How to set up Confluence Data Center on GCP

[Yohaan Sunny]

Hi,

We are upgrading our Confluence to the Confluence Data Center license and was wondering if someone could help us on how to run it on GCP.

I have tried out running Confluence DC on AWS and have it up and running with minimum effort. Amazon and Atlassian have detailed documentation on this and I can see a lot of discussions on this in the community which really helped in troubleshooting some minor issues. This is the documentation I followed Confluence on AWS

Is there a similar kind of documentation I can follow for setting up Confluence DC on GCP? Or do we just have to manually set all the cluster/ synchrony nodes, database instance, load balancer etc?

[Manoj Kumar]

Several requirements must be configured before Confluence can be installed on the Google Cloud Platform.

Create an Ubuntu 18 LTS virtual machine with a firewall rule for both Ingres and Egress. Create a service account user and install font requirements to run Confluence as a service. Create a database (PostgreSQL or MySQL) with Google Cloud SQL, install Confluence and activate the licence.
The instructions for installing Confluence Datacenter on Compute Engine are explained in the following article.

https://www.incapio.com/post/how-to-install-confluence-on-google-cloud-gcp

Otherwise, Cloudron may be used to install Confluence Datacenter. Then, Confluence Datacenter is installed by Cloudron in a matter of seconds. For non-techies, this is the most simple solution.

[Chii]

Right now, it is manual for GCP.

Also note, for node discovery, you will need to use tcp/ip, rather than multicast (as i don't believe multicast works in GCP). See https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-configure-a-cluster-without-multicast-traffic-104300764.html for documentation on how to configure tcp/ip node discovery.