This guide will deploy chatwoot on a single VM in GCP. For a cloud native deployment, use our helm charts with Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE).
This guide is a work in progress and your mileage may vary.

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Create Compute Engine (VM)

  1. Navigate to VM > Compute Engine window.
  2. Create an instance with a minimum of 4vCPU and 8GB RAM.(N2 General-Purpose)
  3. Make sure to select the correct region you want to deploy.
  4. Choose Ubuntu 20.04 as your OS with a 120GB disk.
  5. Click create.
gcp-create-compute-engine

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Install Chatwoot

  1. SSH into the instance created.
  2. Follow the linux VM instructions at https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/self-hosted/deployment/linux-vm.
  3. Woot! Woot! Your Chatwoot Instance is ready and can be accessed at http://<your-instance-ip>:3000. Or if you completed the domain setup during the installation, chatwoot should be available at https://<your-domain>

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Configure Chatwoot

  1. Follow the Chatwoot docs to configure your domain, email and other parameters you need. https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/self-hosted/deployment/linux-vm#configure-the-required-environment-variables