Deploying a FortiGate-VM instance

The networks in this example are already setup. Use existing networks and subnets or create them prior to running the commands in this document. Edit all GCP environment-specific variables to fit your GCP environment. This guide assumes familiarity with Linux distributions and Google Cloud CLI already installed and configured for your project and GCP environment. For information about installing the Google Cloud CLI SDK, see Install the gcloud CLI.

This process uses environment variables with the GCloud SDK CLI commands. The custom image creation process is referenced to create the FortiGate-VM Instance.

To deploy a FortiGate-VM instance:

1. Define environment variables:

   project=<your project id>
   zone=us-central1-a
   serviceaccount=<your service account>
   image_name=doc-fortigate-vm-image
   image=projects/$project/global/images/$image_name

   For information about using publicly available images, see Finding public FortiGate images.

2. Edit and run the following commands in GCP:

   gcloud compute instances create doc-fortigate-vm \
   --project=$project \
   --zone=$zone \
   --machine-type=n2d-standard-2 \
   --network-interface=network-tier=PREMIUM,private-network-ip=10.0.1.10,subnet=unprotected-public-subnet \
   --network-interface=private-network-ip=10.0.2.10,subnet=protected-private-subnet,no-address \
   --can-ip-forward \
   --service-account=$serviceaccount \
   --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform \
   --create-disk=auto-delete=yes,boot=yes,device-name=doc-fortigate-vm-boot,image=$image,mode=rw,size=10,type=projects/$project/zones/$zone/diskTypes/pd-balanced \
   --create-disk=auto-delete=yes,device-name=doc-fortigate-vm-log,mode=rw,size=10,type=projects/$project/zones/$zone/diskTypes/pd-balanced
   

   

3. Add the following lines to bootstrap the new instance with an existing configuration file and BYOL license file:

   --metadata-from-file "license=<license text file>,user-data=<FortiGate CLI text file>".
   --metadata-from-file "license=license.txt,user-data=config.txt".
   

   

   This step requires a Linux distribution with the GCloud SDK ClI installed. It leverages the Linux file system to read the license and configuration files and pass them to the FortiGate-VM. See Bootstrapping FortiGate at initial bootup.

4. Obtain the newly deployed FortiGate-VM instance ID by running the following command: gcloud compute instances describe doc-fortigate-vm –zone=$zone | grep id. For more information, see Get the ID of a VM instance.
5. Access the newly deployed FortiGate-VM using the public IP address from step 2's output and the instance ID from step 4 as the password. If you did not bootstrap a license file, you can apply a license in the FortiOS GUI.