Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Cert Prep: 1 Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture

Introduction

• Course and exam overview
• Onboarding to GCP cloud

1. Designing a Solution Infrastructure that Meets Business Requirements

• KPIs, TCO, managed services, systems integration, compliance, security, ROI

2. Designing a Solution Infrastructure that Meets Technical Requirements

• High availability, elasticity of cloud resources, scalability, performance, and latency

3. Designing Network, Storage, and Compute Resources

• Integration, containerized microservices, Kubernetes and GKE, compute choice, storage choice
• Using Google Cloud Functions
• Running minikube
• Running minikube with FastAPI for Kubernetes development
• Getting started with Google Cloud Run
• Load testing with Locust

4. Envisioning Future Solution Improvement

• Design technical solutions for evolution and migration
• SRE mindset

Conclusion

• Summary