Summary

The following is a guide for getting started with the Klearwave application platform.

Initialize the Cloud Account

The first step in getting started with Klearwave is to initialize your cloud account. Klearwave creates specific permissions in the account and utilizes those permissions to perform followon operations. These operations include such things as provisioning platforms.

The following describes the flow for account initialization:

1. For the initial step, we expect you to configure authentication to your specific cloud. We will use your initial credentials to create additional permissions that we use in followon operations.

   • AWS

2. Klearwave is designed to respect an individual organization's desire to use modern infrastructure-as-code practices. Thus, the first step to account initialization is to generate a configuration that includes all inputs required for account initialization. This configuration may be forked, modified and re-used as each new cloud account needs to be initialized.

   klearwave init platform account config --type=aws --output=/tmp/aws.yaml
   

3. The above command will output a file that contains all inputs for account initialization and looks like the below:

   apiVersion: infrastructure.klearwave.io/v0
   kind: AWSAccount
   metadata:
     name: aws
   spec:
     supportLevel: community
     allowedRoles: []
   

4. Once a configuration has been created and modified to the user liking, the configuration can then be used to initialize the AWS account. It is important to note that the local user authentication for the specific cloud account is used and should be configured prior to running the next command.

   klearwave init platform account --config=/tmp/aws.yaml