Google Cloud is one of the most popular public clouds in the industry, and it gets bigger and bigger by the day. Thousands of organizations, from all sizes and shapes, are moving to the cloud, and being able to work with it is one of the most important skills for every developer, architect, or IT admin.

And this course does just that.

If you'll take this course, you'll become a real expert in Google Cloud.

We start from the very basics - what is the cloud and what it's good for - and go to the most advanced concepts such as Organization Policy, Cost management, and lots more.

By the end of this course you'll be familiar with the most important services in Google Cloud, and also some real hidden gems known only to the few (Metadata services, for instance), and you'll be able to work with Google Cloud and design and build modern cloud apps, utilizing the most up-to-date cloud services.

Here is a partial list of what we'll talk about in this course:

- What is the cloud

- Google Cloud vs other clouds

- The Console

- Compute - Virtual Machines, App Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions and more

- Networking - VPC, Subnets, Firewall rules, Load balancers and more

- Data Services - Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Memorystore, BigTable, Cloud Storage and more

- Messaging - Pub/Sub, Eventarc

- Identity management with Cloud IAM and Identity Platform

- Logging and Monitoring

- Implementing security in the cloud

- Cost Management

- Disaster Recovery (DR)

And lots and lots more...

Now, to make sure that this course is the best Google Cloud course out there, I've decided to make it a little bit different.

Instead of going through the various services of Google Cloud, talking about each one and perhaps even doing a demo - this course takes a different approach.

We're going to build, together, a full blown modern cloud system on Google Cloud.

Together, we're going to build the Readit website, a fictional bookstore that's built in Google Cloud.

We're going to begin with the very basics - take a code and put it on a virtual machine in the cloud.

And then we're going to add more compute elements, add networking, databases, messaging, monitoring, security, and even DR! (Take a look at the video preview - you can see there the architecture diagram of the system at the beginning, and how it looks like when we're done with it. Worth watching...)

And when we're done - you'll be able to say that you've built a complete system in Google Cloud!

This is something you can show future employers and clients, and explain them how the system is designed, and what are the reasons it's built like this.