Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers

Introduction

• Kicking off your GCP development
• What you should know
• Getting your GCP set up: Billing and trials

1. Getting Started with Google Cloud

• Overview of the Google Cloud Console
• Using the Cloud Shell
• Installing and configuring the Google Cloud SDK
• Using the Google Cloud SDK

2. Hello, World Wide Web! with Google App Engine

• App engine Hello World
• Setting up a custom domain for App Engine
• Securing custom domains on App Engine with HTTPS

3. Understanding Google App Engine Components

• Overview of App Engine components
• Using component-specific URLs
• Traffic splitting and rolling back deployments

4. Creating and Connecting to Cloud SQL Database

• Creating a MySQL Database in Cloud SQL
• Creating a service account for App Engine via IAM
• Connecting to and querying your database from App Engine
• Cloud SQL and App Engine best practices: Using Cloud SQL Proxy

5. Saving and Serving Files through Google Cloud Storage

• Different types of GCS buckets and creating one for your project
• Saving files and serving them
• Securing files with bucket and object-level permissions
• Serving secured files using signed URLs
• Object lifecycle management

6. Running Background Tasks with Google Cloud Tasks

• Overview of Cloud Tasks
• Emailing subscribers using the fan-out pattern

7. Cron Jobs with Google Cloud Scheduler

• Overview of Cloud Scheduler
• Deploying daily subscriber emails

8. Logging, Debugging, and Optimizing Your App with Google Operations Tools

• Writing to Cloud Logging
• Browsing and filtering logs using Cloud Logging
• Debugging live traffic using Cloud Debug
• Finding unoptimized areas of your app with Cloud Trace

Conclusion

• Next steps with GCP