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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

Overview​

Upwind BYOC allows you to deploy Upwind outside of AWS, Google, Azure or Oracle clouds, and get the manifest of runtime-powered CNAPP capabilities such as vulnerability management and advanced threat detection in your custom cloud provider or (Oracle, IBM, etc) or on-premises data centers. This topic will walk you through how to install Upwind in your own cloud or on-premises data center.

Start by navigating to My Organization → Cloud Accounts -> Connect New Account. You will then be directed to the following screen, where you will choose Bring your own cloud.

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Connect to Your Data Center​

To connect to your data center, fill in the following information:

  • Account ID: filled in for you from the display name. The Account ID is byoc- followed by the display name, with every character other than a letter or digit replaced by -. For example, the display name Data Center 1 gives the Account ID byoc-Data-Center-1. You need the Account ID when you install the Sensor, so copy it from Inventory → Cloud accounts after you create the account.
  • Display name: choose a customized display name
  • Location: choose the location of your data center from the list or fill in custom text. The default is United States. When you install the Sensor, you use this value as the zone.
  • Type: API type for additional enrichment to resources

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note

Upwind asks about location in order to provide a more friendly context related to your region. Upwind asks about type in order to get important infrastructure context from virtualization and management platforms such as VMware and HyperV. This allows Upwind to provide more accurate topology, visibility, detection and response.

Once you have filled out the required fields, click Continue to connect a Kubernetes cluster.

To get started, you can either deploy Upwind to a Kubernetes cluster or for Virtual Machine/s.

Once you have completed the above steps, you will be able to see your data center listed under the Cloud accounts tab in the Inventory module. To view information about the data center, click on the data center name.

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Once completed, you will then see it in your connected accounts in inventory and be able to see your data center in the topology map with all of your connected kubernetes clusters.