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title	Deploy an EKS cluster with Graviton nodes using Rafay
description	Use the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform to provision an Amazon EKS cluster with an Arm Graviton node group and deploy NGINX to verify the setup.
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minutes_to_complete	60
who_is_this_for	This is an advanced topic for software developers familiar with Kubernetes and AWS who want to learn how to use the Rafay platform to provision and manage EKS clusters backed by Arm Graviton instances.
learning_objectives	Connect your AWS account to the Rafay platform using a cross-account IAM role Provision an Amazon EKS cluster with an Arm Graviton node group using Rafay Deploy and verify NGINX on Arm nodes and clean up all cloud resources
prerequisites	An Amazon Web Services (AWS) [account](https://aws.amazon.com/) A [Rafay account](https://rafay.co) The [AWS CLI](/install-guides/aws-cli/) installed and configured
author	Jason Andrews
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skilllevels	Advanced
subjects	Containers and Virtualization
cloud_service_providers	AWS
armips	Neoverse
operatingsystems	Linux
tools_software_languages	Kubernetes AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Rafay NGINX rctl
further_reading	resource title link type Rafay CLI overview https://docs.rafay.co/cli/overview/ documentation resource title link type Amazon EKS documentation https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ documentation resource title link type AWS Graviton processors https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ documentation resource title link type Kubernetes documentation https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/ documentation
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