Google Cloud Fundamentals for Azure Professionals: Core Infrastructure
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Course Summary
This course, GCP Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure, is designed to help IT professionals, business decision-makers, and developers understand the basics of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The course covers key features and services of GCP, including computing, storage, and networking.Key Learning Points
- Learn the basics of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Understand key features and services of GCP, including computing, storage, and networking
- Get hands-on experience with GCP through interactive labs and exercises
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- USA: $98,000
- India: ₹1,200,000
- Spain: €36,000
- USA: $98,000
- India: ₹1,200,000
- Spain: €36,000
- USA: $126,000
- India: ₹1,700,000
- Spain: €48,000
- USA: $98,000
- India: ₹1,200,000
- Spain: €36,000
- USA: $126,000
- India: ₹1,700,000
- Spain: €48,000
- USA: $81,000
- India: ₹900,000
- Spain: €30,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the basics of Google Cloud Platform
- Gain hands-on experience with GCP through interactive labs and exercises
- Be able to evaluate GCP for use in your organization
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Familiarity with computing concepts
- Access to a computer and the internet
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Online
- Self-paced
Similar Courses
- AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Related Education Paths
- Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
Notable People in This Field
- Amit Zavery
Related Books
Description
This course introduces you to important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You learn about, and compare, many of the computing and storage services available in Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. You learn about important resource and policy management tools, such as the Google Cloud Resource Manager hierarchy and Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Hands-on labs give you foundational skills for working with GCP.
Outline
- Introducing Google Cloud Platform
- Welcome to Google Cloud Fundamentals for Azure Professionals
- What is cloud computing?
- How did we get here?
- Every company is a data company
- GCP computing architectures
- The Google network
- GCP regions and zones
- Environmental responsibility
- How Google Cloud differs from Azure: Regions and Zones
- Google offers customer-friendly pricing
- Open APIs
- Multi-layered security approach
- Why choose Google Cloud Platform
- Budgets and Billing
- Welcome to Google Cloud Fundamentals for Azure Professionals: Core Infrastructure
- How to download course resources
- Cloud Computing Services
- GCP Regions and Zones
- Introducing Google Cloud Platform
- Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform
- Module introduction
- The Google Cloud Platform resource hierarchy
- Comparison to Azure : resource hierarchy
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- IAM roles
- Comparison to Azure Active Directory
- Interacting with Google Cloud Platform
- Cloud Marketplace
- Getting start with Cloud Marketplace
- Getting Started with Google Cloud and Qwiklabs
- Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform
- Virtual Machines in the Cloud
- Module Introduction
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network
- How Google VPC differs from Azure VNet
- Compute Engine
- Comparing Google Compute Engine and Azure VM
- Important VPC capabilities
- How typical approaches to load-balancing in Google Cloud differ from those in Azure
- Demonstration: Getting Started with Compute Engine
- Google Compute Engine and Networking
- Storage in the Cloud
- Introduction to Google Cloud Platform Storage Options
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Storage interactions
- Comparing Google Cloud Storage with Azure Blob Storage.
- Google Cloud Bigtable
- Google Cloud SQL and Google Cloud Spanner
- Google Cloud Datastore
- Comparing Google Cloud's managed database services with Azure SQL
- Comparing Storage Options
- Demonstration: Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL
- Google Cloud Platform Storage Options
- Containers in the Cloud
- Containers, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes Engine
- Introduction to Kubernetes and GKE
- Introduction to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Computing (Anthos)
- How GKE differs from Azure Kubernetes Service
- Lab Introduction: Getting Started with Kubernetes Engine
- Demonstration: Getting Started with Kubernetes Engine
- Containers, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes Engine
- Applications in the Cloud
- Module introduction; introduction to App Engine
- Google App Engine Standard Environment
- Google App Engine Flexible Environment
- Comparing App Engine to Azure App Service
- Google Cloud Endpoints and Apigee Edge
- App Engine
- Applications in the Cloud
- Developing, Deploying and Monitoring in the Cloud
- Development in the cloud
- Deployment: Infrastructure as code
- How Cloud Deployment Manager differs from Azure Resource Manager
- Monitoring: Proactive instrumentation
- How Stackdriver differs from Azure application Insights
- Demonstration: Getting Started with Deployment Manager and Stackdriver
- Developing, Deploying, and Monitoring in the Cloud
- Big Data and Machine Learning in the Cloud
- Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning
- Google Cloud Big Data Platform
- Cloud Dataflow
- BigQuery
- How BigQuery differs from Azure Data Lake Analytics
- Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Datalab
- How Cloud Pub/Sub differs from Azure Events Hub
- Google Cloud Machine Learning Platform
- Machine learning APIs
- How GCP’s machine-learning APIs differ from Azure's
- Demonstration: Getting Started with BigQuery
- Big Data and Machine Learning
- Summary and Review
- Review
- The Process of migrating from Azure to Google Cloud
- Next steps
- Summary and Review
Summary of User Reviews
Learn about Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure with this course. Users have praised this course for its comprehensive coverage and practical approach. Overall, this course has received positive reviews from users.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
comprehensive coveragePros from User Reviews
- Practical and hands-on approach
- Great introduction to GCP and Azure
- Well-structured and easy to follow
- Good balance of theory and practice
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the pace too slow
- Lack of depth in some areas
- Not suitable for advanced users
- No certification offered