Deploy the rke2-sriov helm chart on AWS EKS

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Deploying the RKE2-SRIOV Helm chart on AWS EKS involves several steps with Pulumi. We will be creating an Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster and then deploying a Helm chart onto that cluster. This involves:

1. Creating an EKS cluster.
2. Deploying the RKE2-SRIOV Helm chart onto the EKS cluster.

Below is a Pulumi TypeScript program that achieves this. The program uses the `eks` package to create a managed EKS cluster and the `kubernetes` package to deploy the Helm chart.

Before you start, ensure you have Pulumi installed and configured with your AWS credentials. You should also have `kubectl` and the `helm` CLI tools installed to interact with the cluster and manage Helm charts.

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

// Create an EKS cluster
const cluster = new eks.Cluster("my-cluster", {
    // Specify the desired settings for the EKS cluster.
    // For example, set the min and max size of the NodeGroup (Auto Scaling Group in AWS).
    instanceType: "t3.medium", // Choose an instance type with adequate resources for your workload.
    desiredCapacity: 2,        // Start with 2 worker nodes.
    minSize: 1,                // Minimum number of worker nodes.
    maxSize: 3,                // Maximum number of worker nodes.
    // You can define other settings such as VPC, IAM roles, etc., as needed.
});

// Once the EKS cluster is created, we can deploy Helm charts to it.
// Here, assume that 'rke2-sriov' is the name of the Helm chart, and that it's available in the chart repository.
const rke2SriovChart = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("rke2-sriov", {
    chart: "rke2-sriov",  // The name of the chart. This should be replaced with the actual chart name if different.
    // Assume that the chart is stored in a Helm repository. Specify the repository URL if needed.
    // repo: "https://example.com/helm-charts", // Uncomment and replace with the actual Helm repository hosting the RKE2-SRIOV chart.
    version: "1.0.0", // Specify the version of the chart you want to deploy.
    values: { /* Provide any specific configuration values for the chart here. */ },
}, { provider: cluster.provider });

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

// Use `pulumi up` to deploy this program, and then you can use `kubeconfig` to interact with the EKS cluster.
```

In this program, we start by defining an EKS cluster with a specified instance type and size. For real-world scenarios, you will need to specify a VPC or use the default one, IAM roles, and other configurations as necessary.

After the cluster is set up, we then deploy the RKE2-SRIOV Helm chart. Due to the lack of information about the actual Helm chart for RKE2-SRIOV, the `chart` property in the `new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` call is assumed. You should replace `"rke2-sriov"` and the `repo` with the actual chart information, and add any required configurations under the `values`.

Finally, the program exports the kubeconfig of the EKS cluster, allowing you to manage your Kubernetes resources with `kubectl`.

Please note that this program assumes that there is an existing Helm chart for RKE2-SRIOV. If such a chart does not exist, you would first need to create it or obtain it from a reliable source. If you have further customization needs or specific requirements for running RKE2 with SRIOV on EKS, you'll need to reflect those in the Helm chart values.