All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress!

emily927 · 12-10-2021 07:21 AM

📣 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…

Complete a Google Cloud skill badge or quest this week (badge must be dated between now and Dec. 18, no exceptions).
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:

A link to your Skills Boost profile showing your new badge (sorry, badges earned outside the challenge timeline don’t qualify!)
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

What if I earn multiple badges?

Great! You can post multiple badges if you like but only one post is eligible.

Where do I post my comment?

Reply to this post. Any posts outside of this thread will not be considered.

What if I am #51?

You missed this one but never fear. Stay tuned for next week’s challenge!

What if I don’t want to post a link to my Skills Boost profile?

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.

What if I don’t want to post in the GCC?

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.

What if I have a question about the gift?

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!

glen_yu

#QwiklabsExpress

(it's the wrong holiday, I know -_-")

SONALIG2019

I got exposure of google cloud via qwiklabs. It has been a great time learning something new everytime from google cloud labs and feeling lucky being a part of google cloud community.

anilpatidar0002

Share anyone of the complete lab badges and share public profile as well as.

ApoorvaK

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/aa536343-f6f8-4d02-a92b-2c25a71195ae/badges/1611771

I m grateful to share that i have completed this Quest from Google named Google Cloud Essentials with no prior knowledge and practical experience.From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing was a great experience exploring it all.

my profile is https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/aa536343-f6f8-4d02-a92b-2c25a71195ae

do like my comment pls

I

Harx_08

Awesome.. Apoorva🤩

Rohit1997

very nice to see u little one

Chaitanyasai

My Qwiklab Public Profile:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/26e85539-1f69-4c28-8c65-4d5cff92735f

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.

ajboss19

yours will not be counted as it is a reply

MANOJ_ALLADAWAR

Do you have asked for token or credit while completing the google cloud essential. At the time of creating instance lab asking me for token or credit. Can pls help me how to complete labs without token or free.Thank you.

Sarvang

#QwiklabsExpress

Aqiry1

Waiting eagerly to learn what’s next ☺️

Abhishek213

Excited 😄

abhinandan

I dont think this event will have swags.

Abhishek213

Doesn't matter

I am participating since last 1 yr in all events without swags 😂😂

I even didn't knew that learn to earn game will be having swags prizes

I love qwiklabs 😁

anandmisra

Yeah!! The best part is that we get to explore new corners of GCP

Abhishek213

Yeah

smit1408

can u tell me how to participate in this express event?

anandmisra

You have to complete a badge in this week. And after completing do reply in this thread sharing your cloud skill boost profile link and what new things you have learnt from it.

And do check all the instructions here.

AyushShinde

Bro how do you got to know about these events? any website?

imhardikdesai

Swags will be get those 50 people who comment their badge link and what you learn from lab. #Qwicklab

emily927

Update! Check the original post for something new 🙂🎄

shuvadeep1997

My Qwiklab Public Profile:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0a60783b-1207-40f7-a965-d3e8a5be7aa0

Google Cloud Essentials badge Complete Link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0a60783b-1207-40f7-a965-d3e8a5be7aa0/badges/1603...

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.

pinumalla

good job!!

trivedi2u

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/a3c348e0-5555-4a78-b374-4e66b8aaae16

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a3c348e0-5555-4a78-b374-4e66b8aaae16

#QwiklabsExpress!

I would like to show all of you my recently earned badge name Confluent on Google Cloud and Exploring data with Locker.
while performing this lab i got to learn about much things like creating load balancer, virtual machine, about qwik start about the basics of some Google cloud also.

Asi123

My Qwiklab Public Profile:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/472d6b01-b022-475d-b9bc-81371f6d745e

anjali_p-7

#QwiklabsExpress

@emily927 Today I'm so excited to announce that I have completed the quest and earned my very first badge from the Google Cloud Platforms!! The Hands-on Labs made concepts much more understandable. The Badge I earned was the introductory Hands- on labs on "Google Cloud Essentials". I learnt plenty of things about Google Cloud Platforms. I am honored that I have learnt from the "Google Community" and looking forward to know more about Google Cloud.

