Reliable Cloud Infrastructure - Design and Process

Through a combination of presentations, challenges, and hands-on labs, participants learn to design GCP deployments that are highly reliable and secure; and how to operate GCP deployments in a highly available and cost-effective manner.

This online course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud Platform, using proven design patterns and principles derived from Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Cloud Platform courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in the other courses. Through a combination of presentations, challenges, and hands-on labs, participants learn to design GCP deployments that are highly reliable and secure; and how to operate GCP deployments in a highly available and cost-effective manner. This course teaches participants the following skills: design for high availability, scalability, and maintainability, assess tradeoffs and make sound choices among Google Cloud Platform products, integrate on-premises and cloud resources, identify ways to optimize resources and minimize cost, implement processes that minimize downtime, such as monitoring and alarming, unit and integration testing, production resilience testing, and incident post-mortem analysis, implement policies that minimize security risks, such as auditing, separation of duties and least privilege, and implement technologies and processes that assure business continuity in the event of a disaster.