Argo CD

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

• https://argoproj.github.io/cd/
• https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• Google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=argoCD

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
• 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)
• Automated configuration drift detection and visualization
• 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 its desired state
• Web UI which provides real-time view of application activity
• CLI for automation and CI integration
• 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

Related terms

• Kubernetes controller
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/argocd?tab=Votes
• Spinnaker
• brew install argocd
• Ambassador
• Amazon EKS Workshop
• Tekton
• Kustomize
• jsonnet
• IBM Accelerator Tool Kit

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