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This course features a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to help you explore and deploy solution elements —including infrastructure components like pods, and containers.

This is a one-day training.

Course overview

Target audience:

• This course is intended for the following participants:
• Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps/DevOps personnel
• Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with the Google Cloud

Objectives:

• Understand how software containers work
• Understand the architecture of Kubernetes
• Understand the architecture of Google Cloud
• Understand how pod networking works in Kubernetes Engine
• Create Kubernetes Engine clusters using the Google Cloud Console and gcloud/ kubectl commands

Prerequisites:

• To get the most of out of this course, participants should have:
• Completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or have equivalent experience
• Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments

Content

Module 1: Introducing Google Cloud

• Use the Google Cloud Console
• Use Cloud Shell
• Define Cloud Computing
• Identify Google Cloud compute services
• Understand regions and zones
• Understand the Cloud resource hierarchy
• Administer your Google Cloud resources

Module 2: Containers and Kubernetes in Google Cloud

• Create a container using Cloud Build.
• Store a container in Container Registry.
• Understand the relationship between Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Understand how to choose among Google Cloud Compute platforms.

Module 3: Kubernetes Architecture

• Understand the architecture of Kubernetes: pods, namespaces.
• Understand the control-plane components of Kubernetes.
• Create container images using Cloud Build.
• Store container images in Container Registry.
• Create a Kubernetes engine cluster.

Module 4: Introduction to Kubernetes Workloads

• The kubectl command.
• Introduction to deployments.
• Pod networking.
• Volumes overview.