Self Managed Argo CD - App of Everything

Table of Contents

Introduction
Clone Repository
Create Local Kubernetes Cluster
Git Repository Hierarchy
Create App Of Everything Pattern
Intall Argo CD Using Helm
Demo With Sample Application
Cleanup

Introduction

This project aims to install a self-managed Argo CD using the App of App pattern. Full instructions and explanation can be found in the Medium article Self Managed Argo CD — App Of Everything.

Clone Repository

Clone kurtburak/argocd repository to your local device.

git clone https://github.com/kurtburak/argocd.git

Create Local Kubernetes Cluster

Intall kind.

brew install kind

Create local Kubernetes Cluster using kind

kind create cluster — name my-cluster

Check cluster is running and healthy

kubectl cluster-info — context kind-my-cluster

Kubernetes control plane is running at https://127.0.0.1:50589
KubeDNS is running at https://127.0.0.1:50589/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use ‘kubectl cluster-info dump’.

Git Repository Hierarchy

Folder structure below is used in this project. You are free to change it.

argocd/
├── argocd-appprojects      # stores ArgoCD App Project's yaml files
├── argocd-apps             # stores ArgoCD Application's yaml files
├── argocd-install          # stores Argo CD installation files
│ ├── argo-cd               # argo/argo-cd helm chart
│ └── values-override.yaml  # custom values.yaml for argo-cd chart

Create App Of Everything Pattern

Open argocd-install/values-override.yaml with your favorite editor and modify related values.

vi argocd-install/values-override.yaml

Or update it with your values.

cat << EOF > argocd-install/values-override.yaml
server:
  configEnabled: true
  config:
    repositories: |
      - type: git
        url: https://github.com/kurtburak/argocd.git
      - name: argo-helm
        type: helm
        url: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
  additionalApplications: 
    - name: argocd
      namespace: argocd
      destination:
        namespace: argocd
        server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
      project: argocd
      source:
        helm:
          version: v3
          valueFiles:
          - values.yaml
          - ../values-override.yaml
        path: argocd-install/argo-cd
        repoURL: https://github.com/kurtburak/argocd.git
        targetRevision: HEAD
      syncPolicy:
        syncOptions:
        - CreateNamespace=true
    - name: argocd-apps
      namespace: argocd
      destination:
        namespace: argocd
        server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
      project: argocd
      source:
        path: argocd-apps
        repoURL: https://github.com/kurtburak/argocd.git
        targetRevision: HEAD
        directory:
          recurse: true
          jsonnet: {}
      syncPolicy:
        automated:
          selfHeal: true
          prune: true
    - name: argocd-appprojects
      namespace: argocd
      destination:
        namespace: argocd
        server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
      project: argocd
      source:
        path: argocd-appprojects
        repoURL: https://github.com/kurtburak/argocd.git
        targetRevision: HEAD
        directory:
          recurse: true
          jsonnet: {}
      syncPolicy:
        automated:
          selfHeal: true
          prune: true
  additionalProjects: 
  - name: argocd
    namespace: argocd
    additionalLabels: {}
    additionalAnnotations: {}
    description: Argocd Project
    sourceRepos:
    - '*'
    destinations:
    - namespace: argocd
      server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
    clusterResourceWhitelist:
    - group: '*'
      kind: '*'
    orphanedResources:
      warn: false
EOF

Intall Argo CD Using Helm

Go to argocd directory.

cd argocd/argocd-install/

Intall Argo CD to argocd namespace using argo-cd helm chart overriding default values with values-override.yaml file. If argocd namespace does not exist, use --create-namespace parameter to create it.

helm install argocd ./argo-cd \
    --namespace=argocd \
    --create-namespace \
    -f values-override.yaml

Wait until all pods are running.

kubectl -n argocd get pods

NAME                                            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS
argocd-application-controller-bcc4f7584-vsbc7   1/1     Running   0       
argocd-dex-server-77f6fc6cfb-v844k              1/1     Running   0       
argocd-redis-7966999975-68hm7                   1/1     Running   0       
argocd-repo-server-6b76b7ff6b-2fgqr             1/1     Running   0       
argocd-server-848dbc6cb4-r48qp                  1/1     Running   0

Get initial admin password.

kubectl -n argocd get secrets argocd-initial-admin-secret \
    -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d

Forward argocd-server service port 80 to localhost:8080 using kubectl.

kubectl -n argocd port-forward service/argocd-server 8080:80

Browse http://localhost:8080 and login with initial admin password.

Demo With Sample Application

Create an application project definition file called sample-project.

cat << EOF > argocd-appprojects/sample-project.yaml
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: AppProject
metadata:
  name: sample-project
  namespace: argocd
spec:
  clusterResourceWhitelist:
  - group: '*'
    kind: '*'
  destinations:
  - namespace: sample-app
    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
  orphanedResources:
    warn: false
  sourceRepos:
  - '*'
EOF

Push changes to your repository.

git add argocd-appprojects/sample-project.yaml
git commit -m "Create sample-project"
git push

Create a saple applicaiton definition yaml file called sample-app under argocd-apps.

cat << EOF >> argocd-apps/sample-app.yaml
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: sample-app
  namespace: argocd
spec:
  destination:
    namespace: sample-app
    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
  project: sample-project
  source:
    path: sample-app/
    repoURL: https://github.com/kurtburak/argocd.git
    targetRevision: HEAD
  syncPolicy:
    syncOptions:
    - CreateNamespace=true
    automated:
      selfHeal: true
      prune: true
EOF