Course Overview
This course teaches you about deploying and managing Microsoft Windows® workloads on Google Cloud. This course uses lectures and hands-on labs to show you how to plan and configure Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in Google Cloud. You will configure identity solutions including Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, deploy Windows workloads to Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine, and learn to manage and operate Windows workloads with Cloud Console, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
Course Objectives
Plan and configure Identity Management in Google Cloud
Deploy Microsoft Windows workloads in Google Cloud
Deploy SQL Server workloads in Google Cloud
Automate the deployment of cloud environments for Windows workloads
Manage and operate Microsoft Windows workloads in Google Cloud
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Google Cloud Customers
Partners
Googlers
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Agenda
1 - Introducing Windows workloads on Google Cloud
- Overview of Google Cloud
- Options for Windows Workloads
- Windows Licensing in Google Cloud
2 - Identity for Windows workloads
- Overview of Cloud Identity
- Cloud Directory Sync
- Authentication Best Practices
3 - Migrating Windows Application VMs
- Migration types
- Choosing VMs to migrate
- Migrate for Compute Engine
- Migration Waves
- SQL Server on GCE
- HA for SQL Server
4 - Automating Deployments of Windows Workloads
- Infrastructure as code
- Terraform
- Cloud Marketplace
5 - Optimizing costs for Windows Applications
- Custom machines
- Premium images
- Patch management
- Sole tenants
- SQL Server on Linux
6 - Modernizing with Managed Services
- Introduction to Cloud SQL
- Deploying SQL Server on Cloud SQL
- Maintenance and backups on Cloud SQL
- Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
7 - Modernizing with Containers
- Introduction to containers
- Windows containers on GCE
- Introduction to GKE
- Creating a GKE cluster with Windows nodes
- Migrate for Anthos
8 - Cloud Operations with Windows Workloads
- Introduction to Operations Suite
- Introduction to Monitoring
- Compute Engine monitoring
- Cloud SQL monitoring
- GKE monitoring
- Introduction to Logging