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Google Cloud skill assessment

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Environment Setup

Get the gcloud CLI, project structure, and local credentials right before writing any infrastructure — misconfigured environments cause the most confusing early failures. Cloud Shell gives you a zero-install fallback when local setup goes sideways.

gcloud CLI installation and initializationProjects, billing accounts, and API enablementApplication Default Credentials and service account keysCloud Shell for a preconfigured browser environmentNamed gcloud configurations for multi-project work

Billing

Cloud spend can spiral fast without guardrails, so know how to forecast, alert on, and discount costs before they surprise you. Export and commitment tools turn an opaque monthly bill into an actionable signal.

Budgets and budget alert thresholdsBilling export to BigQuery for cost analysisCommitted use discounts and sustained use discountsCost breakdown reports and Recommender cost insightsBilling account and project cost allocation

Compute

Understand GCP compute options from VMs to serverless so you can match workloads to the right platform. Compute selection drives cost and operational effort.

Compute Engine instances and machine typesManaged Instance Groups and autoscalingCloud Run and serverless containersGKE for Kubernetes workloadsCloud Functions and event triggers

Storage & Databases

Choosing the right storage or database service shapes both cost and consistency guarantees, so know the tradeoffs across object storage, block/file storage, and managed databases. Most production systems mix several of these together.

Cloud Storage buckets, storage classes, and lifecycle rulesPersistent Disks and Filestore for block/file storageCloud SQL and AlloyDB for relational workloadsFirestore and Bigtable for NoSQL at scaleSpanner and BigQuery for global consistency and analytics

Networking

Master VPC design and connectivity on GCP so resources are secure and routable. Networking underlies every GCP architecture.

VPC networks and subnetsFirewall rules and routesCloud Load Balancing typesCloud DNS and Cloud NATVPC peering and Private Google Access

GKE & Kubernetes

GKE abstracts away much of raw Kubernetes operations, but you still need to choose the right cluster mode and identity model to run it securely and cost-effectively. These choices are hard to unwind once a cluster is live.

Autopilot vs Standard cluster modesNode pools, machine types, and cluster autoscalingWorkload Identity for pod-to-GCP-API authenticationPrivate clusters and VPC-native networkingRelease channels and cluster upgrade strategy

Operations & Monitoring

Production reliability depends on seeing problems before users do, so instrument metrics, logs, and traces from day one. Alerting and SLOs turn raw telemetry into an actionable on-call signal.

Cloud Monitoring dashboards and custom metricsCloud Logging and log-based metricsAlerting policies and SLOsCloud Trace for distributed latency analysisError Reporting for automatic exception grouping

IAM & Security

Learn GCP IAM and the resource hierarchy to enforce least privilege. Identity and policy structure are the core of cloud security on GCP.

Resource hierarchy: org, folder, projectIAM roles: basic, predefined, customService accounts and key managementPolicy inheritance and conditionsCloud KMS and Secret Manager

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