About FortiGate-VM for GCP
By combining stateful inspection with a comprehensive suite of powerful security features, FortiGate Next Generation Firewall technology delivers complete content and network protection. This solution is available for deployment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
There are several ways to deploy FortiGate-VM on GCP:
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Google Cloud Marketplace |
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Google Cloud Compute Engine |
Deploy a FortiGate-VM instance on Google Cloud Compute Engine from the custom image without using the Google Cloud Platform marketplace. See Deploying FortiGate-VM on Google Cloud Compute Engine. You must deploy FortiGate in this method when:
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Google Cloud SDK |
Deploy a FortiGate-VM (BYOL) instance by using the Google Cloud SDK on your local PC. This is a method of deploying FortiGate-VM on GCP outside of the marketplace product listing and without creating an instance on the Google Cloud Compute Portal. This method also allows assigning multiple network interfaces to the VM instance. See Deploying FortiGate-VM using Google Cloud SDK. |