CGI-GCP-DEPLOY - CloudGuard Deployer Script for GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

JaydenAung — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:33:42 GMT

CloudGuard IaaS (Google Cloud Platform) Deployment Helper Script

(Original GitHub post here: https://github.com/jaydenaung/cgi-gcp-deploy)

This is a simple helper script to automate deploying a specific Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway image on Google Cloud Platform. I was in an escalation email thread where a partner is having difficulty with deploying a specific image on GCP, and thought this would help simplify the deployment a bit.

Of course, there are other ways to deploy CloudGuard on Google Cloud Platform (e.g. Deployment manager). But if you'd like to deploy a very specific CloudGuard image (even the ones that are not listed in deployment templates) for variety of reasons, this method and script is for you. A couple of reasons you might want to do this may include deploying or restoring a Management HA solution or a log server, and restoring a previous backup, etc.

Check the exact CloudGuard IaaS image

Check the CloudGuard images available on Google Cloud.

gcloud compute images list --project=checkpoint-public

In this lab, we're gonna deploy check-point-r8040-payg-294-759-v20201202. So you can verify the image by executing the following:

gcloud compute images list --project=checkpoint-public  | grep check-point-r8040-payg-294-759-v20201202

You will also need to update the image variable in the script as well.

Pre-requisites

Please do the following;

Install Google Cloud SDK.
A service account with proper permission setup for your GCP Project: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service-accounts
Enable Compute API: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/services/enable

Example:
```
gcloud services --project <project name> enable compute.googleapis.com
```
Download the cgi-gcp-setup.sh script from this repo, and update the VARIABLES in the script. (e.g. project, network, etc)
Make the script executable by executing chmod +x cgi-gcp-setup.sh

And Execute the following:

./cgi-gcp-setup.sh

Expected Output

./cgi-gcp-setup.sh
WARNING: You have selected a disk size of under [200GB]. This may result in poor I/O performance. For more information, see: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/disks#performance.
Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/helloworld041019/zones/asia-southeast1-a/instances/cg-gateway].
NAME        ZONE               MACHINE_TYPE   PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP          EXTERNAL_IP    STATUS
cg-gateway  asia-southeast1-a  n1-standard-2               10.0.0.10,10.4.0.10  1.2.3.4  RUNNING
Your CGI Gateway has been created on Thu Dec 10 13:14:41 +08 2020!

Verify that your Gateway is running

$gcloud compute instances list  

NAME            ZONE               MACHINE_TYPE   PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP          EXTERNAL_IP    STATUS
cg-gateway      asia-southeast1-a  n1-standard-2               10.0.0.10,10.4.0.10  1.2.3.4  RUNNING

Once the gateway is deployed, you can access the public IP via https (or SSH).

Check out Check Point SK sk163656 for more information.

Best,

Jayden Aung

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CGI-GCP-DEPLOY - CloudGuard Deployer Script for GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Check the exact CloudGuard IaaS image

Pre-requisites

Expected Output

Verify that your Gateway is running