Deploy the tinyproxy-exporter helm chart on AWS EKS

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To deploy the `tinyproxy-exporter` helm chart on an AWS EKS cluster, you would need to perform the following steps:

1. Create an EKS cluster using Pulumi with the `aws.eks.Cluster` resource.
2. Deploy the helm chart on the EKS cluster using the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource.

Let's start by setting up an EKS cluster. EKS is a managed Kubernetes service on AWS that allows you to run Kubernetes without managing the master nodes. The `aws.eks.Cluster` resource creates a new EKS cluster along with the required IAM roles and VPC configuration.

Next, once the cluster is set up, you can use Pulumi's `kubernetes` provider to deploy the `tinyproxy-exporter` to the EKS cluster using Helm. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, which allows you to define, install, and upgrade complex Kubernetes applications.

Below is the TypeScript program using Pulumi to deploy an EKS cluster and install the `tinyproxy-exporter` helm chart:

```typescript
import * as pulumi from '@pulumi/pulumi';
import * as aws from '@pulumi/aws';
import * as eks from '@pulumi/eks';
import * as k8s from '@pulumi/kubernetes';

// Create an EKS cluster.
const cluster = new eks.Cluster('my-cluster', {
    // Specify the desired settings for the EKS cluster such as version, vpc configuration, etc. 
});

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

// After creating the cluster, we can deploy the tinyproxy-exporter helm chart to this cluster. 
// The kubernetes provider needs to be setup with the kubeconfig.

const provider = new k8s.Provider('provider', {
    kubeconfig: cluster.kubeconfig.apply(JSON.stringify),
});

// Deploy tinyproxy-exporter Helm chart to EKS cluster
const tinyproxyExporterChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart('tinyproxy-exporter', {
    chart: 'tinyproxy-exporter',
    version: 'your-chart-version', // replace with the version of the chart you want to deploy
    fetchOpts: { repo: 'https://helm-repo-url' }, // replace with the URL of the chart repository
}, { provider });

// Export the name of the cluster
export const clusterName = cluster.eksCluster.name;
```

Please ensure that you have the necessary prerequisites in place:

- AWS account and AWS CLI configured with appropriate credentials.
- Pulumi CLI installed and set up.
- Access to the repository URL of the `tinyproxy-exporter` Helm chart.

The `kubeconfig` output at the end of the program is the configuration required to connect to your Kubernetes cluster with `kubectl`. It will be printed as a Pulumi stack output once the deployment is complete.

To deploy this Pulumi program, save it to a file called `index.ts`, then run:

```bash
$ pulumi up
```

Refer to the [EKS Cluster documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/eks/api-docs/cluster/) and the [Helm Chart documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/kubernetes/api-docs/helm/v3/chart/) for more information on the resources and options you can specify.