Welcome to your first step towards cloud efficiency and savings with Infrastructure Optimizer!
Before you begin, use this checklist to confirm your environment satisfies the specifications required to operate Infrastructure Optimizer.
Network
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VPC | Contains at least one private subnet. Check with this command:
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NAT Gateway | Has a NAT Gateway with public connectivity. Verify with this command:
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Security
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SSH Key | This will be used to attach to the Management Server. |
Trusted Certificate | Required only if deploying in a private environment. |
Compute
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Operating System | Using Linux variants. |
Permissions
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We understand that cloud control and security are important to you.
To use Infrastructure Optimizer and start saving right away, you must create the following least-privilege IAM roles:
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This policy needs to be attached to the user who performs the installation and operation.
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Least privilege IAM policies
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Explanation
Installations And Deployment
The AWS IAM principal used to install Infrastructure Optimizer must have the following permissions:
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EC2 Instance Profile
The X-Spot controllers and workers require a set of IAM permissions to manage and scale your workloads efficiently. Use this CloudFormation template to create the
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EC2 instance profiles.
When completed, the roles and instance profile ARNs output by CloudFormation will be needed for subsequent installation steps
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AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: Create IAM roles and policies for Controllers and Workers
Resources:
ExostellarControllerRole:
Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role'
Properties:
AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
Version: '2012-10-17'
Statement:
- Effect: Allow
Principal:
Service: ec2.amazonaws.com
Action: 'sts:AssumeRole'
Policies:
- PolicyName: ExostellarControllerPolicy
PolicyDocument: |
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:RunInstances",
"ec2:StopInstances",
"ec2:DescribeSpotPriceHistory",
"ec2:DescribeInstances",
"ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
"ec2:DescribeTags",
"ec2:CreateTags",
"ec2:CreateFleet",
"ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
"ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
"ec2:TerminateInstances",
"ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses",
"ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses",
"ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
"ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
"ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
"ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
"ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
"ec2:DescribeRegions",
"ec2:CreateVolume",
"ec2:DescribeVolumes",
"ec2:AttachVolume",
"ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
"ec2:DetachVolume",
"ec2:DeleteVolume",
"ec2:CreateInstanceExportTask",
"ec2:DescribeExportTasks",
"ec2:RebootInstances",
"ec2:CreateSnapshot",
"ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
"iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
"iam:ListRoles",
"iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
"iam:PassRole",
"iam:GetRole",
"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
"ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
"ec2:DescribeImages",
"ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
"ec2:DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings",
"iam:GetInstanceProfile",
"iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy",
"sns:Publish",
"ssm:GetParameters",
"ssm:GetParametersByPath"
],
"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"eks:DescribeCluster"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
Tags:
- Key: "Name"
Value: !Sub "${AWS::StackName}-controller-role"
ExostellarControllerProfile:
Type: 'AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile'
Properties:
Roles:
- !Ref ExostellarControllerRole
ExostellarWorkerRole:
Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role'
Properties:
AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
Version: '2012-10-17'
Statement:
- Effect: Allow
Principal:
Service: ec2.amazonaws.com
Action: 'sts:AssumeRole'
Policies:
- PolicyName: ExostellarWorkerPolicy
PolicyDocument: |
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": [
"ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses"
],
"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:ModifyInstanceMetadataOptions",
"eks:DescribeCluster"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
Tags:
- Key: "Name"
Value: !Sub "${AWS::StackName}-worker-role"
ManagedPolicyArns:
- "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly"
- "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore"
- "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy"
- "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSWorkerNodePolicy"
- "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy"
ExostellarWorkerProfile:
Type: 'AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile'
Properties:
Roles:
- !Ref ExostellarWorkerRole
Outputs:
ExostellarControllerRoleARN:
Description: ARN of the Controller IAM Role. This will be used in the ConfigMap.
Value: !GetAtt ExostellarControllerRole.Arn
ExostellarControllerRoleInstanceProfileARN:
Description: Instance Profile ARN of the Controller IAM Role. This will be used in the Profile Configuration.
Value: !GetAtt ExostellarControllerProfile.Arn
ExostellarWorkerRoleARN:
Description: ARN of the Exostellar Worker Role. This will be used in the ConfigMap.
Value: !GetAtt ExostellarWorkerRole.Arn
ExostellarWorkerRoleInstanceProfileARN:
Description: Instance Profile ARN of the Worker IAM Role. This will be used in the Profile Configuration.
Value: !GetAtt ExostellarWorkerProfile.Arn |