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 setup the required resources to execute the EKS SOM.

Step 1: Create 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 to create an IAM Role and use the below details when creating the role.
• Use the following "Account ID" when creating the IAM Role

781965151837

• When prompted, create an "External ID" to create the IAM Role and save the ID for later use
• Once the IAM Role is created, copy the Role ARN for later use

Step 2: Fork Repository

Declarative specs for the Amazon EKS cluster and other resources are available in a Git repository

• Login to your GitHub account
• Navigate to the https://github.com/RafaySystems/SOM
• Fork the repository

Step 3: Enable GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions will be used to run the automation workflows that will configure the environment resources.

• In GitHub, click "Actions"
• Click "I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them"

Step 4: Configure Secret

GitHub Actions will use RCTL to automate the provisioning of resources. The RCTL configuration will be stored as a Github Actions Secret.

• In the Rafay console, click "My Tools" -> "Download CLI Config"

• Open the downloaded JSON file in a text editor

• Copy the full JSON contents for later use

• In the forked GitHub repository, click "Settings"

• In the left hand pane, click "Secrets" -> "Actions"

• Click "New repository secret"

• Enter the name "rafaysecret" for the name

• Paste the copied JSON CLI config in the value field

• Click "Add secret"

Recap

At this point, you have everything setup and configured to begin using the SOM automation.