Modernizing Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud

What this chapter covers

This section is about moving workloads to the cloud and modernizing how applications are built, and it is worth about 18 percent of the exam. It covers how Google Cloud helps organizations transition (migration and compute terms), the business value of Google Cloud's infrastructure offerings (Compute Engine, modern application development, GKE, Cloud Run and Cloud Run functions, hybrid and multicloud products) and the business value of APIs (APIs, API monetization and Apigee).

The exam stays at the level of "which approach or product fits this business goal", never commands.

How the topics fit together

• Cloud migration terms covers workloads, discovery and assessment, and the migration approaches.
• Compute terms and Compute Engine covers VMs, containers, microservices, serverless, Spot VMs, Kubernetes, autoscaling, load balancing and managed services.
• Modern applications with GKE and serverless covers modern application development, GKE, Cloud Run and Cloud Run functions.
• Hybrid and multicloud products covers AlloyDB Omni, BigQuery Omni, GKE Enterprise, Cloud SQL and Looker.
• APIs and Apigee covers what an API is, API monetization and Apigee API Management.

How to use these pages

Each topic page has the same shape, so you can skim for what you need.

• What it is: the idea in plain words.
• How it works: the mechanism, with examples and tables.
• What to remember for the exam: the facts to memorise and how questions are phrased.
• Common mistakes: the classic traps.
• Check yourself: three questions to test your understanding.