Installing Protegrity Appliances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud computing service offered by Google, which provides services for compute, storage, networking, cloud management, security, and so on. The following products are available on GCP:

  • Google Compute Engine provides virtual machines for instances.
  • Google App Engine provides a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to develop products.
  • Google Cloud Storage is a storage platform to store large data sets.
  • Google Container Engine is a cluster-oriented container to develop and manage Docker containers.

Protegrity provides the images for GCP that contain either the Enterprise Security Administrator (ESA), or the Data Security Gateway (DSG).

This section describes the prerequisites and tasks for installing Protegrity appliances on GCP. In addition, it describes some best practices for using the Protegrity appliances on GCP effectively.