Prerequisites for the AWS PCS multi-cluster login node configuration script

System requirements

• Linux OS with systemd support

• Root privileges for system configuration

Required commands and packages

• bash – Shell interpreter (version 4.0+)

• curl – For AWS IMDS v2 metadata retrieval

• jq – JSON processor for parsing AWS API responses

• aws – AWS CLI v2 to run AWS PCS API actions and for Secrets Manager access

• systemctl – systemd service management

• find – File system search utility

• grep – Text pattern matching

• sed – Stream editor for text manipulation

• sort – Text sorting utility

• tail – Displays the last lines of a file

• mkdir – Directory creation

• chmod – Changes file permissions

• chown – Changes file ownership

• ldconfig – Dynamic linker configuration

AWS requirements

• An AWS PCS cluster that runs Slurm version 25.05 or later

• AWS credentials configured (through an IAM role, credentials file, or environment variables)

• Permissions for:

  • pcs:GetCluster

  • secretsmanager:GetSecretValue (if you use an alternate secret)

System users and groups

• The slurm user and group must exist on the system

Slurm installation

• Slurm must be installed in the same location as AWS PCS Slurm installer packages:

  /opt/aws/pcs/scheduler/slurm-version