terms of roles and personas
  • Evaluate KPIs using SLOs and SLIs
  • Determine the quality of application requirements using SMART criteria
Module 2: Microservice Design and Architecture
  • Decompose monolithic applications into microservices
  • Recognize appropriate microservice boundaries
  • Design consistent, standard RESTful service APIs
  • Identify the 12-factor best practices for implementing services
Module 3: DevOps Automation
  • Discuss the automation of service deployment using CI/CD pipelines
  • Explain how to leverage Cloud Source Repositories for source and version control
  • Automate builds with Cloud Build and build triggers
  • Manage container images with Container Registry
Module 4: Choosing Storage Solutions
  • Identify the use cases for Spanner
  • Identify the use cases for Cloud SQL
  • Identify the use cases for Firestore
  • Identify the use cases for Memorystore
Module 5: Google Cloud and Hybrid Network Architecture
  • Discuss the design of VPC networks to optimize for cost, security, and performance
  • Describe how global and regional load balancers provide access to services
  • Connect networks using peering and VPNs
  • Define hybrid networks between Google Cloud and on-premises data centers using Cloud Interconnect
Module 6: Deploying Applications to Google Cloud
  • 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)
Module 7: Designing Reliable Systems
  • Discuss the design of services to meet requirements for availability, durability, and scalability
  • Identify the failures to be avoided to implement a fault-tolerant system
Module 8: Security
  • Identify the best practices for designing secure systems
  • Discuss the use of organizational policies and folders to simplify cloud governance
  • Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged for access management
  • Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged to mitigate DDoS attacks
Module 9: Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Discuss different ways to manage new service versions
  • Describe how to forecast, monitor, and optimize service costs
  • Observe if your services are meeting their SLOs using Cloud Monitoring and Dashboards
  • Use Uptime Checks to determine service availability
  • Respond to service outages using Cloud Monitoring Alerts

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
2 days

Price
  • US$ 1,495
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Duration
2 days

Price
  • United States: US$ 1,495

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