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# Architecture overview

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][Get the forgeops and forgeops-extras repositories](forgeops.html)

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

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