What's your #GoogleClout?

[emily927]

Clout: noun, influence or power. Similar: mastery, stature, rank.

#GoogleClout: a friendly challenge to test your skills and get hands-on practice with Google Cloud services.
So grab a cup of coffee (or tea or water or whatever!) and put your skills to the test: 

goo.gle/38E88TV 

Then join the conversation and share your score here 👇 or on the social network of your choice. Complete all 5 challenges as the week goes on, and you'll earn the inaugural #GoogleClout badge! Good luck! 

PS: These are tough labs - Googling is encouraged 😉

[andrewbrown]

[Solved,No Spoilers] Google Clout Challenge: Cold Start Conundrum — Hints to Help you out

I believe I completed this challenge correctly but when I went to perform the check I received the feedback "Please verify an initial function 'slow-start has high slow-start time by testing using hey":

So here's the thing. I did do that, I opened Cloud Shell and it was the first thing I ran:

There is a Compute Engine that is in the account, and I thought maybe the system might have needed me run it over there, so I ssh, but discovered hey is not installed. You cannot install it via snap or apt.

I did open Cloud Shell in a new window so I'm sure if that matters.

I did rightsize the machine and get rid of the cold start. (omitting the steps not to spoil the answer.)

[Dmitry]

Had the same problem. Followed all the steps again and pressed the button only once at the end. It worked

[Cyclenerd]

I installed hey on the VM:

curl  https://hey-release.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hey_linux_amd64 -o hey
chmod +x hey
./hey --help

[stewartg]

Getting the same issue and attempted twice... using the Console and External access

[andrewbrown]

This might be a different problem, but one thing I noticed on my fast-start run, I had a 403 error meaning I did not have permission to invoke the function.

So I check permissions for gen1 and there are permissions to allUsers for Cloud Function Invoker

I see that permission is not here for my gen2 after I did a copy:

So I attempt to add it, yet I'm not allowed to....

Uncertain how to get that permissions in. GCP IAM permissions are very confusing.

[andrewbrown]

Okay, I'm not going to lie, this took me 8 attempts and 3 hours to solve.
So me focusing on the allUsers principle was a false flag.
 
Here are some hints to help you out:

hint 1: check to see if hey returns a 200 on the hot-start
hint 2: when copying a function, it will not set the exact same fields so double check every single setting
hint 3: look at the Service Account

[emily927]

Not gonna lie, took me a few (many) attempts too as we were working on this.... excellent hints, thank you for sharing 🙏😀

[imharry404]

hey @emily927 

last 2 labs are under maintenance, how can we complete this badge 🫠

please tell me, 

[andrewbrown]

They are released per day. So you need to wait Thursday and Friday

[emily927]

Exactly! Thanks @andrewbrown ! 

[andrewbrown]

If you're onto Challenge 3: BigQuery Remote Functions,

Here's a hint, go read the remote functions documentation page:
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/remote-functions

One other hint, you may need to use backticks to get valid SQL on the project id:

• `qwiklabs-gcp-01-fc2b6dd91315`.my_dataset.remote_function

[Cyclenerd]

Thanks for the tip. Helped me a lot. For me as an absolute BigQuery noob this page also helped me: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/datasets#create-dataset

And this is what it looks like when everything has worked:

[andrewbrown]

If you attempting Google Clout - Cloud Build - Deploy a Blog Site with Jekyll challenge today, a small correction in instructions


https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Learning-Forums/Read-Before-Google-Clout-Cloud-Build-Deploy-...

[horoszkiewicz]

Done 😀

Firewall Rules are Friends:

🟦🟦🟦🟦 4/4

Cold Start Conundrum score:

🟦🟦🟦🟦 4/4

BigQuery - Remote Functions score:

🟦🟦🟦🟦 4/4

Cloud Build - Deploy a Blog Site with Jekyl score:

🟦🟦🟦🟦 4/4

Workspace - Spreadsheet Automation score:

🟦🟦🟦🟦 4/4

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d7d741f4-b105-4c7f-aa98-add96ee4317d/badges/1834592

[emily927]

First badge I've seen - nice!! 🤩

[cloud-jake]

Awesome!  Are there any resources that you found particularly helpful for the Apps Script lab?  I don't have Javascript experience, so the reduce and flatMap portion is a hurdle.

[Robbie]

Im on the final challenge, at the last part where I need to update the javscript but I am lost here 😞 any hints on this part? hopefully i can figure this out

[Cyclenerd]

The best tip is at the end of the challenge description. You can rewrite the code. The important thing is the logging (outputs of the 'console.info' commands).

[Robbie]

Yeah this is rough. Ive done pretty much close to zero javascript before this. Been working on it all day. I think im making progress. Really wanna get this badge lol

[Cyclenerd]

Made it 😃. Many thanks to the Google team and @emily927 for the diverse challenges. I found the last Apps Script task the hardest because I've never worked with Google Workspace before. BigQuery and Firebase was also new to me. But in this case the good docs helped a lot.

🛡️ Happy about the new Badge: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ee90fab5-fe56-4266-9e02-1155300fa836/badges/1835... 

[cloud-jake]

Whew - that last one was challenging!  Finally completed #GoogleClout Set 1.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/c620b4f5-d355-4000-910a-6d6fd64d86ec/badges/1835...

[kenneth_mascare]

And done! Tricky part was getting the evaluation to verify as it expects an exact match for steps done to mark complete even if the exercise was completed logically.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/ddbd8de4-c366-4235-992d-0be1d467d80f/badges/1836...

[soldavid]

Got 4 out of 5... the last one AppScript code got the better of me... :'( 

[Abhishek213]

challenge ended or still running because I am unable to access the labs 

[soldavid]

Ended already

[brlikhon]

It's closed long ago

[david-asaf]

I was actually really looking forward to finishing this up (was through 3/5) but I didn't see an "end date" on the quest 😥. Any chance we can add that for the next one? 

Looking forward to the next one! 

[marcodipa]

The link doesn't work

[brlikhon]

Its closed.