Deploy the debug-toolbox helm chart on AWS EKS

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Deploying the `debug-toolbox` Helm chart on AWS EKS involves several steps. We'll be creating an Amazon EKS cluster and then deploying a Helm chart to it.

First, you'll need to set up an EKS cluster. EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed Kubernetes service provided by AWS, which simplifies running Kubernetes environments.

After the cluster is ready, you use the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource from Pulumi's Kubernetes provider to deploy the `debug-toolbox` Helm chart onto the EKS cluster.

Here is the Pulumi program written in TypeScript, which accomplishes these tasks:

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

// Step 1: Create an EKS cluster.
const eksCluster = new awsx.eks.Cluster("my-cluster", {
    desiredCapacity: 2,
    minSize: 1,
    maxSize: 2,
    instanceType: "t2.medium", // Choose an instance type appropriate for your workload
});

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

// Step 2: Deploy the 'debug-toolbox' helm chart onto the EKS cluster. Make sure Helm is installed locally.
const debugToolboxChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("debug-toolbox", {
    // Replace 'YOUR-CHART-REPOSITORY' with the actual repository URL or name.
    // Also, specify the chart version if required.
    chart: "debug-toolbox",
    version: "1.0.0", // Replace with the version of the chart you wish to deploy.
    fetchOpts: {
        repo: "http://charts.yourcompany.com/", // Replace with the repository hosting the debug-toolbox chart.
    },
}, { provider: eksCluster.provider });

// After deployment, you can interact with the cluster using `kubectl` with the exported kubeconfig,
// or you can interact with the Kubernetes API using Pulumi's Kubernetes provider.
```

This program performs the following actions:

1. **EKS Cluster**: It uses `awsx.eks.Cluster` to create a new EKS cluster with a desired capacity of 2 nodes of type `t2.medium`. You can adjust the instance type and the number of nodes based on your workload.

2. **Cluster configuration**: The `kubeconfig` is exported so that you can interact with the cluster using `kubectl` from your local machine.

3. **Helm chart deployment**: It then defines a Helm chart resource using `k8s.helm.v3.Chart`, specifying the `debug-toolbox` chart from your specified Helm chart repository. Ensure you have the correct chart version and repository URL.

To run this code, save it to a file (e.g., `index.ts`) and use the Pulumi CLI to create a new Pulumi project, select the appropriate AWS and Kubernetes stack configurations, and then run `pulumi up` to provision the resources.

Please make sure that you have the required permissions to create EKS clusters and deploy Helm charts in your AWS account. Also, ensure that Pulumi and the required AWS CLI tools are installed and configured on your local machine.