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title: Architecture overview
description: This page describes the legacy CDM implementation, which will be deprecated in an upcoming release. We strongly recommend that you transition to the current CDM implementation as soon as possible.
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# Architecture overview

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|   | This page describes the legacy CDM implementation, which will be deprecated in an upcoming release. We strongly recommend that you transition to [the current CDM implementation](../../../../cdm/overview.html) as soon as possible. |

The following diagram provides an overview of a CDM deployment in the Amazon EKS environment.

![CDM cluster uses two subnets and contains two worker nodes.](../../../../_images/eks-components-aws.svg)

* An AWS stack template is used to create a virtual private cloud (VPC).

* Three subnets are configured across three availability zones.

* A Kubernetes cluster is created over the three subnets.

* Three worker nodes are created within the cluster. The worker nodes contain the computing infrastructure to run the CDM components.

* A local file system is mounted to the DS pod for storing directory data backup.

## Next step

* [icon: check-square-o, set=fa][Understand CDM architecture on EKS](#)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa]*[Install third-party software](sw.html)*

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Set up your AWS environment](aws-env.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Get the forgeops repository](forgeops.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Create a Kubernetes cluster](cluster.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Install the Secret Agent operator](secret-agent.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Deploy the Ingress-NGINX controller](nginx.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Deploy certificate manager](cert-manager.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Deploy Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager](prometheus.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Prepare to push Docker images](push.html)