Finally, GKE-OP and Anthos 1.4 went GA today! Some super expected features came out: Updated to Kubernetes 1.16 Simplified upgrade Improved installation and cluster configuration Improved disaster recovery capabilities Enhanced monitoring with Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) Enables vSphere resource metrics collection by default! Support for a vSphere folder (Preview) – should help with narrowing previlages needed on vSphere! Improves the cluster scalability by supporting a maximum of 10 Release notes you can find here: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/rele ..read more

Download a free chapter on Cloud Monitoring of our study guide! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yJkv92Y6W1jJHpLx1JwdpTV7SVchsv90/view ..read more

It has been a while since I posted. Mainly due to the amount of work, publishing the book and PhD studies. This article is just an update on GCP certified swags original post. Two years go by very fast so I had to recertify almost all my credentials in GCP! I will put some more posts on the tips but this is not important today! Today I want to show the list of 2022 GCP swags! Here they are! Collaboration Engineer swags Security Engineer swags Update 7.02.22: I have just checked and some new swags popped up! Network Engineer swags also some updated for this exam in February: DevOps swags ..read more

We spent 2021 on updating our book for the Professional Cloud Architect exam! So many things have changed in those 2 years! While you wait for the new edition to be published. You can download a free chapter on Anthos here: https://authors.packtpub.com/professional-cloud-architect-certification/ The pre-orders are available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Cloud-Architect-Google-Certification-ebook/dp/B097HTXKRJ/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1640026489&refinements=p_27%3AKonrad+Clapa&s=books&sr=1-2 ..read more

Note: This is updated article „Getting all the 10/10 GCP certificates – how do I start?” So I finally made it all 11/11 ACTIVE GCP certs achieved! DISCLAIMER: Note this is not an official Google Guide how to get certified and I am explaining my own study path. I am receiving multiple questions on how to start GCP certification. I am not able to answer all of the queries, so I decided to put together info on the resources and methodologies I use. Enjoy! GCP certification seems to be on a massive demand these days! The Cloud Architect certificate was reported to be the best-paid certificate in t ..read more

After achieving all 11 GCP certificates I finally have unlocked access to all GCP certified swag! I will be updating the Swag Alert post shortly but wanted to share with you my top 4 swags. If you want to know how you u can get the swags check out the post: https://gcpfellow.com/2020/02/18/google-cloud-certified-swags/ NUMER 1 – Google Cloud Certified Fellow Patagonia jacket NUMBER 2 – Google Cloud Certified jacket from NEXT conference. NUMBER 4: Google Cloud ML Engineer vest (Marmot) NUMBER 4: Google Cloud Certified hoodie Let me know what is your favourite GCP certified swag ..read more

Learn how to use Google Cloud Workflows in minutes from my latest VLOG (premiere 19.01.2020). More links: Cloud Workflows at Next 2020 Cloud Workflows how-to guides Sample workflows ..read more

Google has update the Google Cloud Certified Cloud Developer (PCD) to new version. I had a chance to take the beta last week and must say the scope is finally very much developer focused. Be sure that you take first the PCA exam before you attempt this one. You need to be confident with all the GCP services to get to the next level. Have a look at my article for certification path: https://gcpfellow.com/2020/03/14/getting-all-the-10-10-gcp-certificates-how-do-i-start-part-1-x/ The PCD exam is very much focused on developer activities and includes topics like: Cloud Build Cloud Source Reposito ..read more

I took me over 4 months to nail this exam as I started from ground „Zero” The exam is 2h with 60 questions. The exam guide can be found here: https://cloud.google.com/certification/machine-learning-engineer together with recommended materials. I suggest you take the following path: Make sure you are at the PCA level with strong K8s background. Start with 101 Google ML Crash course (40h) https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course 2. Watch all the AI Adventures videos (20h) 3. Redo the with 101 Google ML Crash course (10h) 4. Go through the ML Coursera/PluralSights training ..read more

Today it is my 10th anniversary of starting my career at Atos Bydgoszcz. When I was 25years old I believed I will never spend more than 2 years in one company. Now I see how wrong I was. To make the story short I want to say don’t regret those 10 years and it has been an amazing experience working in a company with so many talented people on board! Today I don’t want to talk about my career but tell you how it started and why is stayed in one company for so long. When on the 4th grade of the Technical University the only knowledge I found might be useful was gained from the CCNA course… Looki ..read more