Deploy the saleor-helm helm chart on AWS EKS

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To deploy the `saleor-helm` Helm chart on AWS EKS using Pulumi, we will go through the following steps:

1. **Create an EKS cluster**: We will use the `eks.Cluster` resource provided by Pulumi's EKS package to create a new Amazon EKS cluster. This will be the Kubernetes cluster where our application will run.

2. **Deploy the Helm chart on the EKS cluster**: Once we have the cluster set up, we will utilize the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource from Pulumi's Kubernetes provider to deploy the `saleor-helm` Helm chart.

Here's a Pulumi program in TypeScript to achieve this. The program will be detailed with comments explaining each step:

```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";

// Step 1: Create an EKS cluster.
const cluster = new eks.Cluster("my-cluster", {
    desiredCapacity: 2, // Set the number of worker nodes.
    minSize: 1,
    maxSize: 3,
    instanceType: "t2.medium", // Choose an instance type for the nodes.
});

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

// Step 2: Deploy the saleor-helm Helm chart to the EKS cluster.
// We assume that the saleor-helm chart is in a Helm repository and we have the URL.
const saleorChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("saleor-helm", {
    chart: "saleor",
    version: "1.0.0", // Replace with the desired chart version.
    fetchOpts: {
        repo: "https://charts.saleor.io/", // The Helm repository URL for Saleor.
    },
    namespace: "default",
}, { provider: new k8s.Provider("k8s-provider", { kubeconfig: cluster.kubeconfig }) });

// Export the Helm chart deployment details.
export const saleorChartStatus = saleorChart.status;
```

In this program:

- We define an EKS cluster with the desired capacity and the instance type for the nodes.
- After defining the cluster, we export the `kubeconfig` which is needed to interact with the cluster using `kubectl`.
- We then define a Helm chart deployment for `saleor-helm`, specifying the chart name, the version, and the repository where the Helm chart is located.

Please replace the version `"1.0.0"` with the actual version you want to deploy and make sure the `repo` URL is correct.

This program creates a new EKS cluster and deploys the `saleor-helm` chart to it. After running this Pulumi program, you should have a running instance of the Saleor application on AWS EKS.

To run this Pulumi program, you'll need to have Pulumi and AWS CLI already set up and configured on your machine. After that, you can execute the following commands in your terminal:

```bash
pulumi up # This command creates the resources defined in the program.
```

The `pulumi up` command will show you a preview of the resources that will be created and ask for confirmation before proceeding. If everything looks good, you can accept the preview, and Pulumi will begin provisioning the resources in AWS.

Remember to check if you need to configure any additional values for the Saleor chart to suit your needs, which can be passed via the `values` property of the `Chart` resource.