# 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.

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## 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](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/eks/credentials_clusterprovisioning/) 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
```

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- 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](https://github.com/RafaySystems/SOM)

- Login to your GitHub account
- Navigate to the [https://github.com/RafaySystems/SOM](https://github.com/RafaySystems/SOM)
- Fork the repository

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## 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"

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## 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"

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## Recap

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

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