All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress!

📣 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!

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@emily927  #QwiklabsExpress! 

Hi, Google Cloud Community! I am happy to tell that today I earned "Networking in Google Cloud" badge by completing the lab on qwiklabs. Thanks for providing awesome subscribtion. My profile link is https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d427c09f-46de-4746-80ad-0b0c6d8be776

 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d427c09f-46de-4746-80ad-0b0c6d8be776/badges/1603...  

In this lab I had learned

1)how user authentication is done. App Engine Web application is deployed, in which we can restrict the access to the user, get the information of the user, cryptographically how to identify the user.

2) Created several custom mode VPC networks, firewall rules and VM instances using Cloud console and Cloud shell command line.

3) Created 2 nginx web servers and controlled external HTTP access using firewall rules.

4) To test internal Load Balancer, 2 instance groups are created along with firewall rules to allow HTTP traffic to those instances and TCP traffic from the Google Clould Health checker 

Profile - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bd9cfc37-71df-4ff5-8d9c-59ac3540dd81

Google Cloud Essentials badge - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bd9cfc37-71df-4ff5-8d9c-59ac3540dd81/badges/9550...

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

Answer - For me badges, and digital credentials as a whole, represent an evolutionary change in the way I recognize learning and achievements on a larger scale and have learned almost all the things about Google Cloud and Quicklabs through this program.

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress! 

I just completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion badge. The link of my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d31c10c-6673-428c-8c54-8d87654adfb4

Badge link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d31c10c-6673-428c-8c54-8d87654adfb4/badges/1603...

Awesome Quest/labs Experience
Thanks,
Gunjan Kumar

First of all I would like to thanks #GoogleCloud for giving this amazing opportunity. I am very new to this lab and really enjoyed completing this quests and using this lab. I surely think this quest can my boost skills and I can used this technology in my projects. I completed Baseline: Infrastructure quests and learn how to use qwiklabs and have a hands on practice on this. Once again thanks to google.

Here is my Profile.https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e8e38769-d646-4f45-b1f9-2bd4962ef474 

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress! 

I just completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion badge. The link of my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d31c10c-6673-428c-8c54-8d87654adfb4

Badge link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d31c10c-6673-428c-8c54-8d87654adfb4/badges/1603...

Awesome Quest/labs Experience
Thanks,
Gunjan Kumar

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/quests/33?qlcampaign=1q-qlx-221

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 Thanks to google cloud because I was able to understand about cloud storages and creating buckets.

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress! 

I just completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion badge. The link to my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d31c10c-6673-428c-8c54-8d87654adfb4

Badge link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d31c10c-6673-428c-8c54-8d87654adfb4/badges/1603...

Awesome Quest/labs Experience
Thanks,
Gunjan Kumar

Dear, @emily927 

Here is my Google Cloud skill boost #QwicklabsExpress! Quest challenge completion details and experience.

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

Answer: I took the lab course of Google Cloud Baseline Infrastructure in which I have learned the following great things.

  • I learned how Google Cloud Pub/Sub service allows applications to exchange messages reliably, quickly, and asynchronously.
  • I learned how to create a Pub/Sub topic, publish to the topic, created a subscription, then use the subscription to pull data from the topic.
  • I learned how Google Cloud IAM unifies access control for Cloud Platform services into a single system to present a consistent set of operations.
  • I learned how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring.
  • I learned how to create and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Console.

Winning and not winning is another thing in this challenge but one thing I can clearly say is that I have learned many new things in this Quest and gained a good amount of knowlegde and all thanks to the Google cloud skill boost program due to which we are able to learn new things.

Here is my profile link with a new badge: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d87a37cf-a72f-4572-a730-c430d070b3c6

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 Thank You!



 

My Qwiklabs Public:-https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e4284d07-90bc-4233-83bf-f89df0f3a808 

Google Cloud Essential Badge :- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e4284d07-90bc-4233-83bf-f89df0f3a808/badges/1603... 

