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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 setup the required resources to execute the EKS SOM.

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 and use the below details when creating the role.
  • Use the following "Account ID" when creating the IAM Role 
781965151837
  • When prompted, create an "External ID" to create the IAM Role and save the ID for later use
  • Once the IAM Role is created, copy the Role ARN for later use

Step 2: Fork Repository

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

Fork Repository

Step 3: Enable GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions will be used to run the automation workflows that will configure the environment resources.

  • In GitHub, click "Actions"
  • Click "I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them"

Enable Actions

All Workflows

Step 4: Configure Secret

GitHub Actions will use RCTL to automate the provisioning of resources. The RCTL configuration will be stored as a Github Actions Secret.

  • In the Rafay console, click "My Tools" -> "Download CLI Config"
  • Open the downloaded JSON file in a text editor
  • Copy the full JSON contents for later use
  • In the forked GitHub repository, click "Settings"
  • In the left hand pane, click "Secrets" -> "Actions"
  • Click "New repository secret"

New Secret

  • Enter the name "rafaysecret" for the name
  • Paste the copied JSON CLI config in the value field

Create Secret

  • Click "Add secret"

Completed Secet

Recap

At this point, you have everything setup and configured to begin using the SOM automation.