Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer 2024 E-Learning

Learn the skills required to become a Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineers. In this journey, you will learn how to Bootstrap a Google Cloud organization for DevOps, Apply site reliability engineering practices to a service, Optimize service performance, Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for a service, and Implement service monitoring strategies while you prepare for the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification exam.

Course content

This e-learning collection contains 20 courses (23 hours +).

1. Bootstrapping a Google Cloud organization for DevOps

In this track, the focus will be on the following: • Designing the overall resource hierarchy for an organization• Managing infrastructure as code• Designing a CI/CD architecture stack in Google Cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments• Managing multiple environments (e.g., staging, production).
Courses:

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Introduction to DevOps Fundamentals

Course: 1 Hour, 22 Minutes

• Course Overview
• DevOps Introduction
• Principles of DevOps
• DevOps Life Cycle
• Pillars of DevOps
• Benefits of DevOps
• DevOps, Containers, and Microservices
• DevOps and Agile
• Integration of DevOps Practices with Cloud Architecture
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Fundamentals

Course: 1 Hour, 14 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Components of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Process of Setting up a GCP Account
• Navigate the GCP console
• GCP’s Core Services for DevOps
• Using Tools and Resources in GCP for DevOps
• Role of Automation in DevOps within GCP
• Benefits of Using GCP for DevOps Projects
• GCP Compared to Other Cloud Platforms for DevOps
• Configuring GCP for a DevOps Workflow
• Common DevOps Scenarios
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Designing the Resource Hierarchy

Course: 1 Hour, 4 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Projects and Folders in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Principles for Project Organization
• GCP Components
• Strategies for Logically Grouping Resources
• Setting up Shared Networking
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)1
• Service Accounts in GCP
• Creating and Managing Service Accounts
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on GCP

Course: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Principles of Immutable Architecture
• Relationship between IaC and Immutable Architecture
• Key Infrastructure as Code Tools
• Infrastructure Changes Using Cloud Foundation Toolkit
• Compare Terraform, Helm, and Config Connector Solutions for GCP IaC
• Using Terraform for Deploying GCP Resources
• Best Practices for Infrastructure as Code
• Case Study for Implementing IaC in a GCP Project
• Course Summary

2. Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service

In this track, the focus will be on the following: • Designing and managing CI/CD pipelines• Implementing CI/CD pipelines• Managing CI/CD configuration and secrets• Securing the CI/CD deployment pipeline.
Courses:

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: CI/CD Architecture Stack in Google Cloud

Course: 2 Hours, 1 Minute

• Course Overview
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Components of a CI/CD Architecture Stack on the GCP
• Setting up Continuous Integration with Cloud Build
• Benefits of Using Google Cloud Deploy for Continuous Delivery
• Third-party CI/CD Tooling
• Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline
• Strategies for Managing Multiple Environments on the GCP
• Creating Dynamic Environments for Feature Branches
• Configuration Management on the GCP
• Integrating Third-party Tools with GCP CI/CD Pipelines
• Security Practices for CI/CD Pipelines in Cloud Environments
• Case Study: A Multicloud CI/CD Setup
• Troubleshooting Common CI/CD Pipeline Issues on the GCP
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Implementing CI/CD Pipelines for a Service

Course: 1 Hour, 21 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Designing CI/CD Pipelines for Hybrid and Multicloud Environments
• The Role of Artifact Registry in Artifact Management
• Deployment Strategies for Software in Cloud Environments
• Triggers for CI/CD Pipelines on the GCP
• Testing a New Application Version within the CI/CD Pipeline
• Configuring Deployment Processes
• CI/CD for Serverless Applications on the GCP
• Auditing and Tracking Deployments
• Rollback Strategies for CI/CD Pipelines
• Troubleshooting Deployment Issues on the GCP
• Management of CI/CD Configuration and Secrets
• Securing the CI/CD Deployment Pipeline
• Course Summary

3. Applying site reliability engineering practices to a service

In this track, the focus will be on the following: Balancing change, velocity, and reliability of the service• Managing service lifecycle• Ensuring healthy communication and collaboration for operations Mitigating incident impact on users• Conducting a postmortem.
Course:

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Applying SRE Practices to a Service

