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You need to learn Google Cloud right now.

Why? Well Google, how to set up to be one of the highest paying skills and 2022. Look at that. It's the top two spots beating AWS. So yeah, it's worth paying attention to and you can learn it right now for free and a really awesome way on . I'm talking about is a fairly new thing called Google, Cloud skill badges, as a mouthful kind of and I actually just got one. It's on my Instagram profile. Check it out. I'm proud of it right here under licenses and certificates. If I click on see credential and boom that verifies. I know how to do something on Google Cloud, it verifies that skill I have. Now. Let me tell you getting, this was not easy, had to go through a lab and configure stuff and then they great at it. It was hard full disclosure. It took me a few tries, but it was awesome. It was fun. I was actually using No, but I did pass and now I know it. And I have a badge, a skill badge to prove it and I think you should get one too. Because it's free. Are you kidding me asterisk for 30 days. We'll talk about that. It's not a big deal. Trust me, but you know what? I'm not even sure you can't do it. It's probably too hard for you. Don't even try, I'm trying reverse psychology. It was, but let me know if it works. We're for real. Do this. Now, right now, before I show you how to do this, how to search Skilling yourself up in Google Cloud. Let's talk about why, why should you learn Google cloud? And why should you do it, right?

Now and also real quick Jabs, the sponsor this Write Up man's games will talk more about them later because you probably need it. Anyways. Let's talk about hey, what the junk is Google Cloud and why you need to learn it right now first and you may have guessed this. Google cloud is a cloud service provider and I don't know if you know this but cloud is kind of hot right now. In fact, it's been hot and it will continue to be hot as far enough. Lucky. It just is if you're an, IT learning cloud has become like the The thing you have to do now, as far as what is the cloud, I've talked about that a lot of my Instagram. So take me follow and DM for Help , but essentially it's just someone else's computer. So, when I was a server somewhere else, and you're paying that someone, in this case, Google to rent it, basically, instead of buying your own server, you're paying to redheads kind like a rental car but Google cloud or the Google Cloud platform. Often abbreviated gcp. It's one of three of the biggest players in the space. Well, one of four, if you consider China, but we'll talk about that later. The other two big players are AWS or Amazon web services and by the

They are the biggest, the heavyweight champion, the go to cloud provider. So they're in first place. And then at a pretty, Zion is Microsoft Azure. And yes that does mean Google. Cloud platform is in a third, the least popular of these two Cloud providers, but seriously, third place ain't too bad here. They are in the Gartner magic quadrant. If you're in a vast and they're growing like crazy. They increase their iaas revenue by 66 percent in 2020. So yeah, they are the smallest of the three but there's still big. So now that begs the question if TCP is the smallest of the three, why should you learn math overrated, us and Asher? You shouldn't wait. What, what I mean is you shouldn't just learn Google Cloud over AWS or Azure. You also shouldn't just learn ews over as your Google Cloud. You shouldn't just learn one, cloud provider, learn multiple. Learn. All three, a lot of companies now don't just have their stuff in one Cloud. They're doing what's called, multi-cloud, putting something in AWS, other things, in Azure and some other stuff in Google plopping out of your first thought, may have been Chuck. That's a lot. I can.

You will or three now. Are you kidding me? It's not as bad as it sounds, it does feel overwhelming at first, if you're just hearing this, I totally get that. But let me reassure you. Cloud provider. It's pretty stick. It easy to pick up the others. For example, I learned Azure as my first cloud, like a certified. I taught a course on it and then honestly picking up AWS and now Google Cloud was pretty stinkin easy. I mean, yeah, there were hard thing. So for the most part that heavy lifting was over because a lot of these foundational concept of what cloud is the Core Concepts like learning virtual machines and networking storage and even things like kubernetes. Those are remarkably similar across these three clouds. So, yeah, that was really my first main point is, don't just learn one. Don't One. But there is a point where you have to pick one right now. All right. Thank you have to learn your first Cloud. Why should gcp be your first cloud provider? Why learn Google first got the crazy? Real quick. Number one, learning a less popular skill, will make you more valuable to some companies. Think about if everyone has AWS or as your certifications that makes Google kind of rare and rare skills, usually equal more money because of their scarcity. Number two multi-cloud. We just talked about that. Even if a company is mainly an AWS shop. They may want to expand out to Google cloud and that means they're going to look for someone in Wes Google.

It's stinking free for the most part. Let's talk about that now come ring. Here we go. Let's talk about getting you skilled up and Google Cloud for free having trouble saying. Google cloud is kind of a tongue twister. But the first let me start with this. Google does have its own certification program just like AWS and Azure. If it looked at the associate level E WS has their AWS certified Solutions. Architect associate. That's what it is mouthful. Too much calm down AWS as your hazard as your administrator associate much easier say what can you just do that interview? Is that Google has something long after read it. Now the Google Certified associate Cloud engineer. So those are their Level two occasions. Now, the path to getting these certifications is not easy and involves learning a number of skills, and it does take time. And also getting certified isn't free. I know what you're thinking Chuck. You said this is free. I'll get to that. But the certifications, they're not free. Sure. You can find free training, but when it comes time to take that test, you got to pay for the test. The here we go. Here's the free part and I love Google for this, they do something unique something different that the others don't do. I think that's unique to them. Anyway for now, here's what they do. Along that path, that treacherous path to getting certified. They give you A chance to acquire skill badges for the individual skills. You will learn at each point. Let me show you. This is what it looks like here is Google's Cloud engineer, learning path. And I want you to notice a few things here. First of all, at the end, we're talking about getting that certification associate Clements of your certification exam. That's the goal. But along the way as you're learning, you can gather these skill badges. Look at these pit stops. You have each one of these its own individual batch that you can earn and show off the best part is these skill badges. You can get these for free.

