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GCP Administration Guide

Requirements

Requirements

Installing and configuring FortiGate autoscale for GCP requires knowledge of the following:

  • Configuring a FortiGate using the command line interface
  • GCP
  • Terraform 0.12

It is expected that DevOps engineers or advanced system administrators who are familiar with the aforementioned items will deploy FortiGate autoscale for GCP.

Account permissions

The default Compute service account should have sufficient Identity & Access Management permissions to deploy the cluster using Terraform. See Access control for organization resources with IAM.

Region requirements

To deploy FortiGate autoscale for GCP, the region must support the following:

  • Firestore
  • Google bucket storage
  • Cloud Functions
  • Managed instance groups
  • Cloud NAT

Requirements

Installing and configuring FortiGate autoscale for GCP requires knowledge of the following:

  • Configuring a FortiGate using the command line interface
  • GCP
  • Terraform 0.12

It is expected that DevOps engineers or advanced system administrators who are familiar with the aforementioned items will deploy FortiGate autoscale for GCP.

Account permissions

The default Compute service account should have sufficient Identity & Access Management permissions to deploy the cluster using Terraform. See Access control for organization resources with IAM.

Region requirements

To deploy FortiGate autoscale for GCP, the region must support the following:

  • Firestore
  • Google bucket storage
  • Cloud Functions
  • Managed instance groups
  • Cloud NAT