Leveraging Advanced Networking and Load Balancing Services on the GCP from Pluralsight

The GCP offers several services related to networking and load balancing that is used to obtain a highly optimized and scaling infrastructure. Such as Cloud CDN for fast serving of web content and GCP-optimized load balancing for container clusters.

In this course, Leveraging Advanced Networking and Load Balancing Services on the GCP, you will gain the ability to significantly reduce content-serving times using Google CDN, leverage DNS for authoritative name-serving, and gain all of the benefits of HTTPS load balancing for Kubernetes clusters using container-native load balancing. First, you will learn how Google CDN can be used to serve content to users from optimized web caches maintained by Google at its Points-of-presence throughout the world. These access points are at the edge of the Google network, and cache content based on specific keys. This is the same highly optimized technology that makes Youtube content so fast to load. You will implement CDN with an HTTP load balancer that has a backend cloud storage bucket and use that to cache images. Any cacheable service from the HTTP backend can be cached by Google CDN. Next, you will discover how to configure your domain with Google DNS. This is an authoritative DNS nameserver service which supports both public and private DNS zones. Your DNS records will reside in a highly available and scalable DNS serving network. Finally, you will explore how to combine two of the hottest services on the GCP - namely HTTP(S) load balancers and Kubernetes clusters. This is done using container-native load balancing, which configures an HTTP(S) load balancer to work with a specific type of backend known as a Network Endpoint Group. Network endpoint groups (NEGs) are zonal resources that represent collections of IP address and port combinations for GCP resources within a single subnet. Each IP address and port combination is called a network endpoint. Network endpoint groups can be used as backends in backend services for HTTP(S), TCP proxy, and SSL proxy load balancers. Because NEG backends allow you to specify IP addresses and ports, you can distribute traffic in a granular fashion among applications or containers running within VM instances. That is exactly what container-native load balancing does - it uses NEGs to distribute traffic across pods. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of powerful advanced features related to networking on the GCP, such as combining load balancers with backend buckets, backend instance groups and network endpoint groups to implement optimized serving of static content as well container-native load balancing.

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Syllabus

Course Overview

Caching HTTP(S) Load Balanced Content Using Cloud CDN

Using Cloud DNS for Low-latency Serving

Using Container-native Load Balancing on Kubernetes

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teaches you how fast content delivery works and explains how to use Google's network to optimize this delivery and reduce load times

Taught by Janani Ravi, who is recognized for their expertise in networking and load balancing

teaches about authoritative name serving, an important and commonly used tool in web development

teaches the fundamentals of HTTP(S) load balancing for Kubernetes clusters, which is important for handling high volumes of traffic to containerized applications

this course utilizes a mix of content delivery methods, including videos, readings, and discussion forums, to cater to different learning styles and preferences

highly relevant for professionals working in web development, site management, and cloud computing who want to enhance their networking and load balancing skills

Activities

Be better prepared before your course. Deepen your understanding during and after it. Supplement your coursework and achieve mastery of the topics covered in Leveraging Advanced Networking and Load Balancing Services on the GCP with these activities:

Practice configuring load balancing and CDN settings in a GCP project

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Solidify your understanding by applying the concepts learned in the course to practical scenarios.

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Create a new GCP project.
Configure a load balancer for an HTTP service.
Configure a CDN to cache static content.
Set up a custom domain name for your CDN.
Monitor and troubleshoot your load balancing and CDN configuration.

Mentor a junior colleague or student on GCP networking and load balancing concepts

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Enhance your knowledge and communication skills by mentoring someone less experienced in these areas.

Browse courses on Cloud Networking

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Identify a junior colleague or student who is interested in learning about GCP networking and load balancing.
Schedule regular meetings to discuss concepts and provide guidance.
Assign projects or tasks to help them apply what they learn.
Provide feedback and support as they progress.

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Career center

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