# 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.

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## Step 1: 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](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/eks/credentials/) to create an IAM Role based cloud credential.
- Provide a name for the cloud credential such as " **aws-cloud-credential**"

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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](https://docs.rafay.co/cli/overview/) and the "CLI Config" file
- Initialize RCTL using the [step-by-step instructions](https://docs.rafay.co/cli/config/)
- 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](https://github.com/RafaySystems/getstarted)

- 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 "gpueks" which contains the specs needed.

```
$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   5 demos  staff   160 Nov 19 17:04 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 demos  staff   128 Nov 19 17:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x  12 demos  staff   384 Nov 19 17:07 .git
drwxr-xr-x   7 demos  staff   224 Nov 19 17:04 gpueks
```

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## Recap

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