Google Cloud SDK
You can deploy FortiGate-VM (bring your own license (BYOL)) 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.
For details, see Cloud SDK.
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This deployment method only applies for BYOL. |
This deployment consists of the following steps:
- Obtaining the deployment image
- Uploading the deployment image to Google Cloud
- Creating a FortiGate custom image
- Deploying a FortiGate-VM instance
- Bootstrapping FortiGate at initial bootup
- Confidential computing
Deploying a FortiGate-VM on a T2A instanceprovides information about deploying FortiGate-VM using a GCP T2A instance.