🌐Cloud Computing

Google Cloud Platform Engineer: full course guide

Building and operating on GCP: projects and IAM, compute, storage, BigQuery, Kubernetes and data pipelines, with runnable examples throughout.

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01GCP Fundamentals

  • GCP Global Infrastructure
  • IAM & Resource Hierarchy
  • gcloud CLI
  • Billing & Quotas
  • Shared Responsibility on GCP

02Compute

  • Compute Engine VMs
  • Instance Groups & Autoscaling
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Cloud Run
  • Cloud Functions

03Storage & Databases

  • Cloud Storage (GCS)
  • Persistent Disks
  • Cloud SQL & Spanner
  • Firestore & Bigtable
  • Memorystore

04Networking

  • VPC & Shared VPC
  • Cloud Load Balancing
  • Cloud CDN & Armor
  • Cloud DNS
  • Interconnect & VPN

05Data & Analytics

  • BigQuery Architecture
  • Pub/Sub Messaging
  • Dataflow Pipelines
  • Looker Studio
  • Data Catalog

06DevOps & Operations

  • Cloud Build & Artifact Registry
  • Cloud Deploy
  • Cloud Monitoring & Logging
  • Terraform on GCP
  • SRE Practices

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