🌥️ Google Cloud
Operate Google Cloud the way a real engineer does — projects & billing, IAM, compute & serverless, GKE, storage & databases, networking, and operations — with gcloud. Preps you for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam.
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Projects, hierarchy & billing
Master the org → folder → project hierarchy so billing, quotas, APIs, budgets, and org policies land exactly where you intend.
IAM & service accounts
Grant least privilege with predefined and custom roles, wire service accounts to workloads, and trade risky keys for short-lived credentials.
Compute & serverless
Pick the right compute for the job — Compute Engine VMs and Spot, autoscaling managed instance groups, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions.
Chapter review
Chapter 1 review — Projects, IAM & compute
Lab: Set up a project and run a workload · 10-question check
GKE: managed Kubernetes
Run Kubernetes without the toil: choose Autopilot or Standard, wire kubectl, scale node pools, and deploy from Artifact Registry to private clusters.
Storage & databases
Tune Cloud Storage classes and lifecycle rules, then match every workload to the right database — Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, or BigQuery.
Chapter review
Chapter 2 review — GKE & data
Lab: Deploy to GKE and store data · 10-question check
Networking
Design global VPCs with regional subnets, tag-based firewall rules, peering, Shared VPC, load balancing, Cloud DNS, and Cloud NAT for private egress.
Operations & monitoring
Catch problems before users do with Cloud Monitoring alerts, Cloud Logging sinks, the Ops Agent, custom dashboards, and audit logs.
Chapter review
Chapter 3 review — Network & operate
Lab: Wire the network and watch it · 10-question check
Final exam
Google Cloud — comprehensive capstone
Hands-on capstone + course-wide exam · scored to a role level