openshift-docs/modules/learning-getting-started-create-cluster.adoc

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= Creating a cluster

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You can create your {product-title} cluster using the {rosa-cli}.

.Procedure
. *Optional:* Run the following command to create the account-wide roles and policies, including the Operator policies and the AWS IAM roles and policies:
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[IMPORTANT]
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Only complete this step if this is the _first time_ you are deploying {product-title} in this account and you have _not_ yet created your account roles and policies.
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[source,terminal]
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$ rosa create account-roles --mode auto --yes
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. Run the following command to create the cluster:
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[source,terminal]
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$ rosa create cluster --cluster-name $CLUSTER_NAME \
--subnet-ids ${PUBLIC_SUBNET_ID},${PRIVATE_SUBNET_ID} \
--hosted-cp \
--region $REGION \
--oidc-config-id $OIDC_ID \
--sts --mode auto --yes
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The cluster is ready after about 10 minutes. The cluster will have a control plane across three AWS availability zones in your selected region and create two worker nodes in your AWS account.