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title: Google Cloud Basics
description: This subject introduces the core infrastructure and services of the Google Cloud Platform. Learners will understand how to manage virtual machines, configure cloud storage, deploy basic applications, and utilize identity and access management tools.
category: programming-tech
subcategory: cloud-computing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/google-cloud-basics
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# Google Cloud Basics

This subject introduces the core infrastructure and services of the Google Cloud Platform. Learners will understand how to manage virtual machines, configure cloud storage, deploy basic applications, and utilize identity and access management tools.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 2 Courses • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Google Cloud Documentation

Google's official product documentation for Google Cloud: quickstarts, conceptual overviews, how-to guides and API references for Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, IAM and the rest. The reference you return to once a tutorial stops covering your case.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs

**Tags:** google-cloud, gcp, cloud-computing, documentation

### 2. Google Skills

Google's official training platform, offering guided labs that run in temporary, provisioned Google Cloud projects alongside courses and skill badges. Practice provisioning real resources, IAM, networking and storage against Google's own environment rather than a simulator.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.skills.google/

**Tags:** google-cloud, gcp, hands-on-labs, cloud-computing

## Courses

### 1. Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Google's introductory Coursera course on core cloud infrastructure. Videos and hands-on labs compare compute and storage options such as Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage and Kubernetes Engine, plus IAM and resource hierarchy for managing projects and billing.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/gcp-fundamentals

**Tags:** google-cloud, gcp, cloud-infrastructure, cloud-computing

### 2. Google Cloud Fundamentals

DevOps is a combination of software development (Dev) and operations (Ops). It is defined as a software engineering methodology that aims to integrate the work of development teams and operations teams by facilitating a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility.

In this course, you will learn the skills to become a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) DevOps engineer. You get an understanding of building software delivery pipelines, deploying & monitoring services, and managing & learning from incidents on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

This course provides 4+ hours of training videos which are segmented into modules. The course concepts are easy to understand through lab demonstrations. To test the understanding of learners, every module includes Assessments in the form of Quizzes and In-Video Questions. A mandatory Graded Questions Quiz is also provided at the end of every module. 

Module 1: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Module 2: Networking, Monitoring and Containerization
Module 3: Security and Compliance

To be successful in this course, you should have a basic knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform with fundamental knowledge of DevOps, Monitoring, Security, and Networking tools & concepts.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 5 Weeks of Study, 1:29:80 hours/Week | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/gcp-google-cloud-devops-fundamentals

**Tags:** courses, technology-computer-science, technical-skills

## Books

### 1. Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide

**Author:** Dan Sullivan

Sybex's exam guide for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification, covering project and account setup, deploying and managing compute, storage and networking resources, IAM, monitoring, and gcloud usage, with review questions and practice tests for each objective.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119564417?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, technical-skills

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