The Google Cloud Platform offers up a very large number of services for every important aspect of public cloud computing. In this course, Leveraging Architectural Design Patterns on the Google Cloud, you will learn how the different core design choices in storage, compute, and networking can be made to assemble complex architectures for specific use cases. First, you will learn specific types of reusable design patterns built using GCP components. These include the use of managed instance groups for infrastructure, cloud functions for event-driven compute, lambda and kappa architectures for big data processing, and BigQuery ML and Cloud ML Engine for machine learning applications. Next, you will explore how to pull together Jenkins, Cloud Source Repositories, and the Google Container Registry to orchestrate a CI/CD pipeline. This involves first creating a cluster and installing Helm (which is the Kubernetes package manager), then deploying your app via a canary release, committing the code into the Cloud Source Repos and finally using Jenkins (which is an automated build server) to push the master branch into production. Finally, you will understand and construct various different networking patterns on the GCP. These include the use of a bastion host, or jump host to restrict the external touch-points within a VPC network. By the end of this course, you will be very comfortable identifying the important decisions that a Cloud Architect depends upon, and will have the skills and knowledge to use complex architectural design patterns that have been put to proven use by others.
Author Name: Janani Ravi
Author Description:
Janani has a Masters degree from Stanford and worked for 7+ years at Google. She was one of the original engineers on Google Docs and holds 4 patents for its real-time collaborative editing framework. After spending years working in tech in the Bay Area, New York, and Singapore at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Flipkart, Janani finally decided to combine her love for technology with her passion for teaching. She is now the co-founder of Loonycorn, a content studio focused on providing … more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  2mins
• Understanding Classic Architectural Patterns on the GCP
  43mins
• Leveraging Container-based Pipelines on the GCP
  63mins
• Designing Network Architectures on the GCP
  40mins