GCP notes

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+title: "Google Cloud Notes"
+description: "These are the steps for installing Core on Google Cloud Platform"
+icon: "article"
+date: "2025-05-27T00:00:00-00:00"
+lastmod: "2025-05-27T00:00:00-00:00"
+draft: false
+toc: true
+---
+
+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.**