Deploy the wallet-component helm chart on AWS EKS

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To deploy the `wallet-component` Helm chart on AWS EKS, you need to perform several tasks. First, you'll need to provision an Amazon EKS cluster. Then, you can deploy the Helm chart to the cluster. Below I'll guide you through the process using TypeScript in Pulumi.

### Prerequisites
Before you start, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
- An AWS account with the necessary permissions to create an EKS cluster and related resources.
- Pulumi CLI installed and configured with AWS credentials.
- `kubectl` installed to interact with the EKS cluster.
- Helm installed if you need to customize the Helm charts before deploying.

### Step 1: Create an EKS Cluster
You'll need an EKS cluster where you can deploy the Helm chart. Below is the TypeScript code that uses Pulumi's `eks` package to create an EKS cluster.

```typescript
import * as eks from "@pulumi/eks";

// Create an EKS cluster with the default settings.
// This will configure the cluster with public access and a default node group.
const cluster = new eks.Cluster("walletCluster", {});

// Export the cluster's kubeconfig.
export const kubeconfig = cluster.kubeconfig;
```

### Step 2: Deploy the Helm Chart
Once you have your EKS cluster, you can deploy your `wallet-component` Helm chart to it. You'll use Pulumi's `helm.v3.Chart` resource to achieve this.

You need to give me more information about where your Helm chart is located—if it's in a Helm repository or packed in a local directory. For this example, we'll assume that the Helm chart is available in a repository.

```typescript
import * as k8s from "@pulumi/kubernetes";

// Assuming we have the cluster from Step 1
const cluster = new eks.Cluster("walletCluster", {});

// Deploy the wallet-component Helm chart to the cluster.
const walletComponentChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("walletComponent", {
    chart: "wallet-component",
    version: "1.0.0", // replace with your chart version
    fetchOpts: {
        repo: "https://example.com/helm-charts", // replace with your Helm chart repository
    },
}, { provider: cluster.provider });

// Export the Helm chart deployment status.
export const walletComponentStatus = walletComponentChart.status;
```

### Explanation

Here's what happens in the Pulumi program:

- We import the `eks` module from `@pulumi/eks` to create an EKS cluster and the `kubernetes` module from `@pulumi/kubernetes` for deploying Kubernetes resources.
- We create an EKS cluster named `walletCluster`. You can customize the cluster by passing additional options to the `eks.Cluster` constructor.
- We export `kubeconfig` which is needed to interact with the cluster using `kubectl`.
- We then create a Pulumi resource representing the `wallet-component` Helm chart deployment, specifying the chart name, version, and repository URL.
- The `{ provider: cluster.provider }` argument ensures that the Helm chart is deployed to the cluster we've provisioned.
- We export `walletComponentStatus`, which will provide information on the status of the deployment.

Please replace `https://example.com/helm-charts` with the actual URL to the Helm repository hosting your `wallet-component` and specify the correct version of the chart.

After writing this code into a `.ts` file, run `pulumi up` to have Pulumi provision the EKS cluster and deploy the Helm chart.

### Tips
- You can find more details about configuring the EKS cluster in [Pulumi's EKS documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/eks/api-docs/cluster/).
- For more information on deploying Helm charts with Pulumi, refer to the [Helm Chart resource documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/kubernetes/api-docs/helm/v3/chart/).

Remember to replace placeholders such as chart version or repository URL with actual values before running your Pulumi program.