Great out today. I just did it now. I'll show you how to do this and get access to everything. But first, let me tell you why. I love this two reasons. I'm sorry for being so aggressive. I'm excited. I love this. I love a Google's doing for one. It gives you Milestones, getting a certification is stinking hard. It's a long process. You have to learn a ton, and it can be kind of discouraging. It feels like a lot because it is a lot but had a smaller goals for skills that you can verify get a badge for is awesome. It's so encouraging. It keeps you motivated. You can show off your skills along the way. I love it.

Number two, you may not want an entire certification. You may not need one. You may just want to verify one skill that your job is looking for and with Google Cloud. You can do that which is so cool. Now. I don't want to discourage you from getting the certification, you should get a certification, but if you don't need it, or you can't afford. You'll have to get it. You just verify your skills with a badge. And again, I can't emphasize this enough. You can do this right now today. Like I knocked out one within a few hours. You can do it too. Okay. So now how do you do it? How do you sign up for this and get free access. Now, I mentioned earlier asterisk. It's free for 30 days. And that is true and after 30 days. Yeah. It's not a freedom. But before you get on that and say, all right, hold on, it's free to sign up. You have to put a credit card in like a cloud providers that know that it's free to sign up.

You ,Put your email in and then you try for 30 days to get as many skill badges for free, as you can, which I think is Pretty stinking. Awesome. In Google you to calls up their skills challenge. They want you to go crazy for 30 days and try to do this. By the way. I would love to see how many badges you can collect. Like you got nothing else going on. If you're not studying anything else dude, just go for it. But on your resume or LinkedIn. Go nuts. So anyways, let's try this right now. I want you to do it at least get signed up. I've got a link below and sign up for free, fill out the form and they'll send you an e-mail and this email will have an access code made a claim the offers a click.

Claim offer button. They send you use an access code to get access to stuff. That's stuff is a subscription you get for 30 days free again and you can do as many badges as your heart desires. Now, I do encourage you to start at the beginning and one of the first skill badges, you can earn is the create and manage Cloud resources. That's what I got. Let me show you what it looks like and legit. It's the coolest thing ever. They call these things Quest. And at the end of it, you can take their challenge lab and try to get your badge. And each Quest will have a lab, you have to complete. It will show you how to create a virtual machine, which by the way, you're not just like being told how to I do. Launches and it actually uses real Google cloud. Like, watch this. I'll click on open Google console and your had a log in, with a Google Cloud account that they provide as years, the username password, and Bam, I could start going crazy in this particular lab. They have, you opening up the cloud shell and I'll show you how to do some stuff. And then they have, you configure nginx web server. The coolest part is, once you do all that, you have to click on check my progress and actually checks your stuff, your project and test. If you did it, right, if you didn't do it right? Like watch, I didn't do anything and I'm going to check my progress. No, I didn't do it. So each lab is like this. This when I click on end, this Quest, teaches you quite a bit like Cloud shell and G cloud cover. Katie's you actually set up a kubernetes cluster, now, working load balancers. And then finally, you have this challenge lab, which kicked my butt. Let me show you. This one is a show you how to do thing. Just says, hey do this and then you have to verify so you have to actually configure kubernetes. You have to actually get think you're a load balancer. To give you an hour to do it. You have to complete it. How cool is that? And it's again it's free, which is kind of its kind of crazy because I don't know of any other vendor. That does something like this that gives you free.

Just to learning a lab that a verifies your skills with a batch. So, yeah, dude, just go for it. Go crazy. Get as many badges. As you can learn something new today right now and they'll sure after 30 days. Yeah, it's not free but it's like a cloud sign up, you know, put a credit card down here, are going to be charged anything and after your 30 days you can sign up for a subscription. Let me show you what it looks like. You can buy individual credits, you can get a subscription so that is available. But I think it's cool. Just for 30 days. You can go crazy and get some skills suit and 30 days. You can learn enough to

Take your certification exam if you want to, and then that will cost money obviously, but the learning process and all the badges that was free. Now. I know some of you are like, I don't have to learn this right now. Chuck stop saying right now, you know what you're right. So if you don't need to learn this right now because you've been kind of shirking, your other studies, haven't you? You know who you are. I'm talking to you. Been so yeah when I say right now, keep in mind some of you don't even do it right now. So if you need to finish your other stuff right now, also, some of you do need to study Google Cloud right now because maybe you've been lazy, even an order dated even playing too many video games making excuses. I've been there, dude. That's been me a lot of the time. No, shame. Just get up and change and why you should do it right now is

This could be the difference between you getting a. Raise a promotion, a new job. A whole stinkin new career for free. So just do it right now. Anyways, that's all I got. I've had way too much coffee, and let me know what you think. Are. You going to go for some Google skill for Google Cloud skill badges. Let me know. And if you do get some, please let me know in the comments. I want to see it. Let me know on Twitter Facebook, Instagram , whatever and also have you hacked algorithm today? Let's make sure you do. Hit that like button. Subscribe North keishon Belt again.

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