All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress!

[emily927]

📣 Update! 📣

Head over to week 2's Five Star Labs challenge for the latest stop on the #QwiklabsExpress!

Revisit week 1's challenge....

Got your ticket to free labs? Great! Thanks for joining us! 

This is the first station on a three-stop holiday journey between now and the end of the year. Each week, we’ll launch new learning recommendations and opportunities to connect (and gifts too). 

This week, you’re invited to Learn Something New!

Have you ever set up a secure VPC network? Used Terraform? Built a Looker dashboard? Find something in the catalog that you’ve never done before, and give it a shot 🙂 

And now the fun part: we have 50 gifts under the tree this week. How to get your name on one of the tags? Be one of the first 50 GCC users to…

1. Complete a Google Cloud skill badge or quest this week (badge must be dated between now and Dec. 18, no exceptions). 
2. AND be one of the first unique 50 commenters on this exact post (in the Google Cloud Community only). To be considered, your post must include all of the following: 
1. A link to your Skills Boost profile showing your new badge (sorry, badges earned outside the challenge timeline don’t qualify!)
2. And in your comment, answer the question, “What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?” This can be a quick sentence or two, or a paragraph or more. (I love writing but not everyone does!)

Limited to the first 50 GCC members to FULLY COMPLETE REQUIREMENTS or December 18, 2021 EOD (whichever comes first).

👉DO NOT EXPECT A DM IMMEDIATELY👈 if you think you are eligible for a gift. DMs will arrive before Jan 31, 2022. Limit one prize per person, only while supplies last, first come first serve. 

FAQs

1. What if I earn multiple badges?
1. Great! You can post multiple badges if you like but only one post is eligible. 
   
   
2. Where do I post my comment?
1. Reply to this post. Any posts outside of this thread will not be considered. 
   
   
3. What if I am #51?
1. You missed this one but never fear. Stay tuned for next week’s challenge!
   
   
4. What if I don’t want to post a link to my Skills Boost profile?
1. You are welcome to avail yourself of the free training opportunity, but you’re only eligible for a gift if you meet all the requirements listed. 
   
   
5. What if I don’t want to post in the GCC?
1. You are welcome to avail yourself of the free training opportunity, but you’re only eligible for a gift if you meet all the requirements listed. 
   
   
6. What if I have a question about the gift?
1. I’m glad you asked! All swag-related questions should be posted on this thread. Any swag-related comments posted elsewhere (for example in the general forum) will be assessed and removed by moderators, in an effort to keep our forums well-organized and helpful.

Cheers and good luck, looking forward to reading about new skills 🙂🎄

PS: Gift reveal later this week!

[Yugali]

Hey Glen, 

Congratulations on the new badge! Can you please share your public profile link?

[glen_yu]

Oops!  Of course!  Here it is 

[Yugali]

Thank you so much. 🙂 

[Abhishek213]

Can you check my entry too??

[sahasouhardaya]

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant

Here is my  Skill boost profile showing my new badge-Click Here 

I completed two badges Baseline Infrastructure and Google Cloud Essentials.

In the Google Cloud Essentials, I learned about

•  the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment.

• Learned how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.

• Learned about Google Cloud projects, and identify common misconceptions about them.

• Learned how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services.

• Learn about primitive roles, and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users.

• Learn about the API library, and examine its chief features.

In the Baseline infrastructure I learnt about

• Cloud Storage
• Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud IAM
• Cloud Functions

Thanks, Google Cloud, Qwikilabs and @emily927  for this amazing opportunity

[oncloud9]

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant🎅

My Skills Boost profile showing my new badge:-Click Here 

I completed Baseline: Infrastructure badge, Thanks @emily927  and Gcloud and Qwikilabs for this amazing opportunity via community challenge and I learned to create a bucket and upload files in it also learned how to create and deploy cloud functions and also learned to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber using the Google Cloud Platform Console

[Vineet]

My Skills Boost Profile link is here - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5cacb84d-394e-46dc-9551-6610f827751e

I completed the Baseline: Infrastructure badge. The one thing I learned from this badge is Stackdriver. It provides me a method of receiving signals, logs, metrics and traces from the resources so you can quickly see when there is any alert on your cloud.

[Harshit310]

Profile link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/15ba8b2f-ff7b-4e51-bd28-f6b95f65fd7c

BADGE DONE:EXPLORING DATA WITH LOOKER

Learned to build a looker dashboard with various filters and functions like merging and saving them ,FUN to learn as always .....THE labs never disappoint and always help in learning 

THANK YOU GOOGLE FOR THIS AMAZING PLATFORM FOR LEARNING!!!

[wjaroszuk]

Public profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/95d7d743-470e-4e82-9855-3625d0cc979e

Latest badge (few minutes ago): https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/95d7d743-470e-4e82-9855-3625d0cc979e/badges/1598...

