Google Cloud Platform Essential Training for Administrators

Is Google Cloud Platform (GCP) right for your business? Explore the offerings of this leading cloud services provider. In this course, designed uniquely for IT professionals—architects, network admins, and technology stakeholders—join instructor Lynn Langit to learn how to evaluate GCP for your organization as well as those tasked with getting apps up and running on the Google cloud.

Discover how to set up an account and use the console, APIs, Cloud Shell, and other GCP tools. Then explore the core services—serverless computing, data storage, and machine learning—and the developer tools that Google provides for building your own custom solutions. Along the way, test out your new skills in real-world scenarios using GCP to manage virtual machines, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, functions, relational data stores, NoSQL data, and more. Lynn also shares practical tips for optimizing budgets and planning deployments, and reviews examples of common architectural patterns.