Argo CD

wikipedia:Argo CD (Trends) is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes

• https://argoproj.github.io/cd/
• https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

• kind: Application

Installation

• helm repo add argo https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
• helm install my-argo argo/argo-cd

Features

• Automated deployment of applications to specified target environments
• Automated configuration drift detection (can be disabled) and visualization
• Support for multiple config management/templating tools: Kustomize, Helm, Jsonnet, plain-YAML
• PreSync, Sync, PostSync hooks to support complex application rollouts (e.g. blue/green & canary upgrades)
• Ability to manage and deploy to multiple clusters
• SSO Integration (OIDC, OAuth2, LDAP, SAML 2.0, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft, LinkedIn)
• Multi-tenancy and RBAC policies for authorization
• Rollback/Roll-anywhere to any application configuration committed in Git repository
• Health status analysis of application resources
• Automated or manual syncing of applications to it's desired state
• Web UI which provides real-time view of application activity
• CLI for automation and CI integration: argocd
• Webhook integration: GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab
• Access tokens for automation
• Audit trails for application events and API calls
• Prometheus metrics
• Parameter overrides for overriding helm parameters in Git

Installing

• kubectl create namespace argocd
• kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml

New application

• Application Name
• Project Name
• SYNC POLICY (Manual or automatic)
• SET DELETION FINALIZER
• Sync options
  • SKIP SCHEMA VALIDATION
  • AUTO-CREATE NAMESPACE
  • PRUNE LAST
  • APPLY OUT OF SYNC ONLY
  • SERVER-SIDE APPLY

RESPECT IGNORE DIFFERENCES

• PRUNE PROPAGATION POLICY:
  • REPLACE
  • RETRY

• SOURCE
  • Repository URL
  • Revision
  • Path

DESTINATION

• • Cluster URL
  • URL

• DIRECTORY
  • DIRECTORY RECURSE
  • TOP-LEVEL ARGUMENTS
  • EXTERNAL VARIABLES

• • INCLUDE
  • EXCLUDE

Activites

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/argocd?tab=Votes
• Amazon EKS Workshop

Errors

• Error converting YAML to JSON: yaml

Related terms

• Kubernetes controller
• Ambassador
• IBM Accelerator Tool Kit
• Flux
• Amazon EKS Blueprints ArgoCD module

See also

• argocd [ login | account | app | [ get | rollback | list | create ], argocd app --help, argocd version ] argocd --help
• Argo CD, ArgoCD RBAC, argocd, argocd --help, Flux, argoproj.io, kind: Application
• Deployment, CD, Spinnaker, AWS CodeDeploy, Tekton, Argo CD, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery, Blue-green deployment, Red-black deployment, Feature toggle Continuous Delivery Foundation, ARA, A/b testing, Canary
• GitOps, flux, Argo CD, Weaveworks