Course subjects
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
Recognise 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 optimise 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 organisational 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 optimise 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
