Deployment Steps

Perform the following Terraform commands in sequence:

  1. Complete the Terraform Configuration steps.

  2. Configure the service account credentials: 

    export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/your/service-account-key.json"

  3. Set the LogScale license: 

    export TF_VAR_humiocluster_license=<your_logscale_license>

  4. Initialize Terraform: 

    terraform init

  5. Deploy the GCP infrastructure: 

    terraform apply -target module.vpc -target module.gke

  6. The GKE module will configure kubectl context automatically. Update your local kubeconfig if needed: 

    gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster-name> --zone <zone> --project <project-id>

  7. Deploy Pre-install Components: 

    terraform apply -target module.kubernetes_pre_install

  8. Deploy LogScale: 

    terraform apply -target module.logscale

  9. Obtain the load balancer IP address: 

    # Get the external IP address
terraform output -raw gce-ingress-external-static-ip

  10. Create DNS A record in your DNS provider using the following information: 

    Name: Your subdomain (e.g., logscale)
Type: A
Value: The external IP address from terraform output
TTL: 300

  11. Confirm the deployment was successful. You can run the following commands to ensure pods are running: 

    kubectl get pods -n logging

Alternatively, access the LogScale cluster at the configured URL: https://<public_url>, using the default credentials of username admin and using the password retrieve from the Kubernetes secret.