Google Cloud | GCE Reliability Engineering using Terraform

Running production grade apps on Google Cloud GCP GCE with Terraform and SRE Reliability Engineering principles.

Created by: Jai Chenchlani
Cloud/GCP | SRE | Platform Engineering Architect

What Will I Learn?

• GCP Overview - Compute, Containers, Storage and Observability
• GCE | Google Compute Engine - In-depth understanding, use cases and best practices
• GCE best practices | concepts and implementation
• Running production grade apps in GCE | 10 Stages of maturity
• Provision GCE resources using GCP Console
• Provision GCE resources via CLI using gcloud
• Building compute images using Packer
• IaC - Provisions GCE resources using Terraform
• Apply Reliability Engineering principles to avoid single points of failure
• Run a website with Observability in GCE with best practices incorporated
• Grafana - One of the most popular visualization/monitoring tool

Requirements

• A Mac or PC computer with access to the internet
• No paid software required - we will use GCP free tier
• High level understanding of GCP and the services it offers
• Basic understanding of Terraform will help, although not a show-stopper

Target audience

• Site Reliability Engineers
• Platform Engineers
• Software Engineers
• Anyone, who wants to get enabled on GCP