I’ve used Google Cloud Platform for some time and got a opportunity to attend Codemen Cloud Academy’s Google Workshop which concentrated to “Kubernetes in the Google Cloud” and “Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop” topics using the Qwiklabs is a platform. Here’s my (very) short notes from the workshop and using Qwiklabs. Most of the things I had used already by running our service on GKE but there’s always something to learn from other’s experiences.
Google Cloud Workshop with Qwiklabs
Qwiklabs is a platform for learning cloud technologies by following exercises and hands-on training. It gives temporary credentials to Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, so you can learn the cloud using the real thing.
The workshop used Cloud Study Jams 2020 session contents. After we completed the first lab, we were automatically granted 30-day pass to continue doing the rest of the labs. The quests in the labs are “priced” with credits which you can buy ($1 per credit) or get with workshop code.
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
The “Kubernetes in Google Cloud” quest in Qwiklabs is an advanced-level quest which gets you hands-on practice of configuring Docker images and containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications. It teaches you the practical skills needed for integrating container orchestration into your own workflow.
There’s nothing much to tell about the quests contents except bunch of docker, gcloud and kubectl commands so I’ll not go through them here.
The Kubernetes in Google Cloud Quest in QwikLabs was as hands-on as it promised and the final quest “Challenge Lab” put all the things together with quite strict time limit. Although I had made notes from the previous quests I just and just managed to paste the commands, wait for the cloud to provision and especially for the Jenkins service to run continuous integration jobs.
Summary
Overall the “Kubernetes in Google Cloud” lab was excellent overview to Kubernetes and how things work in Google Cloud. It covered essential topics and showed how to do things in practice. It helped to have previous experience with Google Cloud but everything was explained and shown so you can learn by doing.
Qwiklabs Google Cloud quests
Qwiklabs has also other Google Cloud related labs as shown below but I didn’t had time to go through them (I totally forgot :/) although the participants who completed the Kubernetes course got two month’s free pass to the platform.
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