How to get Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform on GCP(Google Cloud Platform)

This section describes how to launch and connect to Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform on Google Cloud Platform.

1. Open Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform listing on GCP Marketplace
2. Click Launch.

• It will take you to the agreement page. On this page, you can change the project from the project selector on top navigator bar as shown in the below screenshot.

• Accept the Terms and agreements by ticking the checkbox and clicking on the AGREE button.

• It will show you the successfully agreed popup page. Click on Deploy.

• On deployment page, give a name to your deployment.

• In Deployment Service Account section, click on Existing radio button and Choose a service account from the Select a Service Account dropdown.

• If you don't see any service account in dropdown, then change the radio button to New Account and create the new service account here.
• If after selecting New Account option, you get below permission error message then please reach out to your GCP admin to create service account by following Step by step guide to create GCP Service Account and then refresh this deployment page once the service account is created, it should be available in the dropdown.

You are missing resourcemanager.projects.setIamPolicy permission, which is needed to set the required roles on the created Service Account

• Select a zone where you want to launch the VM(such as us-east1-)
• Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory. ( This defaults to 1 vCPUs and 3.75 GB ram)
• Optionally change the boot disk type and size. (This defaults to ‘Standard Persistent Disk’ and 10 GB respectively)
• Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names. Be sure that whichever network you specify has ports 22 (for ssh), 3389 (for RDP) and 80 (for HTTP) exposed.
• Click Deploy when you are done.
• Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform will begin deploying.

3. A summary page displays when the compute engine is successfully deployed. Click on the Instance link to go to the instance page .

4. On the instance page, click on the “SSH” button, select “Open in browser window”.

5. This will open SSH window in a browser.
6. Run below command to set the password for “ubuntu” user

sudo passwd ubuntu

7. Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local windows machine using RDP or linux machine using Remmina.

8. To connect using RDP via Windows machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below

9. Then From your local windows machine, goto “start” menu, in the search box type and select “Remote desktop connection”

10. In the “Remote Desktop connection” wizard, paste the external ip and click connect

11. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in step 6 to authenticate. Click OK

12. Now you are connected to out of box Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform environment via Windows machines.

13. To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page,then from your local Linux machine, goto menu, in the search box type and select “Remmina”.

Note: If you don’t have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, firstInstall Remmina as per your linux distribution.

14. In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.

15. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in step 6 to authenticate. Click OK

16. Now you are connected to out of box Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform environment via Linux machine.

17. Once you are connected to Metabase VM through RDP, Click on “SetupMetabase” icon on desktop, wait for it to finish.

18. Once your vm is up and running, you can access Metabase setup page by going to http://VM_Public_IP. Click on Let’s get started.

19. Configure admin user here 20. Add your data here 21. Complete other steps and click on Take me to metabase 22. Now you are logged-In as admin. 23. You can add more users by going to Settings and People tab as shown below. 24. Metabase Directories:

Metabase folder structure is /home/ubuntu/metabase. The folder/file permissions and ownership should not be changed via chmod or chown commands.

• metabase-data folder: Home folder for Metabase application
• postgres-data folder: Home folder for Postgresql database files