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Technical Foundations of FinOps on Google Cloud

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Overview

Dive deep into the technical underpinnings of FinOps and gain the expertise to optimize your cloud spending and drive business value. This comprehensive course is designed for cloud architects, engineers, and technical professionals seeking to master the tools, technologies, and strategies that empower effective cloud financial management.

What You'll Learn

  • Understand the core principles of FinOps and how it bridges the gap between technology and finance in the cloud
  • Explore proven techniques to identify cost inefficiencies, optimize resource utilization, and achieve significant savings
  • Utilize advanced monitoring tools and data-driven insights to track spending patterns, forecast costs, and make informed decisions
  • Implement effective cost allocation models to accurately attribute cloud expenses to specific teams or projects
  • Leverage IaC to automate cost management processes, enforce spending policies, and ensure consistent financial governance
  • Use industry-leading FinOps platforms and tools to gain comprehensive visibility into your cloud spending and optimize resource usage
  • Apply your knowledge to real-world scenarios through hands-on exercises and case studies
  • Foster a culture of cost awareness and accountability within your organization

Who Should Attend

Customers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Google Cloud infrastructure as discussed in Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Course Modules

1

Foundations of FinOps on Google Cloud

Topics

  • Financial governance challenges
  • Google Cloud FinOps framework
  • Cloud FinOps operating model
  • Google FinOps journey

Learning Outcomes

  • Recognize financial governance challenges facing organizations today
  • Understand the purpose of Google Cloud FinOps framework
  • Implement the Google Cloud FinOps operating model
  • Discern the three phases and five pillars of the Google FinOps journey
2

Exploring and Understanding Billing Data

Topics

  • Google Cloud Billing accounts
  • Cloud Billing dashboard
  • Billing account access
  • Billing export to BigQuery
  • Connecting Looker Studio to Billing data

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand Google Cloud Billing account management
  • Navigate the Cloud Billing dashboard
  • Control access to billing accounts with IAM and permissions
  • Configure and use BigQuery billing to export data
  • Visualize your costs with Looker Studio

Activities

Lab: Exploring the Billing DashboardLab: Visualizing your Costs with Looker Studio
3

Resource Labeling and Tagging

Topics

  • Labels
  • Tags
  • Label and tag information in billing data

Learning Outcomes

  • Utilize labels on resources
  • Define and bind tags to projects and resources
  • Access label and tag information in billing data

Activities

Lab: Tagging ResourcesLab: Examining Labels and Tags in BigQuery Billing Data
4

Budgets and Alerting

Topics

  • Budgets and alerts
  • Budget roles and permissions
  • Automating budget creation

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the benefits of budgets and alerts
  • Create a budget
  • Create budgets with gcloud, Python, and Terraform

Activities

Demo: Using gcloud and Terraform to create budgets and alerts
5

BigQuery Cost Management and Optimization

Topics

  • Query costs
  • Storage costs
  • Allocating costs of BigQuery
  • Other BigQuery cost concerns

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand BigQuery compute and storage costs
  • Use queries and tools to help understand and manage BigQuery costs
  • Recognize best practices for BigQuery cost management

Activities

Lab: Examining BigQuery Costs Across the Project, Folder, and Organization
6

Compute and GKE Cost Management and Optimization

Topics

  • Computing waste and cost management
  • Compute Engine cost management
  • Understanding network costs
  • Google Kubernetes Engine cost management

Learning Outcomes

  • Use cloud resources efficiently and avoid waste
  • Understand computing and network charges incurred in Google Cloud
  • Understand additional Google Kubernetes Engine costs beyond computing and networking

Activities

Lab: Reviewing and Understanding Compute BillingLab: Reviewing and Understanding Kubernetes Costs
7

Cloud Storage and Database Costs

Topics

  • Cloud Storage
  • SQL on Google Cloud
  • NoSQL on Google Cloud

Learning Outcomes

  • Optimize Cloud Storage costs based on location, access patterns, and lifecycle
  • Understand SQL database costs, including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner
  • Utilize Database Committed Use Discounts (CUD)
  • Understand NoSQL database costs, including Memorystore, Firestore, and Bigtable

Activities

Lab: Working with Cloud Storage Cost ManagementLab: Reviewing and Understanding Database Billing
8

Machine Learning and Vertex AI Cost Management

Topics

  • Machine learning model training and hosting
  • Monitoring Vertex AI costs
  • Generative AI costs

Learning Outcomes

  • Decipher charges associated with machine learning model preparation, training, and hosting
  • Understand costs associated with generative AI usage, including subscriptions and API usage

Activities

Lab: Reviewing Vertex AI Costs in Billing Data
9

Automating Billing Activities

Topics

  • Automating resource management
  • Cloud asset inventory service
  • Programmatic actions on budget alerts
  • Google FinOps Hub

Learning Outcomes

  • Use techniques for automating resource management
  • Respond programmatically to budget alerts Pub/Sub messages
  • Utilize the Cloud Asset Inventory service
  • View recommendations in the Google FinOps Hub

Activities

Lab: Automate Tagging upon Resource Creation Using Asset API, Pub/Sub and Cloud Run FunctionsLab: Programming Budget Alert Actions Using Pub/Sub and Cloud Run Functions
10

Building a FinOps Practice

Topics

  • FinOps Team
  • Goals, Milestones, and Metrics
  • Processes and Workflows
  • Measuring Success
  • Continuous Improvement

Learning Outcomes

  • Establish a FinOps team and a roadmap
  • Implement processes and workflows for FinOps
  • Define success for a FinOps strategy
  • Recognize the need for continuous improvement and evolution of FinOps

Activities

Lab: FinOps Challenge Lab

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Course Details

Course Code
T-TFFO-I
Duration
2 days
Format
ILT
Level
Intermediate
Modules
10
Activities
13
Price
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