3Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
- 3.1Deploying Compute Engine and GKE
Understand launching Compute Engine instances, autoscaling managed instance groups (MIGs) via instance templates, OS Login for access, and configuring GKE clusters (Autopilot, Standard, regional, private), deploying containerized apps, and using kubectl.
- 3.2Deploying serverless and data
Understand deploying apps to Cloud Run and Cloud Functions, receiving events via Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage changes, and Eventarc, deciding where to deploy, and deploying data products (Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Dataflow) and loading data.
- 3.3Networking and Infrastructure as Code
Understand creating VPCs with subnets (custom mode, Shared VPC), ingress/egress firewall rules based on IP, network tags, and service accounts, connecting external networks via Cloud VPN and VPC Network Peering, and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Config Connector.

