Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate

• Automate tasks by writing Python scripts
• Use Git and GitHub for version control
• Manage IT resources at scale, both for physical machines and virtual machines in the cloud
• Analyze real-world IT problems and implement the appropriate strategies to solve those problems

Modules

Crash Course on Python

• Understand what Python is and why Python is relevant to automation
• Write short Python scripts to perform automated actions
• Understand how to use the basic Python structures: strings, lists, and dictionaries
• Create your own Python objects

Using Python to Interact with the Operating System

• Setup, configure, and use your own developer environment in Python
• Manipulate files and processes
• Understand and use regular expressions (regex), a powerful tool for processing text files
• Know when to choose Bash or Python, and create small scripts using Bash

Introduction to Git and GitHub

• Understand why version control is a fundamental tool for coding and collaboration
• Install and run Git on your local machine
• Use and interact with GitHub
• Collaborate with others through remote repositories

Troubleshooting and Debugging Techniques

• Analyze real-world IT problems and implement the appropriate strategies to solve those problems
• Demonstrate techniques to quickly find and solve the root cause of problems in IT infrastructure
• Understand the root cause for problems related to speed, crashes, or exhausted resources in your computer
• Identify the most common pitfalls of your code and how to fix them

Configuration Management and the Cloud

• Understand the benefits of configuration management and infrastructure as code
• Create and maintain containers with Docker and Kubernetes to create efficient and safe application deployment
• Automatically deploy new virtual machines running in the Cloud
• Deploy changes in a safe manner following CI/CD principles

Automating Real-World Tasks with Python

• Use Python external libraries to create and modify documents, images, and messages
• Understand and use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to interact with web services
• Understand and use data serialization to send messages between running programs
• Build a solution using the skills you have learned