Deploy using Google Compute Engines

The deployment options vary depending on what are the number of instances where MetaDefender ICAP Server will be installed.

Options:

Single Instance deployment of MetaDefender Core and MetaDefender ICAP Server
Multi-Instances with Autoscaling for MetaDefender Core and MetaDefender ICAP Server.

OPSWAT provides a terraform project as example to deploy MetaDefender ICAP Server and MetaDefender Core in different instances using Google services.

Prerequisites and Requirements

Google knowledge: This guide assumes familiarity with Google Services

Google project: needs permission to create Google Services represented in diagrams in Architecture Examples in CSPs for Google

Tools installation: Terraform

Single Instance Deployment

For a single deployment of MetaDefender Core in Google you can use this example to test this deployment type, besides the MetaDefender VM instance, additional resources are being generated and set up.

Deploy using Terraform

OPSWAT provides a terraform project to create the infrastructure needed to deploy

Locally clone the metadefender-csp repository and go to GCP/single-vm-deployment

git clone git@github.com:OPSWAT/metadefender-csp.git cd GCP/single-instance

Modify terraform.tfvars with the desired options

LICENSE__KEY_CORE_ required if wanted to have the MetaDefender Core instance activated automatically
APIKEY_GENERATION=true to have the apikey generated by terraform
There is one general section and one section for each product that is supported using this Terraform project

# General variables MD_ENV_NAME = "metadefender-test-csp" # Prefix to add to all the resources MD_REGION = "us-central1" # REGION for all the resources PROJECT_ID = "metadefender-k8s" # GCP Project ID #GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS = "" # To give access to terraform (Optional, can use other ways to authenticate) MD_VPC_CIDR = "192.168.0.0/16" # VPC CIDR where to create the MetaDefender products PUBLIC_ENVIRONMENT = true # true for public deployment, false for private deployment # MetaDefender Core variables DEPLOY_CORE = true CORE_IMAGE_PROJECT = "mpi-opswat-public" # GCP Project ID containing the MDSS image CORE_IMAGE_NAME = "metadefender-core-debian-5-16-0-20251001-054226" # Specific image name for MetaDefender Core. Windows image is "metadefender-core-windows-5-16-0-20251001-054247" CORE_INSTANCE_TYPE = "n2-standard-8" # Instance type for MetaDefender Core (equivalent to c5.2xlarge) LICENSE_KEY_CORE = "" # MetaDefender ICAP variables DEPLOY_ICAP = true # true to deploy ICAP together with Core ICAP_IMAGE_PROJECT = "mpi-opswat-public" # GCP Project ID containing the MDSS image ICAP_IMAGE_NAME = "metadefender-icapsrv-linux-5-11-0" # Specific image name for MetaDefender ICAP Server. Windows image is "metadefender-icapsrv-windows-5-11-0" ICAP_INSTANCE_TYPE = "n2-standard-8" # Instance type for MetaDefender ICAP (equivalent to c5.2xlarge) LICENSE_KEY_ICAP = ""

Run terraform init and apply. Check the resource to be created, after that enter "y"

terraform init terraform apply

Managed Instance Group Deployment

Deploy using Terraform

OPSWAT provides a terraform project to create the infrastructure needed to deploy

Locally clone the metadefender-csp repository and go to GCP/single-vm-deployment

git clone git@github.com:OPSWAT/metadefender-csp.git cd GCP/managed-instance-group-deployment

Modify terraform.tfvars with the desired options

LICENSE__KEY_CORE_ required if wanted to have the MetaDefender Core instance activated automatically
APIKEY_GENERATION=true to have the apikey generated by terraform
There is one general section and one section for each product that is supported using this Terraform project

Run terraform init and apply. Check the resource to be created, after that enter "y"

terraform init terraform apply

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