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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Deployment Guide Using Terraform for AWS
  3. Getting started with deployment
  4. Steps for getting started with the deployment
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Deployment Guide Using Terraform for AWS

Steps for getting started with the deployment

The topic helps you to understand the initial configuration for deploying the Cloud Scale Technology. The following table shows the steps involved in setting up the configuration.

Table: Getting started using Terraform scripts for deploying Cloud Scale Technology on AWS

Steps

Description

1. Ensure the prerequisites for creating Terraform Management Server are met.

Ensure that the Terraform Management Server prerequisites and networking requirements are met.

Refer to the section See Terraform Management Server requirements .

2. Configure Terraform Management Server.

Refer to the section See Creating and configuring Terraform Management Server.

Refer to the section See Installing the packages for Terraform Management Server.

3. Authentication with AWS.

User / role which you will be using for deployment should have minimum permissions. Refer to the section

See AWS authentication and permission requirements .

4. Execute the PreFlight checker script.

This checklist is executed to verify the environment readiness before deploying the Cloud Scale Technology. Refer to the section See About PreFlight checker(checklist) script.

5a. Learn about the stages involved in the Terraform deployment.

5b. Installation instructions for deploying the Cloud Scale Technology.

See Stages of deploying Terraform scripts on AWS.

See Installation instructions for deploying the Cloud Scale Technology on AWS.

6. Access Cloud Scale Technology UI after deployment.

See Accessing the Cloud Scale Technology environment after deployment.

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