About

This template will deploy a new Check Point security gateway into a new VPC environment. It uses a forked version of the official Checkpoint VPC Template that has been updated to work with our newly deployed VPC.

Resources

The deployment will create the following resources:

• VPC
• 5 Subnets [Management, External, Internal, Application, Database]
• Public Gateway
• Check Point security gateway
• An application and database server

Check Point Resources

• Check Point knowledgebase article for IBM Cloud VPC deployments SK170400.
• Check Point Full Deployment Guide

Deploy all resources

1. Copy terraform.tfvars.example to terraform.tfvars:

   cp terraform.tfvars.example terraform.tfvars

2. Edit terraform.tfvars to match your environment.

   Name	Description	Required
   ibmcloud_api_key	IBM Cloud API Key	Y
   vpc_name	Name of the VPC to create	Y
   ssh_key	Name of an existing SSH key to inject in to the VPC instances. command: ibmcloud is keys	Y
   region	Region where the VPC Resources will be deployed. command: ibmcloud is regions	Y
   resource_group	The resource group that will be used when provisioning resources. command: ibmcloud resource groups	Y

3. Plan deployment:

   terraform init
   terraform plan -out default.tfplan

4. Apply deployment:

   terraform apply default.tfplan