Check Point CloudGuard IaaS (GCP) Deployment Helper Script

This is a simple helper script to automate deploying a specific Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway image on Google Cloud Platform.

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 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).

Reference: sk163656

Best,
Jayden Aung