Compute Engine

1. Overview of Compute Engine

   Virtual machine instances, projects, zones, regions and the core resource model.

2. Virtual machine instances

   Creating, starting, stopping, connecting to and managing VM instances and their lifecycle.

3. Machine families and types

   General-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized and GPU machine families and custom machine types.

4. Images

   Public and custom boot images, image families and image management.

5. Disks and storage options

   Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, local SSD and snapshots attached to instances.

6. Instance groups and templates

   Managed and unmanaged instance groups and instance templates for fleets of identical VMs.

7. Autoscaling groups of instances

   Autoscaler policies based on CPU, load balancing capacity and Cloud Monitoring metrics.

8. Spot VMs

   Discounted preemptible capacity, preemption behavior and use cases.

9. VM networking and firewalls

   Network interfaces, internal and external IPs and how instances connect to VPC networks.

10. Access control and OS Login

    IAM roles, service accounts and OS Login for controlling who can access and manage VMs.

11. Quotas and limits

    Resource quotas, allocation quotas and rate limits for Compute Engine.

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• Config Sync
• Cost Management
• Data Catalog
• Database Migration Service