What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?: Looker sounds like a fantastic tool to work with data!

[self_babush]

Hi @emily927    Wrt #QwiklabsExpress! :

          I have obtained the Baseline: Infrastructure Badge

          Skills Boost profile :   https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/599ede40-6daf-4df9-a78a-d637031690d3/badges/1598831

         The   Cloud Monitoring Lab which forms a part of the badge was useful in  reinforcing ways in which monitoring can be  a crucial  aspect of shift-right activities in production systems.

[mplibunao]

Create and Manage Cloud Resources

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8f5cb6e6-e5f7-4b95-a816-c3891d328905/badges/1598...

Hi everyone, I'm new here and this is the first skill badge that I've accomplished. As a beginner in the cloud, I've definitely learned a lot from this badge like instance groups, layer 4 and 7 load balancers, kubernetes, and how to set these all up using the cloud shell.

Amazing stuff. Looking forward to learning more. Thank you!

[emily927]

Welcome, and congrats on your first skill badge! 🙂 

[sourav14916]

Hey everyone!!!!!

Hi @emily927 and all other members of the community. I have been waiting to participate in some competition like this being a newbie😄😄😅.I have successfully completed and earned 3 skill badges 1> Google Cloud Essential 2>Baseline Infrastructure and  3>Baseline : Data, ML and AI.

Here's my skill boost profile for Baseline Data, ML and AI- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bbe614fb-3d0f-4932-bc26-3aa41c7317a3/badges/1598...

And here's my public profile-https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bbe614fb-3d0f-4932-bc26-3aa41c7317a3

Now coming to the topic of ML AI and Data. Through these labs my overall understanding about machines and Artificial Intelligence has increased. I also learned the way cloud computing has now started to play a important role in bringing all the mentioned fields together. These labs were easy to understand and helped me immensely to understand so many things in such short span of time.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1😄🤗

[sniper1999]

First of all, thank you @emily927 for giving us such an event #QwiklabsExpress! , had a great time learning new things 😄

Badge Obtained: Exploring Data with Looker

Here's the link to my Skills Boost Badge : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6ed24e77-5bd7-4449-8ba8-f9b1a32ef5d0/badges/1598...

My Public Profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6ed24e77-5bd7-4449-8ba8-f9b1a32ef5d0

What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?:

The one new thing that I learned from this badge is that Looker allows us to merge data from different Explores or even different projects to create tables and visualizations. I think this is a really great feature as we can easily merge data from 2 different sources and can visualize it in a single graph/table/map etc.
I am relatively new to the BI tools, but completing this badge have gave me a really good overview of Looker BI tool, looking forward to explore it more.

[dehscardoso]

Badge Chosen: Exploring Data with Looker

With these labs I learned about Looker Data Explorer, a tool I hadn't used before. I really enjoyed learning more about the possibilities of mixing data. As always Qwiklabs giving me new skills (:

Badge Link

My Public Profile

[Sarvang]

Hey Everyone!

Firstly, thank you @emily927 for bringing this exciting learning opportunity. keep them coming!

I have successfully completed the Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud Quest.
From the labs of this Quest I learned ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, and many more exciting things with GCP.

You can view my recently earned badge along with other badges on my Public Skills Boost Profile here - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8687c5eb-489d-4e0b-b14e-a66fe3a9ed10

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

[MasterFrederick]

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant

My Skills Boost profile shows my new badge:-https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/459d8739-1ca4-4e7c-8541-da969ba8ca6b

I completed Intro to ML: Image Processing. Through this lab, I was able to implement image processing in GCP using AutoML VISION. Learnt to detect text from images, detect faces and analyze images. I also got to know about the GCP AI platform and can surely say that I stand ready with the required skills. 

PS:I am an Indian.

[Amol522]

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/9ce6c120-0ffb-4cd9-8c9c-98af87ce5197

This quest provides a great hands-on experience on the fundamentals of google cloud and how this knowledge could be incorporated in the business needs of any individual or entity. I learnt about the core infrastructure that's powering the google cloud platform.

[sathyapriyan]

Hi @emily927 and Google Cloud Community,

Here is my profile - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ad40b0f5-1083-4637-b385-fdb49f901312.

I learnt Exploring Data with Looker.

I already have a keen interest in Data Analysis and visuvalisation. This Quest gave me a deep hand on about using looker. 
Thanks for the opportunity.

[eshwar]

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress!

My profile Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e76e78d9-2427-4511-9329-aa0984fac088?qlcampaign=...

Earned my Infrastructure Baseline Badge !!

This quest helped me understanding the basic infra services quickly and giving the confidence by actually performing the tasks. Cloud Functions + Cloud Storage + IAM + Pub Sub.. Have got good control over the console actions now 

[Raktimbar700]

@emily927  [#QwiklabsExpress!]

