Deploy an HCP Boundary cluster

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) enables you to quickly deploy a production ready Boundary cluster. As a fully managed service, it allows you to leverage Boundary to enable access to dynamic infrastructure while offloading the operational burden to the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experts at HashiCorp.

In this tutorial, you will deploy a Boundary cluster using the HCP portal.

Prerequisites

• An HCP account to complete this tutorial.
• Boundary is installed.

Create a Boundary instance

1. Launch the HCP Portal and login.

2. From the Overview page, click Boundary in the left navigation menu.

3. Click Deploy Boundary.

4. In the Instance Name text box, provide a name for your Boundary instance.

5. Under Choose a tier, select the Standard tier to complete this collection of tutorials. If you plan on completing a session recording tutorial, select the Plus tier instead.

6. Under the Create an administrator account section, enter the Username and Password for the initial Boundary administrator account.

   Note

   The Boundary instance is publicly accessible. We recommend using a non-standard username (not root or administrator) and creating a strong password.

7. Click Deploy.

   Wait for the instance to initialize before proceeding.

8. Open a new terminal and export an environment variable for the admin username.

   $ export BOUNDARY_ADMIN=<actual-admin-username-created>
   

   Note

   Creating the environment variables for the Boundary is not required, but used for the ease of following the tutorials.

Boundary overview

When the HCP Boundary deployment completes, you will be redirected to the Boundary Overview page. The overview page provides details about instance.

1. Instance details
2. Instructions on connecting Boundary Desktop to the HCP Boundary instance.
3. Session usage, including active and terminated sessions.

Next steps

You have successfully created a Boundary instance on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform. In the next tutorial you will learn how to connect to HCP Boundary though the Boundary admin console UI and Boundary CLI.