Setup BYOC with GCP
BYOC is one of our setup options, which install our platform's infrastructure in a cloud environment owned by your organization, allowing you to delegate its entire setup, update, and maintenance to groundcover.
To install groundcover BYOC, sign up to groundcover Console and start the installation process.
Installation steps
BYOC requires to create an isolated account within your GCP organization, that will be managed by groundcover's control plane and will establish, configure, and maintain the infrastructure and workloads within the account. These include GCP VPC, GCS, GKE, and LB services.
Once created, provide the service account and project ID. groundcover will validate proper permissions and the deployment will start. The deployment process will take about 30 minutes and afterwards you can go to your app workspace and connect your production environment to be monitored by groundcover.
Troubleshooting
There are 2 types of potential problems you may encounter in the installation process:
Validation issues - before kicking off the installation process, groundcover will verify that the provided service account has the correct permissions. In case of validation issues, please expand the relevant section and address the validation issue. After the issue is fixed, click on Validate again to ensure all the permissions were granted properly.
Deployment issues - once the installation process has started, we may encounter issues while attempting to install one or more components. These issues will appear in the backends main screen.
If any of the above issues persist, reach out to our team.
Add monitoring to your environment
Once groundcover backend is deployed, the final step is to add data sources to monitor your environment, such as deploying our sensors to monitor your clusters or add cloud providers. To do so, go to the data sources page and select the relevant data sources for your needs.
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