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well.

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant

Here is my profile showing my new badge-Click Here 

I completed Google Cloud Essentials.

In the Google Cloud Essentials, I learned about

• basic Google Cloud features: Projects, Resources, IAM Users, Roles, Permissions, and APIs.

• Learned how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.

• In this hands-on lab,I learned how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and understand zones, regions, and machine types. 

• Learned how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services.

• In this hands-on lab, I learned learn how to setup both network load balancers and HTTP load balancers

• This hands-on lab(Kubernet Engine:Qwik start) shows me how deploy a containerized application with Kubernetes Engine.

• Learned how to use Cloud Shell and gcloud commands

Thanks, Google Cloud, Qwiklabs and @emily927  for this amazing opportunity

[SubhadeepChaki]

@emily927  [#QwiklabsExpress!]

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant

My profile Link -  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a2727275-5a42-4e60-8992-54db5c3a47ab

Badge Link -  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a2727275-5a42-4e60-8992-54db5c3a47ab/badges/1599...

I completed Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud

I learned how to use Google Cloud Storage, Manage User Access using IAM, How to monitor activity using  Cloud Monitoring and send alerts, Cloud Functions to Keep track of activity and for specific task run cusmtomized functions

Thanks, Google Cloud, Qwiklabs  for this amazing opportunity.

Email Id - chakisubhadeep7@gmail.com

[himanshukharkar]

@emily927 

#QwikilabsExpress! 
Badge Completion link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ede163e4-a700-4937-aaa9-de3af16f0149/badges/1599...

My profile Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ede163e4-a700-4937-aaa9-de3af16f0149

I completed Baseline: Infrastructure

I learned many things about Google Cloud and Got Hands-on Practical Experience on Cloud Storage, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Functions, and PUB/SUB, It's great to do things practically while learning that is how i like to learn new stuff, Thank You Google Cloud Community & Qwikabs for this opportunity.

[vrajeshbabu]

@emily927 

#QwiklabsExpress!

I completed google cloud essential badge 

view my skill badge at https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/c5edf97a-15b3-43e4-b65b-2a6a3e2e76d4/badges/1599227

public profile https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/c5edf97a-15b3-43e4-b65b-2a6a3e2e76d4

I had an hands-on learning experience on creating virtual machine using gcp platform and

also using gcloud command, installing ngix etc,.

[Akshay-jain22]

@emily927#QwiklabsExpress
Hi there, thanks for providing this opportunity. 

Here's my public profile - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f2b1b685-3908-4571-838c-01b53da27550

Workspace Essentials Badge - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f2b1b685-3908-4571-838c-01b53da27550/badges/1599...

Today I achieved my 13th badge on Cloud Skills Boost and Qwiklabs.

Through this quest, I got to know a lot more about the functionalities of Gmail, Calendar, and other Workspace Essential Tools provided by Google.

The best was to learn about AppSheet because I didn't knew about AppSheet before today. It's a really cool tool to connect applications with csv files on drive. I was able to create csv databases on drive and was able to access them thru AppSheet console.

Great 🙂

[Sigma_user]

@emily927   #QwiklabsExpress! 

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well and in the good health.

I am very happy and excited to announce that today I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials"  Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Profile and Completed badge.

Profile link :- 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8ebb1679-8f2e-4a2c-b6d8-18f04f70f151

Badge Link :-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8ebb1679-8f2e-4a2c-b6d8-18f04f70f151/badges/1599...

In this Quest, I learnt about the 

1. How to create a Virtual Machine .

2. Got insights about Cloud shell and GC Cloud.

3. Got to know about the Kubernates Engine.

4. At last I have Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers and finally completed the challenge. 

Once again Thanks to Google Cloud for launching the #QwiklabsExpress!  Hoping to get communication from your side asap, excited for the prize. 

Thanks all!

[PrasunRoy]

@emily927  [#QwiklabsExpress!]

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant

My Profile Link -  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/68d31090-3ad0-4d55-93aa-b62541fac473

Badge Link -  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/68d31090-3ad0-4d55-93aa-b62541fac473/badges/1599...

I completed Create and Manage Cloud Resources

I learned,

• how to create a Google Compute Engine machine and understand zones, regions
• how to access Google Compute Engine with RDP
• how to deploy, manage, and scale our containerized applications with Google Kubernetes Engine
• how to set up both network load balancers and HTTP load balancers for our application.

Thanks, Google Cloud, Qwiklabs Team for this amazing opportunity. #QwiklabsExpress

[SONU_GANDHI]

@emily927 [#QwiklabsExpress!]

