Christopher Holmes
Member since 2022
Cloud Hero: PCA Continuing Education Renewal
Earned Eyl 16, 2026 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Kas 21, 2025 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned Kas 21, 2025 EST
Google Cloud Ağınızı Geliştirme
Earned Tem 15, 2024 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Tem 15, 2024 EDT
Güvenli Bir Google Cloud Ağı Oluşturma
Earned Tem 3, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud'da Uygulama Geliştirme Ortamı Oluşturma
Earned Tem 1, 2024 EDT
Compute Engine İçin Cloud Load Balancing'i Uygulama
Earned May 30, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Haz 7, 2022 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Haz 6, 2022 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Haz 3, 2022 EDT
Compute Engine İçin Cloud Load Balancing'i Uygulama
Earned Haz 2, 2022 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos
Earned Haz 2, 2022 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Service Mesh with Anthos
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos
Earned May 16, 2022 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production
Earned May 13, 2022 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads
Earned May 9, 2022 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations
Earned May 6, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned May 6, 2022 EDT
Renew your Professional Cloud Architect certification through hands-on labs and friendly competition! This Cloud Hero challenge puts your skills to the test, putting your expertise into practice across two required labs. Earn points for accuracy, rack up bonus points for speed, and see where you stand on the leaderboard. Can you claim the top spot? **Critical Steps for Recertification:** To successfully recertify, you must link your Google Skills and CM Connect accounts, complete both labs in this game, and manually enroll in two required courses. How to enroll / steps (can be done before or after the game): Visit CertMetrics and click "Sign in with Google Skills" Click each course link below and click the "Start" button on the course page to enroll Course 1 Course 2 Come back to this page to start this game Complete the labs in the game to earn your renewal
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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Google Cloud Ağınızı Geliştirme kursunu tamamlayarak bir beceri rozeti kazanın. IAM rollerini keşfetme ve proje erişimi ekleme/kaldırma, VPC ağları oluşturma, Compute Engine sanal makinelerini dağıtma ve izleme, SQL sorguları yazma ve çeşitli dağıtım yaklaşımlarıyla Kubernetes'i kullanarak uygulama dağıtma gibi uygulamaları dağıtıp izlemeyle ilgili birden çok yöntemi öğreneceksiniz.
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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.
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Güvenli Bir Google Cloud Ağı Oluşturma kursunu tamamlayarak beceri rozeti kazanın. Bu kursta, Google Cloud'da uygulamalarınızı derlemek, ölçeklendirmek ve korumak için ağla ilgili birden fazla kaynak hakkında bilgi edineceksiniz.
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Google Cloud'da Uygulama Geliştirme Ortamı Oluşturma kursunu tamamlayarak beceri rozeti kazanın. Bu kursta Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions ve Pub/Sub gibi teknolojilerin temel özelliklerini kullanarak depolama odaklı bulut altyapısı oluşturma ve bu altyapıyla bağlantı kurmayı öğreneceksiniz.
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Giriş düzeyindeki Compute Engine İçin Cloud Load Balancing'i Uygulama beceri rozetini tamamlayarak şu konulardaki becerilerinizi gösterin: Compute Engine'de sanal makineler oluşturma ve dağıtma. Ağ ve uygulama yük dengeleyicileri yapılandırma.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine quest, where you learn about security at scale on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) including how to: migrate containers from virtual machines to Google Kubernetes Engine, restrict network connections in GKE using firewalls and Network Policies, use role-based access controls (RBAC) in GKE, use Binary Authorization for security controls of your images, secure applications in GKE using 3 access levels: host, network, Kubernetes API, and harden GKE cluster configurations. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.
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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.
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Giriş düzeyindeki Compute Engine İçin Cloud Load Balancing'i Uygulama beceri rozetini tamamlayarak şu konulardaki becerilerinizi gösterin: Compute Engine'de sanal makineler oluşturma ve dağıtma. Ağ ve uygulama yük dengeleyicileri yapılandırma.
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This on-demand course equips students to understand, configure, and maintain
multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructures using Anthos GKE, and Istio-based
service mesh, whether deployed with Anthos on Google Cloud or with Anthos
deployed on VMware.
This is the third, and final, course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud
Infrastructure with Anthos series.
Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a
prerequisite for this course.
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This on-demand course equips students to understand and adopt Istio-based
service-mesh with Anthos for centralized observability, traffic management,
and service-level security.
This is the second course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with
Anthos series. After completing this course, learners should continue to the
Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos course.
Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a
prerequisite for this course.
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Welcome to Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos!
This is the first course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos path. Anthos enables you to build and manage modern applications, and gives you the freedom to choose where to run them. Anthos gives you one consistent experience in both your on-premises and cloud environments.
During this course, you will be presented with modules that will take you through skills that you will use as an architect or administrator running Anthos environments. The modules in this course include videos, hands-on labs, and links to helpful documentation.
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In this course, you'll learn about Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security; logging and monitoring; and using Google Cloud managed storage and database services from within GKE.
This is the second course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process course or the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos course.
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In "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Workloads", you'll embark on a comprehensive journey into cloud-native application development. Throughout the learning experience, you'll explore Kubernetes operations, deployment management, GKE networking, and persistent storage. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Production course.
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In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations," you get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes.
This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads course.
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
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