Cloud Fest
Every once in a while a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. As truly said, the advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. When it comes to business IT, there is perhaps no more common topic of conversation than cloud computing, just because it’s at the top of modern discussions doesn’t change the fact that most students have no idea what the fuss is all about. First to mind when asked what ‘the cloud’ is, a majority respond it’s either an actual cloud, the sky, or something related to weather.” Sad, but true. The name itself giving a vibe of technology, Let’s take an analogy of cloud with cloud when the air condenses to form tiny water droplets cloud is made. It is not a fixed structure, sometimes it is present sometimes it gets disappear. In the same way, users are present or absent as per
the requirement. The cloud shower the rain, and lands up to the people, in the same way, cloud technology gives services to all of them. Online gaming through cloud computing is a cliche example.
We believe we’re moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, your podcast, you transact, you distance learn, your telemedicine. You are participating in the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes into the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin’ Webtone witch. Unlike 4G and previous generations of technology, 5G is very different. It is not just about radio. It stands across the full network from mobile access to cloud core, from software-defined networking to all forms of backhaul, front haul, IP routing, fixed network, software, and more.
If you’re still wrapping your mind around the cloud, have a look at what Steve Jobs, Late Chairman and Co-Founder of Apple says about cloud computing — “I don’t need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster… carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.”
Cloud computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged years ago before we could afford our computers. The idea is to share computing power among many companies and people, thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those who leverage it. As businesses ratchet up their use of cloud services, they’re going to struggle with similar problems, sometimes on a much greater scale. I don’t see any way around this — it’s the price we pay for the convenience of centralized apps and databases — but it’s worth keeping in mind that in the cloud we’re all guinea pigs, and that means we’re all dispensable. The appeal of wearable technology is down to the rich data generated by the devices, which is stored and analyzed in the cloud. The most intricate and cliche quote goes well here,
“We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users”
~Jeff Atwood.
The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essentials quest requires no prerequisites or background knowledge in the field of cloud computation. Everyone starts somewhere, and Qwiklabs is excited to help you take that first step. This series of hands-on labs offered in this beginner’s course are accessible, easy to navigate, and pretty fun to complete — no matter how novice a learner might be, you can finish the GCP Essentials quest and earn your first Google Cloud badge in one day!
The hands-on session with Qwiklabs, it is the fastest and coolest way to get experience with cloud development. All the attendees get complimentary 1- month all-access pass to Qwiklabs to use even after the event. (A $55 value).
First, an introduction to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Users are given plenty of time to learn the ins and outs of operating the platform’s console. A Tour of Qwiklabs and the Google Cloud Platform includes an introduction of basic features like Admin, Project Info, and Billing. It’s a stylish home base for all your GCP learning. The heft of the learning is done in the Cloud Shell, which lets users work out any coding they’re learning in an easy-to-use
(and easy to correct!) application.
Starting with a confession; I’m not the most technologically gifted. When I started my Qwiklabs tutorial on Google Cloud Platform’s essential tools and services, I was nervous I wouldn’t be able to keep up with all the Cloud has to offer. But as an adage says, technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Cloud Shell is a major help in learning how to create a Virtual Machine. This lab lets you run a plethora of different operating systems (five different types of Linux alone!) as you create and deploy web servers. Grow confident in connecting your cloud with other external resources online, and stake a claim on their corner of the internet with the Google Cloud Marketplace, which teaches our learners to build operating systems and databases of their own.
In addition to the detailed instructions that break even the trickiest conceptions into understandable steps, there’s plenty of instructional videos sprinkled throughout the series to help you build persistent disks, run your code on Kubernetes, and set up network and HTTP load balancers to support your applications. It was thrilling to finish a lab and feel the satisfaction of building something both useful and user-friendly — I even got a cool badge out of it.
APIs allow you to access Google Cloud features and data from your application. The labs in this quest will equip you to build complex scenarios to take advantage of GCP’s powerful compute tools. The APIs Explorer gives you a quick and easy way to create complex API calls, even if you don’t consider yourself an API expert.
The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud services hosted on Google’s infrastructure. From computing and storage, data analytics, machine learning, and networking, GCP offers a wide variety of services and APIs that can be integrated with any cloud-computing application or project — be it personal or enterprise-grade.
In this introductory-level lab, you will take your first steps with GCP by getting hands-on practice with the Google Cloud Platform console — and in-browser UI that lets you access and manage Google Cloud services. You will identify key features of GCP and also learn the ins and outs of the Qwiklabs environment.
What you will learn :
· Learn about the Qwiklabs platform and identify key features of a lab environment.
· Learn about (and possibly purchase) Qwiklabs credits and launch an instance of a lab.
· Learn how to access the GCP console with specific credentials.
· Learn about GCP projects and identify common misconceptions that surround them.
· Learn how to use the GCP navigation menu to identify types of GCP services.
· Learn about primitive roles and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users.
· Learn about Cloud Shell and run commands that use the gcloud toolkit.
· Learn about the API library and examine its chief features. Use tools that are pre-installed in Cloud Shell and run commands like touch, nano, and cat to create, edit, and output the content of files.
These are some glimpses of the previous Cloud Fest.
Parth commenced the cloudfest with an introduction to the cloud computing world.
Vivek is the next to take up the podium started lab sessions with scrupulosity and authenticity stepwise. He highlighted the quotidian concerns with germane to the theme.
There are usually three models of cloud service to compare: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
SaaS — Google Apps, Dropbox, Salesforce, Cisco WebEx, Concur, GoToMeeting.
PaaS — AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Windows Azure, Heroku, Force.com, Google App Engine, Apache Stratos, OpenShift.
IaaS — DigitalOcean, Linode, Rackspace, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Metapod, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine (GCE).
Building a scalable system to support this workload is no small feat. In addition to being able to process high data volumes per each customer, we also need to process hundreds of millions of users every month, plus any traffic spikes that happen during peak shopping seasons.
Embrace constraints, To increase our development velocity and stay flexible, we decided to trade off control over our development stack and embrace constraints imposed by managed cloud services. Simplicity is all about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
Whether you’re identifying pet breeds or landing a new job, complete the quest and add the badge to your resume.
Good luck!
