Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud Course – TechEng (GSFO-TE) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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 - 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 - Exploring Cost-optimization for GKE

Eng Lab 3 - Understanding and Combining GKE Autoscaling Strategies

  • 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