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Selecting your environment

This workshop can run in two different ways:

  • AWS Event: All the resources are already deployed as part of the event, including the Amazon EKS Cluster along with all networking resources and permissions, you can proceed to Accessing Cloud9 IDE.
  • Self: You will need to deploy the Cloudformation template in order to deploy the environment.

Creating the environment, self event​

caution

Only proceed with this step if executing it by your own

In order to start the environment, you will need to deploy the following Cloudformation template. This can be done, either via console or terminal:

EKS Upgrades Workshop CF

Give the name, eks-upgrades-workshop to you stack

The above Cloudformation script will provision a Cloud9 with all the required tools in order to execute the workshop along with AWS VPC, Amazon EKS Cluster, IAM roles and permissions, Install Flux V2.

tip

Wait at least 20 minutes before moving on, this will give time to Cloudformation and SSM finishes its deploy. Might be a good time for a break.

Only proceed after the SSM Run Command has finished. Check here!