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CL-223 Cloud & Platform

GCP Architecture & Operations

Design and operate on Google Cloud: load balancing tiers, MIG-based resilience, GKE positioning, hybrid connectivity, and SRE-flavoured operations with SLOs and error budgets — Google's own operational philosophy taught as practice, not slogan.

B4Professional
5modules
34skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 34 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1GCP Design Patterns7 skill atoms
LB hierarchyMIGsmulti-regionglobal vs regional load balancersbackend services & health checksCloud Armor policiesautohealing & rolling updates
2GKE Positioning7 skill atoms
when GKEAutopilot trade-offsStandard node pools vs Autopilot constraintsWorkload Identityregional vs zonal control planesrelease channels & upgrade windowscost model differences
3Hybrid & Connectivity7 skill atoms
InterconnectVPNPrivate Google AccessDedicated vs Partner InterconnectCloud Router BGP sessionsHA VPN dual-tunnel designPrivate Service Connect
4SRE Operations7 skill atoms
SLI/SLOerror budgetstoil reductionrequest-based vs windowed SLIsmulti-window burn-rate alertsCloud Monitoring SLO objectsblameless postmortems
5Design & Ops Defense6 skill atoms
scenario architecture + ops plan reviewSLO proposal per user journeyfailure-mode tablequota & capacity planrollout and rollback strategycost estimate defense
Where it fits

CL-223 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud / Solutions Architect

Practitioner stage
CL-212CL-223CL-311

Enterprise Architect

Professional stage
CL-212CL-223CL-321

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run CL-223 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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