Hints and Tips for Coursera Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
By: Bruce H. Cottman
Tags: Cloud Computing, Learning, Certification, Course, Google Cloud Platform

I recommend Architecting with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Developing applications with GCP Courseraspecializations. Going through these specializations will significantly help you obtain the Google Cloud Architect certification or Google Cloud Developer certification. More importantly, the hands-on labs enable you to build GCPapplications.

The course, Coursera Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure, is first of the five courses in Cloud Engineering with Google Cloud specialization and first of the six courses of Cloud Architecture with Google Cloud Professional Certificate specialization.

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate and Cloud Architecture with Google Cloud Professional Certificate share the first three classes.

The Coursera Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure class consists of five essential services:

Virtual Machines: Compute Engine (IaaS); Use Profiles and Network: IAM and VPV; Storage, BigTable, SQL, Spanner; Containers and Load Balancing: Kubernetes Engine. Supply the code all Services provided: AppEngine (PaaS)

The blog assumes an advanced level of prior knowledge. Below I list terms that are outside the scope of the blog.

The summary is a broader list of Linux/Unix commands, applications, and GCP command-line applications.

Links are given for some general terms you need:

Anthos;

A WS EC2 ;

Cloud Computing;

Cluster;

data encryption and encryption key management [ 2 ];

]; Docker [4,5,6,7] ;

; key, key code, key management [ 8 ];

]; Security key part or key pair [9].

Creating a free account

You get $300 in credit for 90 days per account.

Using your free account

You will not use your new free account for the labs.

Hint: Anti-spoiler alert. If you think some of the hints are spoilers or cheats, they are not. Please read all the hints. Tip: Not really a tip but a feature of GCS. The feature is that Google wants you to learn how to use GCS. Tip: Every lab is in QwikLabs. At the beginning of QuikLabs, a new account is created without requiring a credit card. You are given full access and use to the GCP Console, gcloud, and gstart. Tip: A QwikLabs is 30 minutes long. Lab sessions can be restarted, whether you fail or succeed. However, services and resources created are deleted at the end of the timed session. The time length is usually long enough for short experiments. Tip: You can use GCS Colab with a GPU or a TPU for free. You do not have to pay Coursera $50 per month to use the “free” QuikLabs.

Google Cloud Platform networking and operational tools and services

Compute Engine Service — The base compute component.

The GCP Compute Engine Service is for launching one to a fleet of clusters of virtual machines.

Tip: You can use other browsers, but all lab videos use Chrome. Tip: Now how to use incognito window in Chrome browser. Tip: Your local terminal use of ssh of an AWS EC2 instance requires you to:

Log in to the AWS console. Open up the specific EC2 key pair, note the key pair, and note the external IP address (Considered as one step if you neural atypical). Launch a local terminal.

3. log in using ssh , keypair, and IP address;

Opening up an ssh session in GCP reduces to one step.

Login to the GCP console. open up the specific GCS Compute Engine instance dashboard and click on the ssh icon. (Considered as one step if you neural typical).

Tip: The select tool that starts the lab. The icon you click is at the bottom of the page after Coursera'’ Honor Code box.

Figure 1.

Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure>Week 1>Lab 3: Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL.

Tip: Memorize the table of GCP Cloud storage types and how they differ from each. Tip: You need to know SQL’s basics to perform Lab 3 and understand what you are doing. Tip: Lab 3 is longer and more complex. It gives you up to fifty minutes on timed Lab 3. You will need all time to complete all 6 steps. Tip: The last two of six steps are optional. Tip: If you run out of time, if you show 15/15 in an orange rectangle, located in the top right-hand corner, you will receive 100% on the quiz.

Summary

Tip: All labs are clicks and cut&paste. Hint: You spend a considerable amount of time in a Linux/Unix shell. You need to know Linux/Unix commands: >>, bash, cd, chmod, cp, curl, dd, export, grep, kill, ls, nano, sed, sudo touch. Hint:. You should know the following network and internet terms: DNS, http:, https, IP, TCP, UDP, URL, virtual private network. Hint:. You should know what is and when to use the GCP shell commands: gcloud, gsutil, kubectl. Hint:. You should be familiar with the following Linux/Linux applications: apt-get, git clone, gzip, Nginx, pip install, python, virtualenv, yams.

Yeah!!

I hope this blog is of help in going through Coursera Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure.