Creating stacks on AWS CloudFormation

In this topic you can find the prerequisites and the steps to create stacks on AWS CloudFormation.

Before you begin

After having subscribed to HCL Workload Automation on AWS Marketplace, you can start the stack creation process on AWS CloudFormation.

To deploy HCL Workload Automation, your environment needs to meet the following prerequisites:
  • An IAM identity, whether role or user, with admin permission on your AWS account.
  • Helm 3.0
  • kubectl command-line tool to control Kubernetes clusters.
  • AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) tool.
Note: If you have an existing cluster, make sure that you have AWS admin roles to deploy Kubernetes resources and HCL Workload Automation Helm Chart resources.
Resources required

The following resources correspond to the default values required to manage a production environment. These numbers might vary depending on the environment.

Component Container resource limit Container memory request
Server CPU: 4, Memory: 16Gi CPU: 1, Memory: 6Gi, Storage: 10Gi
Console CPU: 4, Memory: 16Gi CPU: 1, Memory: 4Gi, Storage: 5Gi
Dynamic Agent CPU: 1, Memory: 2Gi CPU: 200m, Memory: 200Mi, Storage size: 2Gi
File Proxy CPU: 100m, Memory: 128Mi CPU: 100m, Memory: 128Mi
Follow these instructions to deploy the templates: