# Overview

This guide contains the steps needed for a user to consume one of the “deployment option reference design’s” for the Rafay “Standard Operating Model”.

This option:

- Is based on upstream Kubernetes clusters
- Uses declarative specifications for all resources that can be version controlled and used to replicate/reproduce infrastructure anytime
- Uses AWS S3 for cluster backup and restore
- Uses “GitHub Actions” for turnkey automation and workflows

What will this Deploy?

## What Will You Do by Part

| Part | What will you do? |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | [Setup](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/mks/som/setup/) and Configuration |
| 2 | [Provision](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/mks/som/provision/) resources |
| 3 | [Deprovision](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/mks/som/deprovision/) resources |

## Assumptions

- You have access to a [GitHub account](https://github.com/)
- You have a preconfigured upstream kubernetes cluster with SSH access
- You have access to an [Amazon AWS account](https://aws.amazon.com/) with privileges to create an IAM User with the [IAM Policy](https://docs.rafay.co/backup/credentials_aws/) to allow backups to an S3 bucket