Installing CT-VL on Google Cloud Platform
Note
Contact Thales Customer Support to obtain access to the CT-VL disk image in Google Cloud Platform.
Prerequisites for Installing CT-VL on Google Cloud Platform
Machine configuration recommended settings:
- General-purpose 
- N1 Series 
- 4 CPUs, 16GB memory 
Installation Steps
To install the CT-VL on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the image:
- Contact Thales Customer Support, and provide your GCP account and region details for access to the CT-VL disk image. - Note - CT-VL is also available as a tar image file. Thales Customer Support places the image Tar file in the gs://cts-release support folder. Refer to the cloud provider user guide to know how to convert the tar file to a disk image and create a virtual machine on the platform. 
- Log in to the GCP console and navigate to Compute Engine > VM Instances > Create Instance. 
- Set a name, region, and zone for your instance. 
- Select your machine configuration as per the prerequisites. 
- Select Boot disk, and navigate to Change > Custom Images. 
- In the Show Images tab, look for the project name that Thales Support has provided and select that project. 
- Select the Image tab and look for the latest CT-VL GA release and select it. For example, ctvl-240-216. 
- Choose a boot disk type, for example, Standard or SSD. - Note - Do not change the disk size. 
- Close the Boot disk page by clicking Select. 
- In the Firewall setting, select Allow HTTPS traffic. - Note - Do not use SSH keys. 
- Click Create to begin creating the CT-VL instance. 
- Connect to the instance using SSH to begin the CT-VL setup.