It was an amazing experience for me .Here get to do some practical work on google cloud for first time. From this "Google Cloud Essential" i have got to learn about  virtual machine creation ,cloud shell and gcloud , Kubernetes Engine and for me  most interesting topic was Network and HTTP Load Balancers. Thank you. 

My Qwiklab Public Profile:-  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ffbf6aa0-aaf7-405c-9595-7df464ff9e17

Google Cloud Essentials badge Complete Link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ffbf6aa0-aaf7-405c-9595-7df464ff9e17/badges/1376...

I come in with little prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that I can apply to my first Google Cloud project. Cleared my doubts also Through these labs my overall understanding about Virtual machines and Cloud engine has increased.

Amazing experience,happy to with u❤️

Link to my Google Cloud public profile:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/9c84fe41-ab3f-404d-aee9-6af74c2d8755

Link to my Google Cloud Skill badge:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/9c84fe41-ab3f-404d-aee9-6af74c2d8755/badges/1603...

 

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I learnt how to use the Explore interface to retrieve data published by Look ML developers after finishing the  Looker quest. In this course of my journey, I acquired the essentials of data exploration in Looker, including dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explorations, and using advanced functions.

 

Hey Everyone!

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

I have successfully completed the Baseline: Data, ML, AI Quest.

Today's current computing topics are big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, but these fields are extremely specialised, and basic material is hard to come by. Thankfully, Google Cloud offers user-friendly services in these areas, and Qwiklabs has us covered with this beginner-level quest.

What I learned in this quest: AI Platform: Qwik Start , Dataprep: Qwik Start , Dataflow: Qwik Start - Templates , Dataproc: Qwik Start - Console , Cloud Natural Language API: Qwik Start , Reinforcement Learning: Qwik Start 

Thanks, Google Cloud, Qwikilabs and @emily927 for providing such learning opportunities!


You can view my recently earned badge along with other badges on my Public Skills Boost Profile here - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d88fafb8-c078-46bb-8ead-b8059299fb86 

 

Baseline: Data, ML, AI badge earned link: https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/ZirJut00Mrzy6zJH4KLx5NsLrsXgDkMq7BKusZtdFGM%3D 

 

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

I do like GCC programs they to good they give us knowledge and swage for learning with them and yes its very very good and nice opportunity  

 

my  profile link -  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a430406c-ac99-4ab1-b024-b7beca1284ed

bandage link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a430406c-ac99-4ab1-b024-b7beca1284ed/badges/1603...

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#QwiklabsExpress

My Profile- https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/219611ae-6e28-4861-bd0f-40a15dc4e066

My badges:-

 

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Hi Google Cloud Community,

It was wonderful  experience to work hands-on practice with google cloud  

I have learned writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing and also i learned how to use Cloud Shell, create and deploy virtual machines in Compute Engine, run containerized applications on Google Kubernetes Engine, and configure network and HTTP load balancers.

I hope that i get some exciting SWAGES that will motivate me for future challenges and also help in learning new things .

THANK YOU.

Qwiklabs public profile -https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a7aca761-c36d-4e21-9921-14efa59f38d6

badge link- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a7aca761-c36d-4e21-9921-14efa59f38d6/badges/1603...google badge.JPG

Experience- It was a fun experience of learning with Google Cloud and Quicklabs. Thankyou for providing such a great platform for learners and helping build new skills. Flutter is interesting and good for developers and designers.

Hello Everyone!

Thank you @emily927 and team, for creating well structured self-learning platform.

I have successfully completed and earned following 4 skill badges.
1)Create and Manage Cloud Resources
2)Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud
3)Kubernetes in Google Cloud
4)Google Cloud Essentials

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You can view my recently earned badges on my Public Skills Boost Profile here:

My Profile 
With these labs, I have learnt about how to create vm from console as well as from cloud shell,
creating load balancer to distribute load across multiple instances and find unhealthy servers with health checks, working with docker, deploying and working with Jenkins in Kubernetes Engine to enable a CI/CD pipeline.

