Certifications: Google Cloud Platform
Now that I am done with my MBA (Information Systems), I’m attempting to focus on some certifications. I currently have ~26 from industry, academia, and professional organizations.
I’ve started studying for newest Apple certification and have been reviewing both Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services AWS certifications for cloud computing. DePaul University also has a cloud computing concepts certification available through the Institute of Professional Development that covers all of them, which might be the most tempting out of all of them. However, after a free Google Cloud webinar, I was offered $300 in free credits to evaluate / study for a GCP certification. For me, the Professional track seems best. I’m using this blog post to track my progress. Should be fun! Not to sound lame, I did build out my own cloud-like environment when I worked in IT 2009–2011 when I did a colocation project. This should be a refresher or maybe I’ll learn a “correct” method since at that time I was using my masters degree studies, Google Search, and listservs/forums to answer my questions.
I successfully spun up a VM instance in Google Compute to get started, via the handy tutorial. In setting up the web server, the next step was to create a private key using Google’s Cloud Shell.
So far, it seemed to work but there is an authentication error to fetch resources. That could be in the next or upcoming steps.
Next, to create the web server…
