Hi, and welcome to the Google Cloud
Fundamentals Core Infrastructure training course. The goal of this course is to provide
you with an overview of Google Cloud. Google Cloud offerings can be broadly
categorized as compute, storage, big data, machine learning, and
application services for web, mobile, analytics, and backend solutions. Through a combination of video, quizzes,
and hands on labs, you'll learn the value of Google Cloud and how cloud solutions
factor into business strategies. The intended target audience of today's
course consists of solutions developers, systems, operations professionals. And solution architects planning
to deploy applications and create application
environments on Google Cloud. This course will also be useful for business decision makers
evaluating Google Cloud. While you should be happy to hear that
we'll be finding out about services and concepts that are specific to
Google Cloud in this course. Do keep in mind that as a fundamentals
level course, some content will be geared towards learners who
are entirely new to cloud technologies. This course has no prerequisites,
although it's helpful to be familiar with application development, Linux operating
systems, systems operations, and data analytics and machine learning to
best understand the technologies covered. There are six key learning objectives
that we're hoping to achieve. By the end of this course, you should
be able to, identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and
services. Define how infrastructure is organized and
controlled in Google Cloud. Explain how to create a basic
infrastructure in Google Cloud, select and
use Google Cloud storage options. Describe the purpose and
value of Google Kubernetes engine, and identify the use cases for
serverless Google Cloud services. Okay, all set, let's begin.