Twenty-First Google Cloud Jumpstart Session Recap: Multicloud Matters

Hey everybody! I am back with a brand-new installment. This time I have had a session with someone initially about Terraform. I have learned so much about Terraform and the cloud business.

I introduce myself telling him about the GCP Jumpstart program since he does not know anything about me. Then we get into Terraform.

Here’s what I’ve learned about Terraform

• Mostly enterprise companies use it because they have many environments to maintain. Small and medium-sized companies just copy and paste the same image because they have only 1–2 environments to maintain.
• Ansible is through Red Hat which also does Linux
• My having working knowledge and experience is enough. Certification would be for larger companies.

Then conversation turns to him. He manages pre-sales engineers. These are the people who are subject matter experts and support the sales teams. His pre-sales engineers have controlled demo environment and do not run anything in the production environment like the service delivery team. They run live production and deployment environments.

This is a huge development for me because I have been doing both. I have the product knowledge but also deploy solutions. Now I will…