Compute Engine - gcloud Commands

 

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You can use 'gcloud' command-line tool to create and manage Google Compute Engine resources.

• Set your Project as default in which you want to create Compute Engine instance

Qwiklabs Access

Qwiklabs for Google Cloud Platform labs 

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• Qwkilabs  provides you access to the Google Cloud environment so that you can perform hands-on activities and understand GCP services in more detail.

• You can get one month free access to Qwiklabs Google Cloud Platform labs by using below steps - 

Google Cloud Free Trial Account Creation

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• Google provides you to create a Free Trial Google Account with a credit limit of $300 which is valid to be used for 90 days.

Google Services Outage

Google has such a great infrastructure and wide network connectivity across the world. But today 14-Dec-2020, there was an outage in Gmail, YouTube and few other Google services as well for some time. It is restored now. 

During this downtime- so many messages float on internet that why Gmail is not working or YouTube is not working.  

This outage was not usual, but it happened.  This downtime caused worry in few people as they thought that there is some problem with their Gmail account. 

Google Cloud Bigtable

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• Google Cloud Bigtable is a fully-managed NoSQL database service. It is key-value store type of NoSQL database.
• Cloud Bigtable is used for large analytical and operational workloads
• Cloud Bigtable is ideal for storing very large amount of data in a key-value store.

GCP - Compute Engine - Pricing Options

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There are multiple ways how you can get discounts while using Compute Engine instances. To get the discounts, it's important to understand the pricing structure for Google Compute Engine.

• The billing for Compute Engine instances is done for each resources used in the instance. For example, each vCPU and each GB of memory used in the Compute Engine instance is billed separately.

GCP - Google Compute Engine - Disks Options

Boot Disks

• These are block storage volumes attached to the  Google Compute Engine instances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• This is the root volume where your images is loaded once you boot the VM instance.

GCP - Compute Engine

 

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What is Google Compute Engine? 

• Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a Virtual Machine which is created on the Google Cloud Infrastructure.

GCP - Google Compute Engine - Machine Type

What is Machine Type?

• Machine Type is a template of virtualized hardware resources needed to instantiate the Google Compute Engine instances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The template contains resources like memory, virtual CPU, persistent disk storage.

GCP - Compute Engine - Images

Images

• While creating a Compute Engine instance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can choose Image.

Encryption at Rest in Storage Systems in GCP

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As part of the security features, Google Cloud Platform encrypts all the data in all storage system. The data is encrypted before storing it in the storage system.

GCP - Cloud Storage gsutil Commands

Why to Learn gsutil Command?

• In the GCP certification exam, there will be few questions based on the gsutil commands. 
• If you are working on Google Cloud projects, then also you should be knowing about these commands as these are faster way to work on Cloud Storage.

What is gsutil?

gsutil is a Command-line tool to work with Google Cloud Storage through CLI. You can install Google Cloud SDK and other command-line tools on your system like gcloud, gsutil and kubectl. 

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Organizations are moving towards Cloud adoption. There are many Cloud providers but AWS (Amazon Web Services), GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Azure are among the top choices, in terms of services used across organizations. If you want to build your career in Cloud, you need to start ASAP. It's been few years when organizations started transforming their digital journey to the Cloud. There are still many organizations which are still on their way to cloud adoption. So, this is the right time to take a step towards Cloud, if you have not taken so far.

I completed below Cloud certifications -

• AWS Solution Architect certification in Jan-2019
• Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Architect certification in Jan-2020

Based on my experience, I am sharing the pointers which may help you in completing the AWS / GCP certification. If you are looking for any of the certification then it is very important that you understand below points -