 

With the help of above quests,

I understood how to design and establish elastic, fault tolerant, reliable, secure and highly available infrastructure on

google cloud platform.

Thanks once again.

Best Regards,
T.SRINIVAS.

Excited and thankful to GCC and Qwiklabs for giving such an amazing learning platform.

Successfully completed the Quest Baseline: Data, ML, AI

Here's Profile link:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6836ca50-d33e-41c7-ad14-14b44f01c86f/badges/1603...

 Learning from any resources is good but practical knowledge is what we really  gain.  And with Qwiklabs we I got.

Love to continue my learning journey with qwiklabs and GCC. This Learning does not ends here, but it will begin from here.

Not just learned Data, ML, AI but practically done it. 

 

Thank you!!

 

Excited and thankful to GCC and Qwiklabs for giving such an amazing learning platform. Successfully completed the Quest:- Baseline: Data, ML, AI

Here's the Badge link:

 

 Learning from any resources is good but practical knowledge is what we really  gain.  And with Qwiklabs we I got.

Love to continue my learning journey with qwiklabs and GCC. This Learning does not ends here but it will begin from here.

Not just learned Data, ML, AI but practically done it.

 

Thank you!!

 


Screenshot 2021-12-17 005138.jpgQwiklabs is designed so beautifully to learn and practice Google Cloud from beginner to being expert. I have learned particularly from this lab to work more with cloud shell from installing packages to deploy create and manage custom IAM permissions,  configuring networking and working with BigQuery. My experience was amazing with this lab it learn me to work more with cloud shell. Thank google for crate a beautiful and user-friendly cloud platform for us. 

Public profile- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/db9a29b5-a009-4bb3-9a60-e360e3c499f7

My Public URL : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/579a1146-4f72-4b96-b2b7-c53217ef9bbe?qlcampaign=...

 

I completed 2 quests on Qwiklabs and I am sharing badges. I learned a lot about google cloud after completion of labs.

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#QuicklabsExpress Participant

I have recently completed Baseline Infrastructure quest and here is the link for the same - Baseline Infrastructure Badge 

The link to my profile is  - Click  

In Baseline Infrastructure Quest I learnt about

Cloud Functions - These cloud functions are serveless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services. 
Cloud Monitoring - It is a method of reviewing, observing, and managing the operational workflow in a cloud-based IT infrastructure. 
Cloud IAM - IAM stands for Identity and Access Management. IAM lest administrators authorize who can take action on specific resources, giving you full control and visibility to manage Google Cloud resources centrally.
Cloud Storage - Google cloud storage is a restful online file storage web service for storing and accessing data on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. 
Thank you Google Cloud, Quicklabs and @emily927 for giving such a wonderful opportunity. Hoping to be in top 50 🙂

 

Great opportunity 

#QwiklabsExpress!

I just completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion badge. The link to my profile:

 https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/fcd786a4-f16e-4b33-bbeb-cfc3094ec2de?qlcampaign=...

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Hello all!

Thank you  @emily927 for organizing such programs #QwiklabsExpress😁.

I have completed the Exploring Data with Looker and earned a skill badge. While completing this lab I have learned a lot about Looker about filtering and sorting the data and also how to merge the data and much more. It was great fun to learn something new and interesting.

Looking forward to much more programs.😄

Badge Link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/99025186-85c5-4aa0-8af0-480105b607ff/badges/1603... 

Public Profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/99025186-85c5-4aa0-8af0-480105b607ff 

What's one new thing you learned from the badge?

My profile:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/51c1bddf-2ce8-4481-a41d-823379cfd39f

My badge: Exploring data with looker.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/51c1bddf-2ce8-4481-a41d-823379cfd39f/badges/1603...

Completed "Exploring data with looker". The course was simple to understand and helped me gain new skills. Using looker was the new thing I learned from this badge.  Glad to have come across this badge.

 


https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2c5521f4-80f8-428a-885a-d94838839b56/badges/1603... 

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I was looking for Kubernetes Hands on. Thanks to #QuiclabsExpress for these labs. I explore many new things link working with jankins and get to know about Blue green deployment modal and many other new stuff.

