Detailed Course Outline
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