End-to-End Process for Deploying Threat Defense Virtual Cluster in GCP

Template-based Deployment

The following flowchart illustrates the workflow for template-based deployment of the Threat Defense Virtual cluster on GCP.

	Workspace	Steps
	Local Host	Download templates and files from GitHub.
	Local Host	Edit template parameters.
	Google Cloud Platform	Create GCP bucket.
	Local Host	Create Google Cloud function source archive file ftdv_cluster_function.zip.
	Google Cloud Platform	Upload the Google function source archive file.
	Google Cloud Platform	Deploy infrastructure.yaml.
	Google Cloud Platform	If private IP addresses are used, create VPC connector.
	Google Cloud Platform	If external IP addresses are used, set deployWithExternalIP to True in cluster_function_infra.yaml.
	Google Cloud Platform	Deploy cluster function infrastructure template.
	Google Cloud Platform	Deploy cluster.

Manual Deployment

The following flowchart illustrates the workflow for manual deployment of the Threat Defense Virtual cluster on GCP.

	Workspace	Steps
	Local Host	Create day 0 configuration script.
	Google Cloud Platform	Create instance template using day 0 configuration.
	Google Cloud Platform	Configure the interfaces.
	Google Cloud Platform	Create instance group and attach instance template.
	Google Cloud Platform	Create NLB and attach to instance group.
	Google Cloud Platform	Create firewall rules for NLB.
	Management Center	Create access rules for health check traffic.
	Management Center	Add control node.