Course: 1 Hour, 41 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Overview
• Change, Velocity, and Reliability
• Service-level Indicators (SLIs) for Cloud Services
• Service-level Objectives (SLOs) and Service-level Agreements (SLAs)
• Strategies for Managing Service Life Cycle
• Capacity Planning and Autoscaling in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Healthy Communication and Collaboration within DevOps Teams
• Mitigating Incident Impact on Users and Services
• Postmortem Analysis
• Toil Automation and Service Reliability
• Strategies for Preventing Burnout among Operations Teams
• SRE Practices Case Study
• Role of Feedback Loops in Continuous Service Improvement
• Course Summary

4. Implementing service monitoring strategies

In this track, the focus will be on the following: • Managing logs• Managing metrics with Cloud Monitoring• Managing dashboards and alerts in Cloud Monitoring• Managing Cloud Logging platform• Implementing logging and monitoring access controls.
Course:

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Implementing Service Monitoring Strategies

Course: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud Logging Agent Configuration
• Collecting Logs
• Custom Metrics from Logs
• Setting Up and Customizing a Monitoring Dashboard in GCP
• Alerting Policies Based on SLOs and SLIs
• Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus vs. Other Monitoring Solutions
• Logging and Monitoring Access Control Implementation
• Log Optimization Strategies
• Benefits of Enabling Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs
• Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging Case Study
• Applying Advanced Log Filters
• Course Summary

5. Optimizing the service performance

In this track, the focus will be on the following: • Identifying service performance issues• Implementing debugging tools in Google Cloud• Optimizing resource utilization and costs.
Courses:

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Optimizing Service Performance

Course: 1 Hour, 28 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Diagnosing Service Performance Issues
• Service Mesh Telemetry
• Troubleshooting Compute Resource Issues
• Addressing Deploy Time and Runtime Issues with Applications
• Troubleshoot Network Issues
• Using Cloud Trace for Performance Monitoring
• Preemptible VMs with Committed Use Discounts
• Cloud Profiler for Identifying Performance Bottlenecks
• The Role of Cloud Monitoring in Tracking App Performance
• Case Studies: Optimizing Resource Utilization and Reducing Costs
• Error Reporting
• Effective Use of Network Tiers
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: IaC Practices & Immutable Architectures

Course: 1 Hour, 24 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Immutable Architecture
• The Cloud Foundation Toolkit
• Benefits of Managing IaC Using Terraform in GCP
• Deploying Infrastructure Changes
• Config Connector vs. GCP-specific IaC Tools
• Helm Integration for Kubernetes App Managements
• Create and Manage Dynamic Environments Using Terraform
• Transition to an Immutable Architecture in GCP
• The Challenges of Immutable Architectures
• Case Study: Streamlining Infrastructure with IaC
• Managing Infrastructure Configurations Using Version Control Systems
• Security Considerations in IaC Practices
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: CI/CD Techniques & Security Practices

Course: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Advanced techniques for managing CI/CD pipelines
• GCP Integration with Third-party CI/CD Tools
• Security challenges and mitigation with CI/CD tooling
• Using Google Cloud Deploy for Complex Deployment Scenarios
• CI/CD pipeline strategies for multicloud and hybrid environments
• Binary Authorization's Role in Securing Software Supply Chains
• Secret Management Practices in CI/CD Pipelines
• Applying Vulnerability Analysis Tools in the CI/CD Process
• Identifying IAM Policy Configurations for CI/CD Pipeline
• Case study of securing a CI/CD pipeline
• Setting Up and Managing CI/CD Pipelines for Serverless Applications
• Best practices for auditing and tracking deployments in GCP
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Foundations of SRE

Course: 56 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Principles and Key Components of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Error Budgets
• SLOs and Their Relation to SLAs
• Strategies for Automating Toil and Repetitive Tasks
• Opportunity Cost in Risk and Reliability Decisions
• The Impact of Capacity Planning on Service Reliability
• Autoscaling Resources Using Google Cloud Tools
• Service-level Indicators (SLIs)
• The Role of Feedback Loops
• Models for Managing the Service Lifecycle
• A Culture of Learning and Blamelessness
• Case Studies on SRE Implementation
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Advanced Monitoring & Incident Response

