Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud Course - TechEng

1 sessions

Description

This course is a hands-on learning experience designed to provide an actionable set of steps to help your organizations implement a Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) strategy to maximize your cloud investment with Google Cloud. This course focuses on the technical aspects of FinOps, and is suitable for Finance and/or IT engineering and operations roles.

Topics

Course Introduction

Demonstration Lecture - Using Recommendations for Infrastructure as Code

Recommender enables you to retrieve recommendations for Google Cloud resources, helping you to improve cloud security, save costs, and more.

Eng Lab 1 Custom Learning FinOps Course - Optimizing Network Spend

In this lab, you create one VM in the Premium network service tier (default) and one VM in the Standard network service tier. Then you compare the latency and network paths for each VM instance. With Network Service Tiers, Google Cloud enables you to optimize your cloud network for performance by choosing the Premium Tier, or for cost with the new Standard Tier.

Understanding GKE Costs & Optimization

Eng Lab 2 Custom Learning FinOps Course - Exploring Cost-optimization for GKE

Eng Lab 3 Custom Learning

Decrease number of replicas for a Deployment with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Decrease CPU request of a Deployment with Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Decrease number of nodes used in cluster with Cluster Autoscaler

Automatically create an optimized node pool for workload with Node Auto Provisioning

Test the auto scaling behavior against a spike in demand

Overprovision your cluster with Pause Pods

FinOps Course - Understanding and Combining GKE Autoscaling Strategies