Following is my Badge URL kindly have a look:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c5c069df-a9fb-45db-8d9a-84ede86d3ba0/badges/1605...

My public profile link:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c5c069df-a9fb-45db-8d9a-84ede86d3ba0

Thank you!!

arya

hi Emily,

this lab is not working properly, I did the same way its shown. Please look into it

"Data , ML, and AI tasks in Google cloud: Challenge lab."

emily927

Yikes! Any issues with labs not working properly, please reach out to our excellent support team. There are a couple options for doing so directly within the platform.

Thx for stopping by!

prasannak211

Yes 🤔

Juneezee

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6272b061-5391-466e-b6dc-2610bd525a1f

This is my first hands-on on Apache Kafka and Confluent. The labs had given me insights on how Event-driven architecture can be performant and scalable in a microservice environment.

I have been doing the traditional request-response model on several microservice services on my workspace. Maybe now it's a good time to try something new!

pinumalla

what difficult you faced on completing the badge ?

rajsaurabh1000

@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 "Networking in Google Cloud" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile, https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/9d36183c-3f29-459b-8bd1-71ff7b7cb128

In this Quest, I learnt about the User Authentication (how to restrict access selected authenticated users with Identity-Aware Proxy), how to create Multiple VPC Networks and Perform Control Accessing, HTTP Load balancer and Internal Load Balancer and finally completed the lab challenge, Google Cloud Packet Mirroring with OpenSource IDS.

Once again Thanks to Google Cloud for launching the #QwiklabsExpress! Hoping to get dm asap, excited for the prize. 😂

Thanks all!

Saurabh

TusharJB007

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/defc3fae-64da-43da-84f9-8421b64ca8e7

Earning this badge cleared my doubts regarding the basic concepts of GCP. In this I got hands-on lab experience in creating and managing VM Instances.

Abhishek213

Learning never ends in the life of a true learner. Therefore, this time I decided to learn about some of the apps we use everyday like Gmail , Google Meet , and Google Drive and how they work and discovered some hidden tricks such as how to connect with databases and import/export all our contacts. After completing the quest as you know I couldn't resist myself trying another so I moved to Intro to ML: Image Processing quest In this quest I learnt how an ML model detects texts , landmarks like Google lenses, how it turns images into text, translates

Thanks @emily927 Emily keep bringing such challenges. I love a lot participating in every event at qwiklabs

Qwiklabs profile link - https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f99cc491-0ef7-4f3f-85f5-d7d5c388e86c

Abhishek213

@emily927 @Yugali can you check is everything fine with my entry

rushiquick

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress!

Hey Google Cloud Community!

My Profile

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/b14faebc-c8e7-45e1-be3d-509f8c6fc630?qlcampaign=...

Badge Earned

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/b14faebc-c8e7-45e1-be3d-509f8c6fc630/badges/1598...

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.

sr1349

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress!

I just completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion badge. The link of my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8068f026-b108-454d-8420-42737175bc16

I learned about A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs, Creating a Virtual Machine, Getting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloud, Kubernetes Engine: Qwik Start, Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers. It was an awesome learning experience.

And Thanks @emily927 for keep bringing such challenges.

Thank you!

Aqiry1

Click here for my Skills Boost profile showing my new badge:- Click Here

It's always an experience to learn from Qwiklabs and our motivator @emily927 (who always motivates us with all the enthusiasm🤗). This is a perfect winter with Qwiklabs credits as we have a lot of time on our hands during these coming holidays.

For this week I learned Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services, and some practical experience that I can apply to my first Google Cloud project like writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying my first virtual machine, running applications on Kubernetes Engine, and even with load balancing. I loved using Google Kubernetes Engine as it provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling my containerized applications using Google infrastructure and I learned how to deploy a containerized application with Kubernetes Engine.

itsundef

Badge

Explored basic stuff. 🙄