Again Thanks 




My Qwiklab Public Profile:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/aaec41f8-3aaa-44aa-8345-61b66c98b0b4

 

badge link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/aaec41f8-3aaa-44aa-8345-61b66c98b0b4/badges/1603...

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this is my first time that i have completed(develop and manage cloud environment) the labs fully .

I come in with little prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that I can apply to my first Google Cloud project. Cleared my doubts regarding the basic concepts of GCP also.  so many insights from this lab.

really very helpful and i would also like to thanks google team for providing such a wonderful knowledge along with praticals.

 

 

Public Profile Link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/b9cb219a-1a53-4d6f-9ec3-4f73e464a7b8

Batch Link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/b9cb219a-1a53-4d6f-9ec3-4f73e464a7b8/badges/1603...

I learned the skills of how to use the GCP platform and learned new terminologies in the same.

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 Thank You for this opportunity!

My Qwiklab Public Profile Link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/028cf3a2-6316-4f7b-b73c-df7f4e8ef576?qlcampaign=...

Google Cloud Essential badge complete Link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/028cf3a2-6316-4f7b-b73c-df7f4e8ef576/badges/1603...

Earning this badge i got hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Cleared my doubts regarding the basic concepts of GCP.

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My Qwiklab Public Profile:-  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/26b049cf-4a3a-4fb2-87a2-618da3c528e5

Google Cloud Essentials badge Complete Link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/26b049cf-4a3a-4fb2-87a2-618da3c528e5/badges/1604...

It was very great practical hands-on!, without any subsequent knowledge I was able to understand as-well-as learnt the practical application through Google console and it led me to Earn a Completion Badge!.. 

 

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"  and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile :- 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/9b385245-746a-4f72-9493-fa32a74a71d3

From 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. 

Thanks @emily927 for keep bringing such challenges.

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 Wow! Before coming here i watched some videos about GCP but didn't get clearly about it but now i am very clear as the points were presented in a very simple way. Thank you.

I am really excited from this lab

#qwiklabsexpress2021

My Qwiklab Public Profile:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2fec7759-3f18-47b3-855b-8d024904165f

Google Cloud Essentials badge Complete Link:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2fec7759-3f18-47b3-855b-8d024904165f/badges/1576...

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2fec7759-3f18-47b3-855b-8d024904165f/badges/1575...

As I was exploring various cloud platforms like GCP, Azure, and  AWS. as I try all of them but in my scenario, I have seen that the GCP lab feature is far more superior to any platform and I love it.  and I am bullish in GCP that it can surpass AWS to become the no 1 cloud provider. as per recommendation I have completed all labs and earned a certificate on it, this is my experience from GCP and I like it.

Thanks

 

 

My Qwiklab Public Profile:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2fec7759-3f18-47b3-855b-8d024904165f

Google Cloud Essentials badge Complete Link:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2fec7759-3f18-47b3-855b-8d024904165f/badges/1576...

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2fec7759-3f18-47b3-855b-8d024904165f/badges/1575...
As I was exploring various cloud platforms like GCP, Azure, and  AWS. as I try all of them but in my scenario, I have seen that the GCP lab feature is far more superior to any platform and I love it.  and I am bullish in GCP that it can surpass AWS to become the no 1 cloud provider. as per recommendation I have completed all labs and earned a certificate on it, this is my experience from GCP and I like it.

Thanks

 

 

I learned Anthos related courses these days, I love free labs and courses on qwicklabs.

My public profile

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81

 

Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud
Earned Dec 14, 2021 EST
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81/badges/1599...

Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Earned Dec 14, 2021 EST
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81/badges/1599...

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos
Earned Dec 14, 2021 EST
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81/badges/1599...

Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Dec 13, 2021 EST
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81/badges/1599...
Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Earned Dec 12, 2021 EST
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81/badges/1596...
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Dec 11, 2021 EST
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f818c99f-4d46-4bda-ac8e-344ed89e8e81/badges/1595...

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