Preparing the essential prerequisites
In this section, we will work on the following:
- Preparing the IAM role for the EC2 instance of the Cloud9 environment
- Attaching the IAM role to the EC2 instance of the Cloud9 environment
- Updating the Cloud9 environment with the essential prerequisites
Let’s work on and prepare the essential prerequisites one by one.
Preparing the IAM role for the EC2 instance of the Cloud9 environment
In order for us to securely create and manage Amazon EKS and AWS CloudFormation resources from inside the EC2 instance of the Cloud9 environment, we would need to attach an IAM role to the EC2 instance. In this section, we will prepare this IAM role and configure it with the permissions required to create and manage the other resources in this chapter.
Note
We will discuss Amazon EKS and AWS CloudFormation in more detail in the Setting up Kubeflow on Amazon EKS section of this chapter.
In the next set of steps, we will...