# Overview

This is a multi-part, self paced exercise to explore the Platform's capabilities to takeover lifecycle management of an "**Imported**" Amazon EKS cluster.

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## What Will You Do

| Part | What you will do |
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| 1 | Import an EKS cluster and takeover lifecycle management |
| 2 | Perform lifecycle mgmt by adding a new nodegroup, scaling a nodegroup and optionally upgrade the Kubernetes version |
| 3 | Deprovision the cluster and remove the associated infrastructure on AWS |

Important

Takeover of lifecycle management of existing EKS clusters is limited to managed node groups.

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## Prerequisites

- You have access to an [Amazon AWS account](https://aws.amazon.com/) with privileges to create an IAM Role with the default [Full IAM Policy](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/eks/full_iam_policy/).
- You have an Amazon EKS Cluster already provisioned with one managed nodegroup in AWS.

Note

You can use CLI tools like "[ekstcl](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-eksctl.html)" to provision an EKS Cluster with a one "managed node group".