Orkestra VS argo-cd

Github Repo - Azure/orkestra: Orkestra is a cloud-native release orchestration and lifecycle management (LCM) platform for the fine-grained orchestration of inter-dependent helm charts and their dependencies (github.com)

Orchestration of a group of complex applications with dependencies between themselves and their subcharts/dependencies is hard

Imagine a scenario in which application that depends on Prometheus, Grafana and Istio. Now let's take it a step further and define a dependency between Istio and it's observability components, Prometheus & Grafana, since Istio itself leverages both Prometheus and Grafana for it's control-plane. In other words we now have a dependency DAG where, the application depends-on Istio depends-on Prometheus & Grafana. Now imagine the application depending on other applications that provide PaaS like infrastructure capabilities required to run the application itself

Defining this dependency order allows all components to spin up both, reliably and efficiently

This would make a huge difference when we are dealing with complex applications like 5G network functions running mission-critical workloads across the network and their lifecycle management (installs/upgrades/rollback). Providers, tend to take releases in a "semi-continuous" manner as opposed to true CD. Meaning, when upgrading, multiple applications and their subcharts may be upgraded in a single release. This is a scenario in which defining the dependency ordering between the applications and their subcharts allows the service providers to limit the blast radius if this go wrong, allowing them to fail fast and rollback without impacting all upgrade-ready apps

Introducing Azure Orkestra https://github.com/Azure/Orkestra that provides the aforementioned capabilities using a familiar Kubernetes declarative CRDscalled ApplicationGroups. Orkestra leverages Argo Workflows to generate DAG workflows to deploy all applications with an application group (and optionally a DAG workflow for the subcharts in each application). The DAG on execution generates HelmRelease objects that are then acted upon by flux helm-operator to reliably perform the helm actions (install, delete, upgrade, rollback)

Introducing Azure Orkestra https://github.com/Azure/Orkestra that provides the aforementioned capabilities and features using familiar Kubernetes declarative objects (CRDs) called ApplicationGroups.

The code above will create the argocd Kubernetes namespace and deploy the latest stable manifest. If you would like to install a specific manifest, have a look here.

In this blog post, we will demonstrate how easy and fast it is to deploy Sveltos on an RKE2 cluster with the help of ArgoCD, register two RKE2 Cluster API (CAPI) clusters and create a ClusterProfile to deploy Prometheus and Grafana Helm charts down the managed CAPI clusters.

Argo CD

$version = (Invoke-RestMethod https://api.github.com/repos/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/latest).tag_name Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/download/$version/argocd-windows-amd64.exe" -OutFile "argocd.exe"

This is cool - I can think of some projects that are amazing as first contributors, and others I can think of that are terrible.

One thing I think the tool doesn't address is why someone should contribute to a particular project. Having stars is interesting, and a proxy for at least historical activity, but also kind of useless here - take argoproj/argo-cd [1] as an example - 14.5k stars, with a backlog of 2.7k issues and an issue tracker that's a real mess.

Either way, I think this tool is neat for trying to gain some experience in a project purely based on language.

[1] https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...

In our case, our team went ahead with Solution B, as that was the only solution present when the issue occurred. However, with the release of Argo CD 2.8.0 (released on August 7, 2023), things have changed - for the better :). Now, there are two ways to handle the sharding issue with the Argo CD Application Controller:

$ kubectl create namespace argocd //Next, let's apply the yaml configuration files for ArgoCd $ kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml //Now we can view the pods created in the ArgoCD namespace. $ kubectl get pods -n argocd //To interact with the API Server we need to deploy the CLI: $ curl --silent --location -o /usr/local/bin/argocd https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/download/v2.4.7/argocd-linux-amd64 $ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/argocd //Expose argocd-server $ kubectl patch svc argocd-server -n argocd -p '{"spec": {"type": "LoadBalancer"}}' //Wait about 2 minutes for the LoadBalancer creation $ kubectl get svc -n argocd //Get pasword and decode it. $ kubectl get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -n argocd -o yaml $ echo WXVpLUg2LWxoWjRkSHFmSA== | base64 --decode

From here, we can explore other developments and tutorials on Kubernetes, such as o11y or observability (PLG, ELK, ELF, TICK, Jaeger, Pyroscope), service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, NSM, Consul Connect, Cillium), and progressive delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker).

lol! Wham! Third choice! https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd

If you mean for each app, I don't think it's listed anywhere though you may find it in `repo-server` logs. Like so