Templates

Deployment Templates

The FortiGate Autoscale Simplified Template provides modular Terraform templates for deploying autoscale architectures in AWS. This section covers both templates and their integration patterns.

Available Templates

Templates Overview

Understand the template architecture, choose deployment patterns, and learn how templates work together.

existing_vpc_resources Template (Optional)

Create supporting infrastructure for lab and test environments including management VPC, Transit Gateway, and spoke VPCs with traffic generators.

autoscale_template (Required)

Deploy the core FortiGate autoscale infrastructure including inspection VPC, Gateway Load Balancer, and FortiGate autoscale groups.

Quick Start Paths

For Lab/Test Environments

  1. Start with Templates Overview to understand architecture
  2. Deploy existing_vpc_resources for complete test environment
  3. Deploy autoscale_template connected to created resources
  4. Time: ~30-40 minutes

For Production Deployments

  1. Review Templates Overview for integration patterns
  2. Skip existing_vpc_resources template
  3. Deploy autoscale_template to existing infrastructure
  4. Time: ~15-20 minutes

Template Coordination

When using both templates together, ensure these variables match exactly:

  • aws_region
  • availability_zone_1 and availability_zone_2
  • cp (customer prefix)
  • env (environment)
  • vpc_cidr_management
  • vpc_cidr_spoke

See Templates Overview for detailed coordination requirements.

What’s Next?