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Jamie Thompson Google Cloud Advocate Blog

Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Network Engineer certification

This blog equips you with the knowledge and tools to tackle Google Cloud's Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification. Dive into exam essentials: Understand key skills tested and Google's expectations. Your study plan: Discover best practices, recommended resources, and practice tips. Insider knowledge: Gain insights on exam format, structure, and potential challenges. My experience: Learn from my journey and benefit from valuable advice I have gleaned after achieving this certification three times.

Posted on February 1, 2024

Last week I embarked upon my latest certification renewal- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer (PCNE). This was my third time certifying as a Professional Cloud Network Engineer having initially passed in January 2020, renewed in 2022, and again in 2024. The exam had been updated this time, so it... [Read More]
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Simplifying data ingestion with Google Cloud's Pub/Sub BigQuery Subscriptions

In this blog I cover how to implement a simple data ingestion pipeline using Google Cloud Pub/Sub's BigQuery Subscription service including example Terraform code.

Posted on December 8, 2023

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Identifying and troubleshooting issues in GCP Projects with gcpdiag.

In this blog I cover the open source tool gcpdiag that helps identify misconfigurations and best practices across a range of Google Cloud offerings including GCE, GKE, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL...

Posted on May 5, 2023

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Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) certification

In this blog I cover Google Cloud’s Professional Cloud Architect certification and offer my advice and guidance on preparing to become a certified Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Posted on February 28, 2023

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Workload Identity

In this blog I provide an overview of how to securely access Google Cloud resources from your containerised workloads running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Workload Identity, why this approach is the recommended method, how to configure Workload Identity with both gcloud commands and Terraform code, and call out some of the risks associated with the alternate methods accessing Google Cloud resources.

Posted on February 17, 2023

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