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/
• Terms: Aplications (kind: Application), projects (kind: AppProject), kind: ApplicationSet
• ArgoCD generators: Git Generator: directory and files

Installation

• helm repo add argo https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
• helm install argocd
• Install ArgoCD CLI: brew install argocd

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
• GnuPG signature verification: SignatureKeys

Installing

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

Activites

• Amazon EKS Workshop
• ArgoCD GnuPG signature verification (GPG)
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/argocd?tab=Votes
• Migrate ApplicationSet to a new project

Errors

• Error converting YAML to JSON: yaml
• skipping sync attempt to

Related terms

• Kubernetes controller
• Ambassador
• IBM Accelerator Tool Kit
• Flux
• Flagger.app
• Amazon EKS Blueprints ArgoCD module
• Tekton
• ArgoCD security

See also

• ArgoCD: argocd [ login | account | app | get | rollback | list | create ], argocd app --help, version | gpg ] --help, --grpc-web --insecure --server, Terraform ArgoCD
• Argo CD, ArgoCD RBAC, GPG argocd, argocd --help, Flux, argoproj.io, kind: Application, kind: AppProject, kind: ApplicationSet, ArgoCD best practices, argocd-cm, Versions