Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine

Workloads: Deployments and Jobs

• Define, configure, inspect, manage, and update Deployments.

• Define what Jobs and CronJobs are in GKE, and explore relevant use cases. Create and run Jobs.

• Explain how to scale clusters manually and automatically.

• Configure node and pod affinity.

Google Kubernetes Engine Networking

• Explore Kubernetes networking, including Pod and cluster networking.

• Create services to expose to applications running within Pods.

• Configure load balancers to expose services to external clients.

• Explore containernative load balancing in GKE.

• Configure Google Kubernetes Engine networking.

Persistent Data and Storage

• Define and work with Kubernetes storage abstractions.

• Run and maintain sets of pods using StatefulSets.

• Use ConfigMaps to decouple configuration from Pods.

• Manage and store sensitive access and authentication data.

• Configure persistent storage for Google Kubernetes Engine.

Access Control and Security in Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine

• Authentication and authorization

• Kubernetes role-based access control

• Workload Identity

• Kubernetes control plane security

• Pod security

Google Kubernetes Engine Logging and Monitoring

• Identify the tools included in the Google Cloud Observability .

• Configure the Google Cloud operations suite to monitor and manage the availability and performance.

• Inspect logs using the kubectl command.

• Inspect Kubernetes logs using Google Cloud Observability.

• Configure GKE-native Monitoring and Logging.

Using Google Cloud Managed Storage Services with Google Kubernetes Engine

• Contrast managed storage services with self-managed storage.

• Identify use cases for Cloud Storage for Kubernetes applications.

• Compare the range of Google Cloud managed database services.

• Explore Cloud SQL Auth Proxy and how it connects to Cloud SQL from within GKE.

• Use Cloud SQL with Google Kubernetes Engine.

Using CI/CD with Google Kubernetes Engine

• Define continuous integration and continuous delivery and identify why it is important.

• Examine CI/CD pipelines and how they can optimize app releases.

• Explore first-party and third-party CI/CD tools supported by Google Cloud.

• Explore Google’s best practices for a GKE CI/CD pipeline.

• Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps/DevOps personnel.

• Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with Google Cloud.

• Prerequisite: Completed “Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine” or have equivalent experience.