GCP Training in India – System Operations
Workshop

Module 1: Google Cloud Platform Projects

• Learning Objectives
• Identify project resources and quotas
• Explain the purpose of Google Cloud Resource Manager and Identity and Access Management
• Lab: Google Cloud Platform Projects
• Learning Objectives
• Use the Google Developers Console to create and manage multiple projects
• Use service accounts and permissions to share view-level access between projects

Module 2: Instances

• Create an instance using the Google Developers Console
• Configure the Cloud SDK on the Compute Engine instance
• Initialize Cloud Source Repositories using Git

Module 3: Networks

• Learning Objectives
• Explain how to create and manage networks in projects
• Identify how to create and manage firewall rules, routes, and IP addresses
• Lab: Google Compute Engine Networks
• Learning Objectives
• Create a non-default network
• Compare default and non-default networks
• Create firewall-rules with and without tags
• Review network configuration in Google Cloud Monitoring

Module 4: Disks and Images

• Learning Objectives
• Explain how to create and manage persistent disks
• Identify how to create and manage disk images

Lab: Google Compute Engine Disks and Images

• Learning Objectives
• Create an instance and install the Java 7 JRE from OpenJDK
• Create a customized Compute Engine image
• Launch and test a Compute Engine instance based on your image

Module 5: Authorization

• Learning Objectives
• Explain the purposes of and use cases for Google Compute Engine service accounts
• Identify the types of service account scopes

Lab: Google Compute Engine Authorization

• Learning Objectives
• Set authorization scopes for a Compute Engine instance
• Reserve the external IP address for the new instance
• Install and configure Jenkins on a Compute Engine instance

Module 6: Snapshots

• Learning Objectives
• Identify the purpose of and use cases for disk snapshots
• Explain the process of creating a snapshot

Lab: Google Compute Engine Snapshots

• Learning Objectives
• Prepare and snapshot a Compute Engine instance
• Restore and test the snapshot to a different zone
• Snapshot a data disk without shutting down an instance

Module 7: Google Cloud Storage

• Learning Objectives
• Explain the purpose of and use cases for Google Cloud Storage
• Identify methods for accessing Google Cloud Storage buckets and objects
• Explain the security options available for Google Cloud Storage buckets and objects

Lab: Google Cloud Storage for Backups

• Learning Objectives
• Create and configure Nearline and DRA buckets
• Modify the lifecycle management policy for a bucket
• Copy data to a bucket using the Cloud SDK
• Review, modify, and test bucket ACLs
• Configure Jenkins to perform a backup to Cloud Storage
• Test and verify that the backups are working

Lab: Google Container Registry

• Learning Objectives
• Create a customized Jenkins build node instance
• Create an image using the instance's boot persistent disk
• Create a test build node instance based on the new image
• Test uploading images to Google Container Registry

Module 8: Instance Groups

• Learning Objectives
• Identify the purpose of and use cases for instance groups
• Explain the process of creating and using instance groups

Lab: Google Compute Engine Instance Groups

• Learning Objectives
• Create a Compute Engine instance group with instances
• Define Jenkins build tasks and run them
• Run the build tasks to create a guestbook image

Module 9: Google Cloud SQL

• Learning Objectives
• Understand how to create and administer Cloud SQL instances
• Explain how to access Cloud SQL instances from Compute Engine instances

Lab: Google Cloud SQL

• Learning Objectives
• Create a Cloud SQL instance using the Cloud SDK
• Create a Compute Engine instance from a custom image
• Deploy and test the Guestbook web application

Module 10: Metadata

• Learning Objectives
• Explain the purpose of metadata and identify the use cases for project and instance metadata
• Identify how to set and query metadata

Lab: Google Compute Engine Metadata

• Learning Objectives
• Add instance and project metadata
• Query instance and project metadata using the Cloud SDK
• Query metadata from inside a Compute Engine instance

Module 11: Startup and Shutdown Scripts

Identify the purpose of and use cases for startup and shutdown scripts

Lab: Google Compute Engine Startup Scripts

• Learning Objectives
• Create an instance with a startup script in metadata
• Create an instance with a startup script from Cloud Storage
• Create an instance with a shutdown script and install the Cloud Logging agent

Lab: Google API Client Library

• Learning Objectives
• Use the API Explorer to query an API request
• Run sample code that uses the Google API Client Library
• Test and build a container that uses the Cloud SQL APIs
• Create a new Compute Engine image

Module 12: Autoscaling

• Learning Objectives
• Explain the use cases for autoscaling and how autoscaling functions
• Identify the purpose of autoscaling policies

Lab: Google Compute Engine Autoscaler

• Learning Objectives
• Create an instance template and managed instance group
• Configure the managed instance group for autoscaling
• Generate an artificial load to trigger scaling of your cluster

Module 13: Load Balancing

• Learning Objectives
• Explain the differences between network load balancing and HTTP load balancing
• Identify the purpose of and use cases for cross-region and content-based load balancing

Lab: HTTP/HTTPS Load Balancing

• Learning Objectives
• Create multiple autoscaled managed instance groups
• Configure fault-tolerant HTTP load balancing
• Test health checks for use with HTTP load balancing

Lab: Google Cloud Deployment Manager

• Learning Objectives
• Create a Guestbook deployment using a plain YAML format
• Manage a Guestbook deployment using a Jinja template
• Create a Guestbook deployment using Python templates

Lab: Deleting Cloud Platform Projects and Resources

• Learning Objectives
• Delete Google Cloud Platform resources
• Test dependencies between resources
• Delete Google Cloud Platform projects