# Deploy Workload

## What Will You Do

In this part of the self-paced exercise, you will configure and deploy an "ARM architecture" compatible workload to the EKS cluster with the ARM Graviton based worker node.

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## Create Namespace

As a user with appropriate RBAC (i.e. Org Admin or Infra Admin or Workspace Admin), create a namespace on the EKS cluster.

- Click on Infrastructure -> Namespaces
- Click on Create New Namespace
- Select "eks-sample-app" for name and "wizard" for type
- Select the EKS Cluster for placement and publish the namespace to the remote cluster

**Note**  
For this exercise, we will keep it simple and skip the assignment of resource quotas and policies.

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## Configure Workload

As a user with appropriate RBAC (i.e. at least Project Admin or Namespace Admin), we will configure a workload to deploy to our remote EKS cluster.

**Important**  
Download the provided [YAML file](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/eks/graviton/eks-sample-app.yaml) and save it to your computer. We will deploy this to the cluster.

- Under Applications -> Workloads, create a "New Workload"
- Enter the name "eks-sample-app" for the workload
- Select "k8s yaml" for type
- Select "upload files manually"
- Ensure the namespace from the prior step is selected

- In the upload step, upload the file "eks-sample-app.yaml" and click on "Save and Go To Placement"
- In placement, select the name of the EKS cluster and "Save and Go To Publish"
- Publish the workload

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## Verify Workload

The controller will take the provided YAML manifest, the configured policies and reconcile it with the remote EKS cluster. In a few seconds, once all the Kubernetes resources come up on the EKS cluster, the workload's status/health will reflect status appropriately.

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