Installation & configuration of Splunk Enterprise server in GCE & Splunk Connect in GKE — Part-1

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In this post, we are going to see about how to configure a splunk enterprise server in Google cloud compute engine.

Select the operating system as per your organization standards and the machine type as N2-standard-2, you can resize the machine type later as per the GCE utilization recommendation.

Select machine type

In my case , I chose an Ubuntu OS for license cost reasons and a bpd (Balanced persistent disk) with 500 GB.

Select OS version

For additional log storage, we can add a bpd or a SSD disk . The screenshot below shows the addition of 1 TB disk to the GCE instance.

Additional Storage

Configure the required network and disable/enable the external ip address based on your project needs. If you enable public ip address make sure it is accessible only from…