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  1. You will receive a welcome email from Blue Hexagon with the following information:

    1. Blue Hexagon for GCP license key

    2. Password to decrypt the Blue Hexagon for GCP Deployment Manager solution package

  2. Download the Blue Hexagon for GCP Deployment Manager package here. Your welcome email should have the password to decrypt the package; if not, ask your Blue Hexagon representative for the same.

  3. Unzip the downloaded package - enter the password when prompted.

    Code Block
    $ unzip bluehexagon_gcp.zip
    Archive:  bluehexagon_gcp.zip
    [bluehexagon_gcp.zip] password: 
      inflating: bluehexagon/bluehexagon-instance-template.jinja  
      inflating: bluehexagon/README.md   
      inflating: bluehexagon/bluehexagon-instance-template.jinja.schema  
      inflating: bluehexagon/bluehexagon.jinja  
      inflating: bluehexagon/bluehexagon.jinja.schema  
  4. Deploy using the gcloud command line tool. Replace the following in the gcloud command line to suit your needs:

    1. bhdemo with the desired name of your GCP Deployment Manager stack

    2. projects/foo-bar/global/networks/dev1 with the name of the VPC in which you want to deploy Blue Hexagon

    3. regions/us-west2/subnetworks/private with the name of the subnet in which you want to deploy Blue Hexagon

    4. us-west2 with the region in which you want to deploy Blue Hexagon

    5. YOUR_LICENSE_KEY with the Blue Hexagon for GCP license key in your welcome email

      Code Block
      languagebash
      $ cd bluehexagon
      $ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create bhdemo \
        --template bluehexagon.jinja \
        --properties network:projects/foo-bar/global/networks/dev1,\
                     subnet:regions/us-west2/subnetworks/private,\
                     region:us-west2,\
                     bluehexagonLicenseKey:YOUR_LICENSE_KEY,
                     vmImage:projects/bh-assets-289216/global/images/bh-gcp-3-0-0-bhap-1110,
Tip

On success, you can check to see that the internal load balancer has been created along with a healthy backend managed instance group, as shown in the screenshots below.

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