Google Cloud offers a variety of compute options to choose from. Ultimately, it depends on what kind of workload you will run and what type of control over the resources you or your team require. The following figure provides an overview of the Google Cloud compute options. The more we move to the right, the…
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Google Cloud’s best practices – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Best practices are a set of methods or techniques that have been generally accepted as superior to other alternatives. Best practices are called this because the outcome that is produced by using them is better than those produced by using other methods. A best practice may be a feature of accredited management standards such as…
Planning and Managing GCP Resources – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Welcome to the third chapter. In this chapter, we will focus on planning and managing GCP resources. Our focus lies mainly on planning Google Cloud resources, describing use cases for specific solutions, and learning what the benefits of the different application types are. We will dive into billing and budgets, which are essential in terms…
Config Connector – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
For those who are familiar with Kubernetes and would like to manage Google Cloud resources the Kubernetes way, Google Cloud offers the Config Connector tool. It is very similar to managing Kubernetes resources in the YAML format. Config Connector provides a collection of Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs) and controllers, which eventually reconcile your environment with your…
Management interfaces and command-line tools – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
There is no one right or wrong way to use Google Cloud services. Every customer or company has a different way of using Google Cloud and all of them are good. Developers use the cloud via API calls or code execution and security officers might simply use the Google Cloud console from the browser. In…
Security and identity services – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Security and identity services are another set of services from Google Cloud that are crucial to every customer. The most important ones are listed as follows: Google Cloud offers a comprehensive set of services with a core focus on security based on many years of experience and its customers’ requirements. AI and ML services We’ll…
An overview of the core services offered by Google Cloud – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Google Cloud offers more than 100 products to their customers. It is very hard to list all these products and it doesn’t bring much value to our Associate Cloud Engineer certification journey. Therefore, we have decided to list the core services from computing, storage, networking, security, and AI and ML. A full list of Google…
Choosing the right cloud solution – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
To have a better understanding of which cloud solution might suit your requirements, we have created a diagram with an overview of services and their corresponding customer and provider responsibilities: Figure 2.4 – An on-premises versus IaaS versus PaaS versus SaaS comparison Let’s dig into the four different types of resource consumption with varied usage…
Google Cloud today – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
At the time of writing in April 2023, Google Cloud is currently available in 37 regions, with a total of 112 separate zones and 176 network edge locations, and it operates in 200+ countries and territories. By the time you read this book, Google Cloud will have expanded into other regions. You can visit the…
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
This second chapter will focus on Google Cloud Platform fundamentals. We will describe all the core layers of Google Cloud, how they relate to each other, and their core components. We will find out the benefits of each Google Cloud layer and learn when to use them. We are going to cover the following main…