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Google Cloud Infrastructure Foundations is a PSO (Professional Services Organization) offering from Google Cloud Consulting that helps customers set up their Google Cloud environment with the help of Google's experts. The main goal of the program is designed to provide customers with a reliable, foundational infrastructure landing zone to deploy their workloads. Whether you're just starting your cloud journey or are unsure if your current workload design on Google Cloud is sufficient for the future, Google Cloud Infrastructure Foundations can help.
The Google Cloud Adoption Framework is the gold standard at Google Cloud for providing customers with a framework to accelerate their cloud journey. The cloud adoption themes include learn, lead, scale, and secure within the three epics of people, process, and technology. Cloud Infrastructure Foundations will encompass almost everything in the technology and process dimension with an emphasis on scaling and security.
Cloud Infrastructure Foundations is built upon 4 key pillars – core, networking, security, and automation. Google experts will deliver module workshops and deep dive sessions which will:
- introduce the appropriate foundational concepts in Google Cloud
- demonstrate how each component works together in an enterprise environment
- discuss each topic specific to the customer’s cloud strategy and how it can be applied to architecture design principles
Four key pillars of Cloud Infrastructure Foundations
- Core: Review leading practices on foundational core topics including resource management; logging, monitoring, and auditing; compute; storage; and billing and cost controls.
- Networking: Review leading practices on foundational networking topics including virtual private cloud (VPC) topology, connectivity to Google Cloud, Cloud DNS, and network and web application firewalls.
- Security: Review leading practices on foundational security topics including Cloud Identity, identity and access management (IAM), Security Command Center configuration, network security, virtual machine (VM) security, secret management, incident response, and key management.
- Automation: Review leading practices on foundational automation topics including Infrastructure as code (IaC) principles for automating the creation of Google Cloud resources, repeatable deployment using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and leveraging Google Cloud native and third-party tools – e.g., Cloud Build, Terraform, GitHub – to manage pipeline scripts and templates.
One of the most valuable deliverables from the engagement involves creating a Technical Design Document that describes the Google Cloud foundational design, including recommendations for organization structure and access, network topology and security controls, key management solutions, service account requirements, and organizational policies for restricting capabilities. Additionally, the document will define an automation strategy for repeatable deployments and management of the Google Cloud environment, and provide recommendations for scaling a DevOps practice.
Setting up a cloud infrastructure is a collaborative effort. To make the most out of the engagement, Google recommends a fully engaged sponsor and team, necessary system access completed before kickoff if the customer has an existing Google Cloud environment, availability of the customer team with knowledge of existing systems, environment, and requirements, and stakeholders able to provide sign-off on architecture decisions.
The Cloud Infrastructure Foundations engagement takes 8-12 weeks in general, but can take up to 4-6 months for very large and complex environments. With Google's help, setting up a cloud infrastructure has never been easier.
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