Udemy – GCE Autoscaling & Load Balancing: Managed Instance Groups

Master Google Cloud Compute Engine Autoscaling and Load Balancing Operations with practical, real-world hands-on engineering strategies.

Who this course is for:

• Cloud Engineers and Systems Administrators seeking to automate Google Cloud VM infrastructure.
• GCP Solutions Architects designing resilient, highly available production systems.
• DevOps Engineers establishing zero-downtime rolling deployments and autohealing setups.
• IT Professionals preparing for Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification exams.

What you will learn:

• Architect and deploy scalable Managed Instance Groups across multiple GCP availability zones.
• Configure External HTTP(S), Network, and Internal Load Balancers for Google Compute Engine.
• Implement CPU and custom Cloud Monitoring autoscaling policies to handle sudden traffic surges.
• Perform zero-downtime rolling updates and canary deployments using GCP instance templates.
• Establish automated health checking and autohealing policies for high availability.
• Secure web application backends using Cloud Armor security policies and firewall rules.
• Diagnose and resolve complex load balancing, health check, and autoscaling operational issues.
• Optimize infrastructure cost by setting operational autoscaling guardrails and instance targets.