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Pre-Deployment

Prepare the Management Account for Landing Zone Deployment​

Ensure the following are set up before proceeding to the next step.

  • Management account is already created or use an existing one by following Management Account guide.
  • Configure Email address prefix by following Email Prefix guide.

IAM User Account and Backend Resources for Terraform in Management Account​

In order to deploy resources using Terraform, we need to create an IAM user and backend to store state files.

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An active engagement with OPStimus is required to access the GitHub repositories mentioned in this guide.

From the repository https://github.com/opstimus/client-aws-terraform-bootstrap, download cloudformation.yaml CloudFormation template and follow below steps.

  1. In AWS console, goto CloudFormation. Make sure you’re in us-east-1 region.
  2. Click Create Stack and select With new resources (standard).
  3. Upload the template file and click Next.
  4. For the stack name, set terraform-bootstrap and click Next.
  5. Click Next once more and select the checkbox at the bottom and click Submit.

Prepare the Management Account for Identity Center Deployment​

Install following tools.

JQ

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install jq
RHEL: sudo yum install jq
Mac: brew install jq

AWS CLI

Follow the instructions at below link.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html