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Creating GCP Instances for use with Kyvos

Creating GCP Instances for use with Kyvos

Applies to: Kyvos Enterprise  Kyvos Cloud (SaaS on AWS) Kyvos AWS Marketplace

Kyvos Azure Marketplace   Kyvos GCP Marketplace Kyvos Single Node Installation (Kyvos SNI)

To create GCP instances for use with Kyvos, you need to create instances for:

  • BI Server

  • Query Engines

  • Kyvos Manager

Note

The instances' creation steps remain the same for BI Server, Query Engines, and Kyvos Manager.

Download the GCP Installation Files folder and keep the requisite files handy.

Perform the following steps to create instances.

  1. Log into Google Cloud Console using your Google Account credentials.

  2. Select Compute Engine > VM instance.

  3. On the VM Instances page, click the Create Instance button.

  4. Set the Machine configuration with a minimum recommendation as:
    Series: N2
    Machine Type –  Kyvos Manager:  n2-standard-4  Query Engine:  n2-highmem-4  BI Server:  n2-standard-8

    1. On the displayed Machine configuration, provide instance Name (lowercase alphabets, numbers, and Google Cloud Console special characters)

    2. Select the Region and Zone.

  5. For the Operating system and storage, click the Change button. You can use Ubuntu or RHEL Operating System.

    1. Ubuntu: From the custom images, select image as “kyvos-ubuntu20-2024-3”, and set the value of Standard Persistent Disk as 50GB.

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    2. RHEL: From the custom images, select image as “kyvos-rhel-image-2023-5”, and set the value of Standard Persistent Disk as 50GB.

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    3. On the Disks tab, create an additional disk using the Add New Disk button.

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  6. Go to the Networking tab, select the Network Interface, and provide Subnetwork where you want to launch VM instances.

  7. Go to the Security tab.

    1. Under the Identity and API Access, select the Service Account that you created from the list.

    2. For Access scopes, the Allow full access to all Cloud APIs must be set.

    3. Provide the complete text of your SSH Public Key. This security key will be used to connect to these machines.

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  8. On the Advanced tab:

    • Reservations: Select the Automatically use created reservation.

    • Automation: Provide the Startup scripts.
      For BI Server and Query Engines, use the startup-script-bi.sh file provided in the GCP Installation Files folder.
      For Kyvos Manager, use the startup-script-km.sh file provided in the GCP Installation Files folder.
      NOTE: You MUST ensure that all the prerequisites are available.

  9. Click the Create button to create the VM.

Note

  • Once created, you can validate if the resources meet the requirements for installing Kyvos on the Google cloud platform.

  • To deploy the Kyvos cluster using password-based authentication for service nodes, ensure that the permissions listed here are available on all the VM instances for the Linux user deploying the cluster.

  • To deploy the Kyvos cluster using custom hostnames for resources, ensure that the steps listed here are completed on all the resources created for use in the Kyvos cluster.

  • You MUST add a space and write kyvos after pasting the key text.
    For example:
    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQD7iAIVxW/35boDkvBDqAglXO+DoHMlDZe1fEqo9dW/lPU9w8/LF8Z/mwf kyvos

Next Step:

Ensure that all the prerequisites are available.

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