# Part 2: Provision

## What Will You Do

In this part of the self-paced exercise, you will configure the SOM automation in order to provision an Amazon EKS cluster and other environment resources.

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## Step 1: Provision Environment Resources

- In the forked repo, navigate to the "eks" directory
- Open the file “provision_eks.ps1”
- Click "Edit this file"

- In the “Populate Variables” section, follow the steps to populate the needed values
- Once the values are populated, click "Commit changes"

- Once committed, go to the "Actions" tab in GitHub. You will see the workflow running.

- Click on the running workflow, click "build" to see the workflow output

- The workflow will take roughly 30 minutes to provision all resources. You can monitor the workflow job output and the Rafay console to see the resources being provisioned.

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## Recap

As of this step, the automation has created a new project in your organization along with custom groups and users. It has also provisioned an EKS cluster with a custom cluster blueprint that contains the Amazon CloudWatch addon and a custom PSP OPA policy. The needed resources to backup and restore from an Amazon S3 bucket have been created. You can manually execute a backup job to begin backing up to the S3 bucket.