GCP DevOps Essentials
Everything you need to be productive on Google Cloud — before touching GKE.
Google built GCP to monetize the planetary-scale infrastructure that powers Search and YouTube. This track covers the core GCP services every DevOps engineer needs: identity, networking, compute, containers, serverless, secrets, observability, and CI/CD.
Modules
Section titled “Modules”| # | Module | Time | What You’ll Learn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IAM & Resource Hierarchy | 2h | Org/Folder/Project, Service Accounts, Workload Identity |
| 2 | VPC Networking | 3h | Global VPCs, Firewall Rules, Shared VPCs |
| 3 | Compute Engine | 2.5h | Machine families, MIGs, Global Load Balancing |
| 4 | Cloud Storage (GCS) | 1.5h | Storage classes, lifecycle, signed URLs |
| 5 | Cloud DNS | 1.5h | Public/Private zones, forwarding, peering |
| 6 | Artifact Registry | 1h | Container images, scanning, upstream caching |
| 7 | Cloud Run | 2.5h | Serverless containers, traffic splitting |
| 8 | Cloud Functions | 2h | Gen 2, Eventarc, event-driven patterns |
| 9 | Secret Manager | 1.5h | Secrets, versions, IAM integration |
| 10 | Cloud Operations | 2.5h | Logging, Monitoring, PromQL/MQL, alerting |
| 11 | Cloud Build & CI/CD | 2h | cloudbuild.yaml, triggers, Cloud Deploy |
| 12 | GCP Architectural Patterns | 1.5h | Landing zones, IAP, Anthos overview |
Total time: ~23.5 hours
Prerequisites
Section titled “Prerequisites”- Cloud Native 101
- Hyperscaler Rosetta Stone — recommended