Wish you all a very happy new year 2021. Stay safe and healthy.
First of all, apologies for not being regular in blogs. Ideally, I would like to blame it squarely on the dreaded ‘covid-19’ but in the balance of probability the real reasons lie some-where in between ‘snowed under work’, ‘forgetting the WP-admin password – yes that was a real state of affairs and lasted for a fair amount of time’ or ‘Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and BBC drams (my favourites)’. I blame WFH (working from home) as the driver for the last option. and am sticking to it.
GCP Certified
Nevertheless, yours truly is now focussed on setting things right and getting back on the saddle. In that respect, have managed to add another feather to my cap – as of 9th January, I am Google Certified Professions Architect.
Tell you what, compared to MSFT exams, the GCP one did make me sweat a bit. Darn, and I thought I knew cloud. One thing that stood out was that, invariably, in each question, it appeared that two options were correct! And that meant reading the question umpteenth time to ensure I was making an educated guesstimate! The good news is yours truly managed to passed on the first attempt but one piece of suggestion to Google: Please provide some feedback and topic wise performance – like MSFT does. At least it will allow everyone to recognise the gaps where further learning is required.
Upcoming Plan and Projects
Moving on the plan is to initiate and complete following two project in the next six weeks:
- Creating XML files to generate Azure Rate card.
- I was recently involved with a customer in cloud optimization and cost reduction exercise and one of the first thing I had to dust-off and re-create was an Azure Rate Card for specific region, for specific resources and output it as a CSV file. The project show-cases how-to go about achieving the objective
- Failover architecture between cloud providers.
- The blogs that you are seeing (blogs.ninadkanthi.com) is running on MSFT Azure and truth be told, its running on a single instance stack – meaning no failover or maintenance window is supported. With the Google certification under our belt, it’s all but natural that we will provision DR/HA scenario with secondary being deployed in GCP. And as it’s a live site, will also mention about live migration.
Stay tuned …