Course: 1 Hour, 7 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Advanced Monitoring Solutions Using Cloud Monitoring
• Alerting Policies
• Cloud Logging
• Configuration and Benefits of VPC Flow Logs
• Implementation of Log-based Metrics
• Methods for Managing and Sharing Dashboards
• Integration of Cloud Monitoring with Third-party Monitoring Tools
• Respond and Mitigate Incidents
• Postmortems
• Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus
• Access Controls
• Steps for Managing Incident Communication
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Performance Tuning & Cost Optimization

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Cloud Service Performance Using Google Cloud’s Operations Suite
• Application of Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler
• Preemptible VMs and Committed-use Discounts
• Process for Configuring and Using Cloud Monitoring
• Strategies for Sizing and Scaling Resources
• Implementation of Network Tiers
• Application of Cloud Functions and GKE
• Considerations for Selecting and Managing Compute Resources
• Case Studies on Cost Optimization Strategies
• Strategies for Monitoring and Managing Cloud Expenditures
• Sustained-use Discounts
• The Role of Performance Testing and Optimization in Maintaining Service Levels
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Managing & Securing Service Accounts

Course: 45 Minutes

• Course Overview
• The Role and Importance of Service Accounts
• Process of Creating and Managing Service Accounts
• Best Practices for Assigning IAM Roles
• Steps for Securely Managing Keys
• Service Account and Access Permissions Auditing
• Process of Rotating and Managing Service Account Keys
• Strategies for Minimizing the Use of Service Accounts
• Case Studies on the Use of Service Accounts
• Service Account Misconfigurations Risks and Mitigations
• Service Accounts Versus User Accounts
• Integration of Service Accounts with Cloud Build
• Considerations for Service Account Usage in Multi and Hybrid Clouds
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Implementing Network Security & Policies

Course: 1 Hour, 4 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
• Firewall Rules and Policy Configuration
• Use of Cloud Armor
• Setting Up VPC Service Controls
• Implementing Private Connectivity Options for Communication
• The Importance of Auditing Network Configurations and Firewall Rules
• Strategies for Managing Network Traffic with Cloud Load Balancing
• Shared VPCs vs. Dedicated VPCs
• Case Studies on Resolving Common Network Security Challenges
• Applying IAM Policies for Access Control
• Best Practices for Logging and Monitoring Network Activity
• Configuring and Using VPC Flow Logs
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Automating Cloud Security & Compliance

Course: 54 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Continuous Compliance Monitoring in Secure and Compliant Cloud Environments
• Tools and Services for Security and Compliance Automation
• The Role of Security Command Center
• Web Security Scanner (WSS)
• The Integration of Compliance Reporting Tools and Services
• Custom Security Policies and Checks Using Cloud Functions
• Automating Compliance and Security Assessments Using Policy Intelligence
• Automated Remediation Actions
• Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)
• Strategies for Integrating Third-party Security and Compliance Tools
• Case Study on Automated Security Scans and Compliance Checks
• Setting Up Automated Alerts and Notifications
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Application Deployment Strategies

Course: 46 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Application Deployment Models
• Considerations for Choosing a Deployment Model
• Key GCP Services for Application Deployment
• Compare Serverless Deployment Options
• Blue/Green Deployments
• Canary Deployments
• Traffic Splitting Features in Load Balancing
• Importance of Rollback Strategies
• Feature Flags and A/B Testing
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Data Replication and Synchronization Considerations
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Advanced Application Deployment Strategies

Course: 39 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Multi-regional Deployments
• Global Load Balancing and Traffic Management Strategies
• Pipeline Deployment Automation
• Integrating Feature Flags with GCP Services
• Microservices Deployment with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Case Studies on Successful Application Deployment Strategies
• Setting Up and Managing Multi-regional Deployments
• Best Practices for Monitoring Deployment Strategy Impact
• Course Summary

Google Professional DevOps Engineer: Architecture Optimization & Best Practices

Course: 48 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Key Principles for Optimizing Cloud Architecture
• Managed Services and Serverless Computing
• Strategies for Optimizing Data Storage and Database Services
• Application of GCP's Network Products and Features
• Using Google Cloud's Operations Suite
• Cost Optimization and Performance with Resources
• Architectural Patterns and Their Trade-offs
• Case Study of Transformation of a Traditional Infrastructure
• Conducting a Comprehensive Cloud Architecture Review
• Continuous Improvement Cycle for Cloud Architectures
• Course Summary