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Cloud DNS is a scalable, reliable, and managed DNS service that runs on Google Cloud Platform. This course will show you how easy it is to manage millions of DNS records using its simple user interface. You will also learn how to forward DNS requests, as well as how to secure and monitor them.
Learning Objectives
- What Cloud DNS is and what it can do
- Adding DNS records
- Enabling DNS Security Extensions
- Creating public and private zones
- Setting DNS policies
- Logging Cloud DNS activity
Intended Audience
- GCP Networking Engineers
- GCP Security Engineers
- Anyone who is interested in managing DNS using GCP
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of DNS (including DNS records)
Cloud DNS is Google's global domain name service. It has everything you need to manage, and serve your domains. You can use it for mapping public IP addresses to public domain names, and for creating private domain names as well. Now, this second feature is extremely useful for managing highly complex infrastructure. Instead of hard coding the IP addresses of various services in your code, you can use internal DNS names instead. That means that when an IP address changes, you don't have to change your code. It also makes testing and deployment much easier since the same DNS names can work across multiple environments including development, testing, staging, and production.
With Google Cloud DNS, there's no need to maintain your own DNS servers or software. The service is fully managed and highly scalable. It can handle millions of records. Cloud DNS all offers a hundred percent availability and low latency access from anywhere in the world. On top of that, you can also generate detailed logs to use for monitoring and troubleshooting. If you already have a GCP account, then using Cloud DNS is a no-brainer.
Daniel began his career as a Software Engineer, focusing mostly on web and mobile development. After twenty years of dealing with insufficient training and fragmented documentation, he decided to use his extensive experience to help the next generation of engineers.
Daniel has spent his most recent years designing and running technical classes for both Amazon and Microsoft. Today at Cloud Academy, he is working on building out an extensive Google Cloud training library.
When he isn’t working or tinkering in his home lab, Daniel enjoys BBQing, target shooting, and watching classic movies.