#QwikilabsExpress! Participant

My profile Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/312b50d8-2393-4dc4-bfb7-f89d5116d3ed

I completed Networking in Google Cloud

Badge Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/312b50d8-2393-4dc4-bfb7-f89d5116d3ed/badges/1599...

I learned User Authentication: Identity-Aware Proxy, VPC Networks - Controlling Access , Create an Internal Load Balancer, Google Cloud's Packet Mirroring in conjunction with an Open Source Intrusion Detection System, HTTP Load Balancer with cloud armor, Multiple Vpc networks which was helpful and give some knowledge.

Thanks, Google Cloud, Qwiklabs ,emily for this amazing opportunity.

[Ankit_Arsh]

I am glad to say that I just completed "Networking in Google Cloud". It was an awesome learning experience. I created VPC networks and VM instances and tested connectivity across networks. I also configured an HTTP Load Balancer with global backends. My qwiklabs profile - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d3c24648-8470-476e-a22d-9abe83432906 

My badge -

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d3c24648-8470-476e-a22d-9abe83432906/badges/1599...

[hanshulll]

@emily927 

Public Profile link --> https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6d96b8ad-0896-41f6-b07c-d6e1ec3a06a0 

Badge which I’ve completed --> EXPLORING DATA WITH LOOKER

In this I learned how to use the Explore interface to access data published by LookML developers. In this quest, I learned the fundamentals of data exploration in Looker including but not limited to dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explores, and using advanced functions.

Thank you Google and Qwiklabs for providing such amazing platform for learning and doing things practically.

[harshit1921]

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well.

I am very happy and excited to tell that today I just completed "EXPLORING DATA WITH LOOKER" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile, https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/4f8f7c94-e5ce-4c6d-b0ee-45578bc920d9

In this quest, I learned fundamentals of data exploration in Looker including but not limited to dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explores, and using advanced functions. looking forward to using it soon for a project .

[sophiesub]

@emily927   #QwiklabsExpress! 

I am thrilled to complete yet another lab - Baseline: Infrastructure

Here is my profile link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/fba59dc8-f933-4c06-ab55-66c3d6b29c53

What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?:

I have received important practical knowledge about two key applications Stackdriver and Cloud Functions.I learned how to perform basic functions  in Cloud Storage using the gsutil command-line tool.It proved really beneficial since I am relatively new to this

Thank you for the opportunity

[Jhuma]

#QwiklabsExpress!

I completed google cloud essential badge 

view my skill badge at : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/70088c19-d859-42a8-838a-46eb751d7d94

I had an hands-on learning experience on creating virtual machine using gcp platform and

also using gcloud command, installing ngix etc,. Learned to create a load balancer and got very much interested.

[omgupta]

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress! 

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well.

I am very happy and excited to tell that today I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile, link~https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/51ac398c-170d-4e9d-9017-ea61be11c3be

I learn about virtual machine ,etc.

badge link~ https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/51ac398c-170d-4e9d-9017-ea61be11c3be/badges/1599...

[ishita1427]

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress

Hey Google Cloud Community!

 I have completed "Google Cloud Essentials" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile,https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bef9c90c-35fc-41dd-9f1f-fae9695920df

I learned how to create  Vm instance and cluster . I also learned load balancing using http . this was really a great experience and it helped me enhance my knowledge . I am very excited for the prize reveal.!!

Thanks to Google Cloud and Qwiklabs for launching the #QwiklabsExpress! l!

Ishita

[Abhishek_5050]

gift mujhe de dena😂

[Abhishek_5050]

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well and in the good health.

I am very happy and excited to announce that today I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials"  Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Profile and Completed badge.

my quicklab public profile :- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c46d922c-71bc-43d7-9667-5b860ef72ee0?qlcampaign=...

Badge link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c46d922c-71bc-43d7-9667-5b860ef72ee0/badges/1599...

 Gmail id :- abhishekgupta202063@gmail.com

Thank you Google 

#google #quicklabs

[Abhishek_123]

I learned how to create  Vm instance and cluster . I also learned load balancing using http . this was really a great experience and it helped me enhance my knowledge . I am very excited for the prize reveal

[Sam_kn]

Here's the link to my Skills Boost Badge : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/050ad16a-ca9c-43cc-a47d-e0a00be65cf8/badges/1599...

I learned a lot about digital transformation with Google Cloud ...definitely gonna help me in my exam!!!

Thank you @emily927!!

[Abhishek_5050]

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well and in the good health.

I am very happy and excited to announce that today I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials"  Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Profile and Completed badge.

Profile link :-  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c46d922c-71bc-43d7-9667-5b860ef72ee0?qlcampaign=...

badge link:-  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c46d922c-71bc-43d7-9667-5b860ef72ee0/badges/1599...

Thank you google 

Gmail id :- abhishekgupta202063@gmail.com