# Step 1: Configure the on-premises instance
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Before you can deploy to your on-premises instance, you must configure it. Follow the instructions in [Working with on-premises instances for CodeDeploy](instances-on-premises.md), and then return to this page.

## Install the CodeDeploy agent
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After you configure your on-premises instance, follow the steps for on-premises instances in [Install the CodeDeploy agent](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/codedeploy-agent-operations-install.html) and return to this page.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS CodeDeploy. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query codedeploy` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).