This is the shortest path to a working cluster. You need a SysJ workspace, an AWS account where you can create a CloudFormation stack, and about half an hour, most of it spent waiting for EKS.
1. Sign in to your workspace
Your workspace lives at its own address, <workspace>.sysj.com. Open it and sign in. If you do not have a workspace yet, request one from the Get started page.
2. Connect your AWS account
Open Cloud accounts, choose Connect a cloud account, and give SysJ the twelve-digit account id. SysJ shows the CloudFormation template in full and a link that opens it in your AWS console. Create the stack, then choose Check that it worked. See Connect AWS.
3. Ask for a cluster
Open the assistant and say what you need. Name the region and size if you care; the assistant asks for anything it still needs and shows the settings it recorded beside the conversation.
A small dev cluster on AWS in Ireland, cheapest that will run
the platform stack, with metrics and logs.4. Review and approve the plan
SysJ runs terraform plan against your account, which takes a few minutes. The approval card shows the counts to add, change and destroy, the changes grouped by what they are for, and any policy findings. Approve it promptly: an approval expires after a few minutes, and an expired plan has to be asked for again.
5. Watch it build
SysJ applies the approved plan and installs Argo CD on the cluster. Building an EKS cluster takes around twenty minutes. The cluster then appears under Clusters, where you can copy the command to connect to it.