Prerequisites

Before using Rancher Prime on AWS as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) offering, you need the following resources, information, and tools:

• A Rancher-compatible EKS cluster. For more details, see the Rancher support matrix. Refer to Creating an EKS cluster for bringing up an EKS cluster to install Rancher Prime PAYG.
• An ingress on the EKS cluster, so that Rancher is accessible from outside the cluster. See the Rancher documentation for instructions on deploying Ingress-NGINX on an EKS cluster.
• The Load Balancer IP address. See the Rancher documentation for how to find it, then save the EXTERNAL-IP.
• The Rancher hostname. The hostname must be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), and its corresponding IP address must be resolvable from a public DNS. See the Rancher documentation for instructions on how to set up DNS. This DNS points to the EXTERNAL-IP.
• aws.
• curl.
• eksctl.
• helm (v3 or greater).