Copied private images

To create a private copy of a public FortiGate GCP image with additional flags, issuing a single gcloud command is sufficient: gcloud compute images create fgt-72-multi-ip --source-image-family fortigate-72-byol –source-image-project fortigcp-project-001 --guest-os-features=MULTI_IP_SUBNET

You can download a VM image from the Fortinet Support site. The following provides instructions for using one as a base image for creating a VM instance in GCP.

To use a downloaded image as a base image for VM instance creation in GCP:

1. Download the image from Fortinet Support site. The file name should end with .tar.gz
2. In the GCP console, go to Cloud Storage and create a new bucket.
3. Click Upload files and upload the *.tar.gz file downloaded from Fortinet website.
4. Once uploaded, go to Compute > Images and click the Create image icon at the top.
5. Select Cloud storage file as the source.
6. Do one of the following:
   1. Browse the cloud storage and select the file.
   2. Issue the following command to provide the cloud storage path to the file: gcloud compute images create fgt-private-image --source-uri=gs://STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME/FORTIGATE_IMAGE.out.gcp.tar.gz