This repository contains some example Kubernetes/ArgoCD manifests. It is useful for testing the functionalities, configurations and syncOptions of ArgoCD.

1. We will be using a kind cluster for our tests. Please follow the installation instructions before continuing.

2. Create a new kind cluster called kind-gitops-test for our tests:

   kind create cluster --name kind-gitops-test --kubeconfig ~/.kube/kind-gitops-test

   Creating cluster "kind-gitops-test" ...
    ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.26.3) 🖼
    ✓ Preparing nodes 📦
    ✓ Writing configuration 📜
    ✓ Starting control-plane 🕹️
    ✓ Installing CNI 🔌
    ✓ Installing StorageClass 💾
   Set kubectl context to "kind-kind-gitops-test"
   You can now use your cluster with:
   
   kubectl cluster-info --context kind-kind-gitops-test --kubeconfig ~/.kube/kind-gitops-test
   
   Have a question, bug, or feature request? Let us know! https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/#community 🙂
   

3. Export the KUBECONFIG variable in your shell.

   export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/kind-gitops-test

4. Install ArgoCD on the kind cluster in a new argocd namespace:

   You can find the latest instructions on the ArgoCD Getting Started documentation page.

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

5. Get the intial admin secret for your test argocd instance:

   kubectl get secret -n argocd argocd-initial-admin-secret --template='{{ index .data.password | base64decode }}{{ "\n" }}'

6. Port-forward the argocd-server service to get access to the web-ui/api

   kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443

7. Navigate to https://localhost:8080/, ingore the certificate warning and login with user admin and the initial admin password.

8. [optional] Navigate to User info and Click the UPDATE PASSWORD button, change the password and reauthenticate

9. Follow the instructions in the README file of each example.