Very useful course, thanks Google and the Coursera! Really good job.
My brief summary:
IT Automation: It’s not that scary!
General knowlege – super useful concepts, ideas, experiences and best practices
Ruby – I love this language, “coding is a feature of IT” with such languages
Git – fantastic and very useful, began to use immediately after passing the week
Chef – a little lame with bash scripts. Also mandatory chef client excludes many devices (like network devices) from automation
Monitoring (prometheus, grafana, alerts) and testing (blackbox/whitebox) – new tools and theoretical knowledge
Linux, Bash, Regexp – learned some new stuff
Лабы
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Очень понравились лабы – они реально основаны на практике, полезные для развития и довольно удобны. Google щедр и спокойно дает на время хоть 10 виртуалок с белыми IP, 10 ГБ HDD, 4 GB RAM.
