Learn GCP in 30 Days: Course Syllabus

Welcome to Learn GCP in 30 Days! This daily subscription curriculum is designed to take complete beginners from zero cloud knowledge to building, securing, and deploying production-ready applications on Google Cloud Platform.

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📅 The 30-Day Daily Learning Plan

🧩 Week 1: GCP Orientation, Billing & Security Essentials

01 - What is GCP and Cloud Computing — Day 1: Cloud Computing Fundamentals, Service Models & Regions/Zones
02 - Navigating the GCP Console Website — Day 2: Complete Web Console Tour, Projects & Cloud Shell Intro
03 - The 4 Ways to Interact with GCP — Day 3: Console, Cloud Shell CLI, SDKs & Terraform
04 - Resource Hierarchy - Org, Folders, Projects — Day 4: Organization Node, Folders, Projects & Policy Inheritance
*[05 - GCP Billing & Setting Up Your $300 Free Credit](/blog/gcp-billing-setting-up-300-free-credit)** — *Day 5: Billing Accounts,$ 300 Free Credit & Budget Alerts Setup
06 - IAM & Access Management - Users, Roles, Service Accounts — Day 6: Identity, 3 Role Types, Service Accounts & Least Privilege
07 - Hands-on Lab - Setting Up Your First GCP Project & Cloud Shell — Day 7: Week 1 Capstone Hands-on Lab

🌐 Week 2: Core Compute & Networking

08 - VPC Networking, Subnets and IP Ranges — Day 8: Virtual Private Cloud & Subnet Design
09 - Firewall Rules and Traffic Control — Day 9: Controlling Inbound & Outbound Network Traffic
10 - Compute Engine VMs - Launching Virtual Servers — Day 10: Provisioning & SSHing into Virtual Machines
11 - Machine Types and Cost Optimization — Day 11: Machine Sizing, Disk Management & Spot VMs
12 - Managed Instance Groups and Autoscaling — Day 12: High Availability & Traffic Autoscaling
13 - Global and Internal Load Balancing — Day 13: Traffic Distribution & Health Checks
14 - Hands-on Lab - High-Availability Web Cluster — Day 14: Week 2 Capstone Lab

📦 Week 3: Serverless & Containerized Applications

15 - Containers 101 and Artifact Registry — Day 15: Docker Basics & Container Registries
16 - Cloud Run - Serverless Container Apps — Day 16: Zero-Server Web App & API Deployment
17 - Cloud Functions - Event-Driven Code — Day 17: Microservices That Run on Triggers
18 - Eventarc and Pub/Sub Integration — Day 18: Asynchronous Event-Driven Architectures
19 - GKE Kubernetes Overview for Beginners — Day 19: Container Orchestration Demystified
20 - Hands-on Lab - Serverless API Pipeline — Day 20: Week 3 Capstone Lab

🗄️ Week 4: Storage & Relational/NoSQL Databases

21 - Storage 101 - Cloud Storage (GCS) Buckets — Day 21: Object Storage, Storage Classes & Lifecycle Rules
22 - Relational DBs - Cloud SQL (Postgres and MySQL) — Day 22: Managed SQL Setup, Backups & Connections
23 - NoSQL DBs - Firestore for Realtime Apps — Day 23: Document Database for Web & Mobile
24 - Caching - MemoryStore Redis — Day 24: In-Memory Caching for Blazing Speed
25 - Enterprise DBs - Spanner and Bigtable Overview — Day 25: Globally Scalable Databases
26 - Hands-on Lab - Full-Stack App with DB & GCS — Day 26: Week 4 Capstone Lab

📊 Week 5: Analytics, DevOps & AI Capstone

27 - BigQuery 101 - SQL Data Warehouse — Day 27: Analyzing Terabytes of Data in Seconds
28 - Secret Manager & Cloud Build CI-CD — Day 28: API Key Protection & Automated GitHub Deployment
29 - Vertex AI Studio and Gemini API — Day 29: AI Integration & GenAI App Building
30 - Capstone Project - Production Deployment — Day 30: Full Production Release & Course Graduation

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