Deploying and Managing Windows Workloads on Google Cloud 

Course Introduction

Module Introduction

What is Cloud Computing

Introduction to Google Cloud

Resource hierarchy

Billing

Options for running Windows Workloads

Windows Licensing

Review

Introducing Windows workloads on Google Cloud

Module Introduction

Introduction to Cloud Identity

Google Cloud Directory Sync

Google authentication vs SSO

Authentication Best Pracitces

Lab Intro Deploying a Fault-Tolerant Microsoft Active Directory Environment

Getting Started with GCP and Qwiklabs

Review

Identity for Windows workloads

Module Introduction

Migration types

The migration process

Assess phase

Choosing VMs to Migrate

Migrate for Compute Engine

Migrate phase

Migration waves

Demo: Migrating a Windows infrastructure to Compute Engine

Demo: Migrating to Compute Engine

SQL Server on Compute Engine

Best Practices

High Availability for SQL Server

Review

Migrating Windows Workloads into Google Cloud

Module Introduction

Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Building a Terraform example

Lab Intro: Automating the deployment of Windows Server VMs with Terraform

Google Cloud Marketplace

Review

Automating Deployments of Windows Workloads

Course Review

Module Introduction

Custom Machines

Premium Images

Patch management

Lab Intro: Deploying a VM with a Premium Image

Sole Tenants

SQL Server on Linux

Review

Optimizing costs for Windows Applications

Module Introduction

Intro to Cloud SQL

Deploying SQL Server on Cloud SQL

Maintenance and backups on Cloud SQL

Lab Intro : Deploying SQL Server Workloads on Cloud SQL

Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory

Review

Modernizing with Managed Services

Module Introduction

Introduction to Containers

Windows Containers on GCE

Introduction to Google Kubernetes Engine

Creating a GKE Cluster with Windows nodes

Lab Intro: Containerize a Windows Application

Migrate for Anthos

Review

Modernizing with Containers

Module Introduction

Introduction to Operations Suite

Introduction to Monitoring

Compute Engine Monitoring

Cloud SQL Monitoring

GKE Monitoring

Introduction to Logging

Lab Intro: Configuring and Using Cloud Logging and Monitoring

Review

Cloud Operations with Windows Workloads

Course Review