Name: Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Brand: Google Cloud
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.7 (806 reviews)

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

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5.0Reviewed Apr 17, 2020

This course is an eye-opener to automation and scaling in GCP. I learned to use Terraform an the Deployment manager even though I had a little challenge with the latter. Thank

5.0Reviewed Jul 16, 2019

A good understanding of networking on GCP. Also elaborate knowledge on infrastructure auto scaling. Got some idea about deployment manager and infrastructure as a code concepts.

5.0Reviewed May 11, 2020

I really like the course content it was very helpful to get hands on load balancers and infrastructure automation using Terraform and google deployment manager

5.0Reviewed Oct 10, 2019

The labs in this course were a lot of fun. Deployment Manager and Terraform are two systems that I have been interested in for awhile and it was great actually building (small) things out with them.

4.0Reviewed Jun 25, 2020

very good to connect all the information I have so far, good labs and well structure. however, I would have prefered to be a bit more complex but this is just me. Good job !

4.0Reviewed Nov 5, 2019

Great content. The labs for using Terraform and Deployment Manager were interesting. My only peeve with the content is that is the 720p videos look grainy. Please upload higher quality videos.

5.0Reviewed Jul 9, 2020

I really enjoyed learning how to use languages like yaml and jinja2 to build clusters. The http(s) load balancer tutorial was neat too. Thank you Phillip and Priyanka!

4.0Reviewed May 24, 2019

Perhaps a little more hands-on would be useful. The managed services section was way too terse...IMO more description of the various services would be useful.

5.0Reviewed Nov 9, 2018

This has been the most fun course to learn in this series. The amount of relevant material and references in the resources section is just perfect! Thank you Mylene Biddle!! Please do more

5.0Reviewed Nov 17, 2017

Lots of content on scaling and automating the deployment of cloud infrastructure on GCP. Also covers some of the managed service offerings on GCP such as Hadoop.

5.0Reviewed Nov 25, 2017

Solid course, once again gets a bit deeper into the interesting parts about working at scale (automation, auto-scaling) and touches on some of the data based manages services.

4.0Reviewed May 9, 2020

First half really useful, but then it gets kind of theoretical and surface level for the second half, especially the managed service section where there is not one lab.

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keith sanderlin

3.0

Reviewed Sep 24, 2018

instructor reading powerpoints is less engaging than some of the earlier classes in this specialization.

Thanapong Boontaeng

2.0

Reviewed May 12, 2019

The instructor speaks too fast, and basically repeats the text in the slides. Need to read the pdf by myself. Labs are quite useful though.

Jeff Washburn

2.0

Reviewed Oct 4, 2018

The instructor seemed to fly through the material. What's the hurry?

Rishikesh Bajpai

5.0

Reviewed Mar 14, 2019

Course content is good However I would be more happy if it has given by Jason, or Philip Maier. I like those guys very much how they deliver the content, never have to go back and look again...

Sergio Daly

4.0

Reviewed Mar 18, 2019

"Lab Google Cloud Platform API Infrastructure Automation" uses a deprecated command line tool (bdutil) and a deprecated Compute Engine image (https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-8-jessie-v20180611).

Sebastiaan Pfennigwerth

3.0

Reviewed Sep 12, 2018

Overwhelming amount of info squished into one course. Hope the documentation is good on this one.

Daniel Bonini

5.0

Reviewed Apr 8, 2019

Excellent course

Niels van Bree

4.0

Reviewed Dec 1, 2018

The talking was sometimes too fast in comparison to the amount of text on the slides, which made me pause the videos quite a lot.

Punko Ivan

4.0

Reviewed Oct 25, 2018

It's absolute mess when when we're talking about VPC and VPN.

Karlos knox

3.0

Reviewed Sep 10, 2018

the information provided was great but the way it was provided is in the same way I could have read it to myself. It didn't seem like the instructor had real world experience with GCP products and resources that they covering. There was no audible pauses at the key inflection points during context overviews. This made every word seem the same. They also spoke very fast, I usually watch most videos at double speed and it was hard to keep up the concepts. There was not realization of when the brain needed to switch mental models, the information just keeps flowing in this course.

Thanks for the course.

Alex Krimkevich

3.0

Reviewed Jul 25, 2017

The networking labs were very good, but the rest of the course felt less like education and more like an extended pitch for Google products.

Elizabeth Neri

5.0

Reviewed Jul 25, 2021

I thoroughly enjoyed learning and demoing the different options in GCP and Terraform in deployment as well as learning about Googles managed services. I hope to continue on with the same success and knowledge with the next couple of courses so that I may pass my certification exam.

Chris Ratchford

5.0

Reviewed May 23, 2018

This was a great course. It moved a little fast but the labs were very detailed. The course helped me learn to navigate a number concepts and also made me aware of other areas where I will dig deeper.

Scott Burns

5.0

Reviewed Oct 10, 2019

The labs in this course were a lot of fun. Deployment Manager and Terraform are two systems that I have been interested in for awhile and it was great actually building (small) things out with them.

Rohit Kumar Agarwal

4.0

Reviewed Aug 1, 2018

The presenter was running through the slide with giving enough time to go through the content.

Jerry D. Odenwelder Jr

4.0

Reviewed Aug 10, 2018

Some of the information was presented too quickly making it hard to follow

Munichandra obbu

4.0

Reviewed Oct 13, 2018

provide additional lab hours for more practice