Note: Customers using Google Cloud will need to provision using a static IP, the appropriate disk size, and make some adjustments to the firewall rules.

Here are some sample “gcloud” command line instructions.

  • We set up the VM address…
  gcloud compute addresses create coreserver-static-1 --region=us-central1
  • We set up the VM instance using the CoreServer image, the disk size and using the address defined in the prior step…
  gcloud compute instances create coreservernew1 \<br>
      --zone=us-central1-a \<br>
      --machine-type=e2-medium \<br>
      --image=coreserver-gcp-x86-26-06-24 \<br>
      --image-project=fed-project-name \<br>
      --boot-disk-size=80G \<br>
      --address=coreserver-static-1 \<br>
      --metadata "ssh-keys=root:ssh-ed25519 YOUR_KEY_HERE root@core-provisioner"

You will also need to set the firewall rules as allowed in GCP.

  • We allow for DNS traffic on port 53.
  gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-dns \
      --allow tcp:53,udp:53 \
      --network default \
      --description "Allow DNS traffic on port 53"
  • Allow for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
  gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-http-https \
      --allow tcp:80,tcp:443 \  
      --network default \
      --description "Allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic"
  • Finally, we allow ports for the email service. You need the email service so that installed apps can send messages to users.
  gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-mail \
      --allow tcp:25,tcp:143,tcp:587,tcp:993,tcp:465,tcp:110,tcp:995 \
      --network default \
      --description "Allow mail ports SMTP, IMAP, POP3"

Please reach out to us if you have any questions.