Requirements
You need a few things before you begin deploying your new Fuzzball cluster in AWS.
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An AWS account: The AWS cloud marketplace listing of Fuzzball assumes that you will deploy a cluster in your own account. CIQ does not provide Fuzzball as a SaaS solution at this time. You may use either your own personal account or an organization account provided you have
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A domain name with a hosted zone configured through Route53: In order to connect to your Fuzzball cluster, you need a DNS resolvable URL where it can be hosted. You are expected to provide this by creating a hosted zone in Route53 to act as a subdomain to a domain name you own. You can either use a domain that you already own, your organization’s domain if your administrators will assist you in creating a new DNS record for your Fuzzball subdomain, or you can purchase a new domain to host your Fuzzball cluster. If you don’t already have a personal domain name, it’s easy to purchase one through Route53. Instructions for purchasing a new domain, setting up a hosted zone, and adding the appropriate NS record can be found in the appendix.
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The AWS CLI installed locally and configured to access your account: It is necessary for you to check the latest available version of the postgres v13 release series. You will need to fill this information into the cloud formation template. You will also need the AWS CLI installed locally to set your local K8s context to your cloud deployment and gather the information necessary to access your cluster once it is running.
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The
kubectlcommand line tool: After deploying your Fuzzball cluster, you can get all of the information that you need to access it by running a convenience script provided by CIQ. This script will run all relevant commands and format the output to make it easy to read. It requires that you have set your local K8s context to point to your cloud deployment with the AWS CLI and that you have thekubectlcommand installed locally.
- An API key for a DataDog instance: If you have an existing instance of DataDog, you can use it to monitor your Fuzzball cluster. During deployment, you can optionally provide your DataDog API key to configure access.