Note: This installation method will be deprecated by the end of 2022. The recommended method for installing Timesketch is here and the recommended method for installing Turbinia is here.

Note: This setup will add billing costs to your project.

Installing Terraform

Please follow these instructions to install Terraform binary on your machine.

Setting up a Google Cloud Project

1. Create a new project in GCP console (link). Let's assume it's called "gcp-forensics-deployment-test".
2. Enable billing for the project (link).

Instrumenting Terraform with credentials

1. In Cloud Platform Console, navigate to the Create service account key page.
2. From the Service account dropdown, select Compute Engine default service account, and leave JSON selected as the key type.
3. Click Create, which downloads your credentials as a file named [PROJECT_ID]-[UNIQUE_ID].json.
4. In the same shell where you're going to run Terraform (see below), run the following:

export GCLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON=/absolute/path/to/downloaded-file.json

Running Terraform

cd to the folder with Terraform configuration files (and where this README file is).

If it's the first time you run Terraform with this set of configuration files, run:

terraform init

Then run (gcp-forensics-deployment-test is the name of a project that you've previously set up):

terraform apply -var 'gcp_project=gcp-forensics-deployment-test'

Run the following to get information about the newly deployed infrastructure:

terraform output