Part 1: Setup

What Will You Do

This is Part 1 of a multi-part, self-paced quick start exercise. In this part, you will perform a few "one-time" tasks required for cluster provisioning.

Important

Users that already have a managed EKS cluster in a project in their Org can skip this part completely.

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Step 1: Create Cloud Credentials

Cloud credentials provide privileges to programmatically interact with your Amazon AWS account so that the lifecycle of infrastructure associated with the Amazon EKS cluster can be managed.

• Follow the step-by-step instructions to create an IAM Role based cloud credential.
• Provide the name "aws-cloud-credential" for the cloud credential. Note, if a different name is used, the specification files will need to be updated to match the new name.

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Step 2: Download RCTL

The RCTL CLI allows you to programmatically interact with the controller enabling users to construct sophisticated automation workflows.

• Login into your Org
• Navigate to "My Tools" to download both the RCTL CLI and the "CLI Config" file
• Initialize RCTL using the step-by-step instructions
• Ensure you update your OS's Path environment variable for RCTL

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Step 3: Clone Git Repo

Declarative specs for the Amazon EKS cluster and other resources are available in a Git repository

• Clone the Git repository to your laptop using the command below.

git clone https://github.com/RafaySystems/getstarted.git

• Once complete, you should see a folder called "cloudwatch" which contains the specs needed for this guide.

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Recap

At this point, you have everything setup and configured to provision the Amazon CloudWatch Agent enabled Amazon EKS Cluster

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