Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers

Software developed and deployed in the cloud is the new normal for the tech industry. Discover how designing, building, deploying, and maintaining applications is done in GCP.

Introduction

• Kicking off your GCP development
• What you should know
• Getting your GCP set up: Billing and trials

1. Getting Started with Google Cloud

• Overview of the Google Cloud Console
• Using the Cloud Shell
• Installing and configuring the Google Cloud SDK
• Using the Google Cloud SDK

2. Hello, World Wide Web! with Google App Engine

• App engine Hello World
• Setting up a custom domain for App Engine
• Securing custom domains on App Engine with HTTPS

3. Understanding Google App Engine Components

• Overview of App Engine components
• Using component-specific URLs
• Traffic splitting and rolling back deployments

4. Creating and Connecting to Cloud SQL Database

• Creating a MySQL Database in Cloud SQL
• Creating a service account for App Engine via IAM
• Connecting to and querying your database from App Engine
• Cloud SQL and App Engine best practices: Using Cloud SQL Proxy

5. Saving and Serving Files through Google Cloud Storage

• Different types of GCS buckets and creating one for your project
• Saving files and serving them
• Securing files with bucket and object-level permissions
• Serving secured files using signed URLs
• Object lifecycle management

6. Running Background Tasks with Google Cloud Tasks

• Overview of Cloud Tasks
• Emailing subscribers using the fan-out pattern

7. Cron Jobs with Google Cloud Scheduler

• Overview of Cloud Scheduler
• Deploying daily subscriber emails

8. Logging, Debugging, and Optimizing Your App with Google Operations Tools

• Writing to Cloud Logging
• Browsing and filtering logs using Cloud Logging
• Debugging live traffic using Cloud Debug
• Finding unoptimized areas of your app with Cloud Trace

Conclusion

• Next steps with GCP