GCP Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Essentials — PickAClass
★ 4.2 (4) ⏱ 2h 48m 📚 28 lessons 🎧 Audio version

GCP Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Essentials

Learn to design, scale, and automate resilient cloud infrastructure on GCP using load balancing, autoscaling, and modern infrastructure-as-code principles.

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About this course

As cloud applications grow, manual infrastructure management becomes impossible. Building resilient, self-healing, and cost-effective cloud networks requires a solid understanding of automation and scaling. This course guides you through the foundational concepts of elastic cloud design. You will transition from manual resource provisioning to deploying automated, highly available environments on GCP. What you'll learn: - Understand core cloud networking concepts, including secure VPC peering and hybrid connectivity - Configure global and regional load balancers to distribute traffic efficiently - Implement dynamic autoscaling policies to handle sudden traffic spikes automatically - Apply infrastructure-as-code principles to automate resource deployment and management - Deploy managed services to reduce administrative overhead and improve reliability - Monitor system health and performance using modern cloud observability tools Starting with foundational networking and security concepts, the course moves step-by-step through load balancing, automated scaling, and infrastructure automation workflows. This course is designed for beginners looking to enter cloud engineering or DevOps, with no prior cloud administration experience required. Start building scalable, automated cloud environments today.

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Practice questions 26 / 28
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Reviews (4)

هند بن خالد TN
★ 4 · September 26, 2026

So glad I took this course. The practical applications shown were super helpful, and the overall structure was top-notch.

Saanvi Joshi SG
★ 5 · September 22, 2026

Couldn't have asked for a better learning experience. The structure flowed perfectly, and the examples were incredibly relevant. Highly recommend!

خالد بن يوسف BH Verified learner
★ 4 · September 9, 2026

Good foundational material. I appreciated the structured approach, although I wish there had been a few more real-world case studies.

Mariana Almeida PT Verified learner
★ 4 · July 20, 2026

Solid content and presented clearly. I appreciated the real-world applications shown. Could have used a few more practice opportunities.

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