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GKE

Professional Cloud Developer

Build, test, deploy, and integrate cloud-native applications on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Developer exam across every Domain.

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GKE

Topic in 17 exam domains

Also called: container, Google Cloud clusters, Google Cloud GKE

Google Kubernetes Engine running clusters on Google Cloud.

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9 objectives in 4 of 4 domains

Domain 1
Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications
~32% of exam
1. 1.1Designing high-performing applications and APIs
  - Building, refactoring, and deploying application containers to Cloud Run and GKE
2. 1.2Designing secure applications
  - Using security mechanisms that identify vulnerabilities and protect services and resources (e.g., Identity-Aware Proxy [IAP], Web Security Scanner)
Domain 2
Building and testing applications
~23% of exam
Domain 3
Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment
~24% of exam
1. 3.2Deploying containers to GKE
  - Deploying containerized applications
  - Implementing Kubernetes health checks to increase application availability
Domain 4
Integrating applications with Google Cloud services
~21% of exam
1. 4.3Troubleshooting and observability
  - Instrumenting code to facilitate troubleshooting using metrics, logs, and traces in Google Cloud Observability
  - Identifying and resolving issues using Google Cloud Observability

Related topics

Compute EngineService VPC Service ControlsService Identity and Access ManagementService Pub/SubService Google Kubernetes EngineService

GKEService

Cloud RunService Cloud LoggingService Eventarc triggerFeature Cloud MonitoringService Cloud StorageService EventarcService Workload Identity Federation for GKEFeature AutopilotFeature Autopilot modeFeature GKE AutopilotFeature Google Cloud Managed Service for PrometheusService Horizontal Pod AutoscalerFeature Cloud Service MeshService

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Autopilot is part of GKE
Autopilot mode is part of GKE
GKE Autopilot is part of GKE
Workload Identity Federation for GKE is part of GKE
Cloud Logging works with GKE
Compute Engine is an alternative to GKE
Eventarc trigger works with GKE
Cloud Monitoring works with GKE
GKE works with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
GKE works with Workload Identity Federation for GKE
Cloud Run is an alternative to GKE
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler is part of GKE
Cloud Service Mesh depends on GKE
Cloud Service Mesh works with GKE
GKE depends on Compute Engine
GKE works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Run works with GKE
Workload Identity Federation for GKE depends on GKE
Cloud Storage works with GKE
Compute Engine works with GKE
Eventarc works with GKE
GKE depends on Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
GKE depends on Identity and Access Management
GKE depends on Workload Identity Federation for GKE
GKE Autopilot depends on GKE
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is part of GKE
Identity and Access Management configures GKE
VPC Service Controls secures GKE
Cloud Run works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Run works with Eventarc
Identity and Access Management secures Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Run works with Cloud Storage
Cloud Service Mesh depends on Workload Identity Federation for GKE
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Monitoring works with Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Run works with Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Run works with Eventarc trigger
Cloud Run depends on Pub/Sub
Cloud Service Mesh works with VPC Service Controls
Identity and Access Management works with Workload Identity Federation for GKE
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Storage
Cloud Logging works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Service Mesh works with Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Logging works with Compute Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Service Mesh works with Compute Engine
Cloud Service Mesh works with Identity and Access Management
Cloud Storage works with Compute Engine
Cloud Storage works with Eventarc trigger
Compute Engine is an alternative to Google Kubernetes Engine
Eventarc trigger works with Pub/Sub
Autopilot works with Cloud Logging
Autopilot works with Cloud Monitoring
Autopilot is part of Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Run
Cloud Logging works with Eventarc
Cloud Logging works with Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with Cloud Run
Cloud Monitoring works with Compute Engine

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