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

Perform the following steps to create instances.

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

2. Select Compute Engine > VM instance.

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

4. On the displayed New VM Instance area , provide instance Name (lowercase alphabets, numbers, and Google Cloud Console special characters)

5. Select the Region and Zone.

6. 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

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7. For the Boot Disk, click the Change button. You can use Ubuntu or RHEL Operating System.

   • Ubuntu: From the custom images, select image as “kyvos-ubuntu20-image-2023-11-07”, and set the value of Standard Persistent Disk as 50GB.

   • RHEL: From the public images, select Operating System as “Red Hat Enterprise Linux ”, and select versions as Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.

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

9. Click the Networking, Disks, Security, Management, sole tenancy link, and configure as follows:

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

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

   3. Go to the Security tab. Here, provide the complete text of your SSH Public Key. This security key will be used to connect to these machines and the Dataproc cluster.
      
      

   4. On the Management tab:

   5. Reservations: Select the Automatically use created reservation.

   6. 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.

   7. Click the Create button to create the VM.

Next Steps

1. Ensure that all the prerequisites are available.

2. Create Dataproc (compute cluster).