argocd-example-apps VS sops

I have not yet had the opportunity to test flux extensively. Regarding Argo examples, the Argo team themself maintain such a repo: https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps

Second, when dealing with OCI helm charts, look up the umbrella chart model https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps/blob/master/helm-dependency/README.md. This basically lets you create a helm chat that doesn’t do anything but call your next helm chart as a dependency. I use this with OCI stores helm charts all over the place. Also, in the next ArgoCD release, you should be able to get multiple sources for a sync, but we’ll see when that comes out

argocd app create helm-guestbook --repo https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps.git --path helm-guestbook --dest-server https://kubernetes.default.svc --dest-namespace default

Let’s Fork a sample repo, for example, like this one found here: https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1 kind: Application metadata: name: guestbook namespace: argocd spec: project: default source: repoURL: https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps.git targetRevision: HEAD path: guestbook destination: server: https://kubernetes.default.svc namespace: guestbook

For example if I point to https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps, from the UI, I can see a new repository but no applications

extraObjects: - apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1 kind: Application metadata: name: my-app namespace: argocd spec: project: default source: repoURL: 'https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps' path: guestbook targetRevision: HEAD destination: server: 'https://kubernetes.default.svc' namespace: test syncPolicy: automated: {} syncOptions: - CreateNamespace=true EOF

❯ cd ~/git ❯ gh repo fork https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps.git --clone ✓ Created fork e-minguez/argocd-example-apps Cloning into 'argocd-example-apps'... ... From github.com:argoproj/argocd-example-apps * [new branch] master -> upstream/master ✓ Cloned fork

My script just sets up default .sops.yaml for https://github.com/getsops/sops

You can further edit .sops.yaml(eg have multiple of them) and decide how you split secrets in your directory tree to further customize who can decrypt the secrets.

It works pretty well for prod/dev splits, etc

Mozilla SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) is an open-source command-line tool for managing and storing secrets. It uses secure encryption methods to encrypt secrets at rest and decrypt them at runtime. SOPS supports a variety of key management systems, including AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, and PGP. It's particularly useful in a DevOps context where sensitive data like API keys, passwords, or certificates need to be securely managed and seamlessly integrated into application workflows.

Encrypted secrets thanks to SOPS and Age

We do the exact same thing to keep track of some credentials we use sops[1] and AWS KMS to separate credentials by sensitivity, then use the git differ to view the diffs between the encrypted secrets

Definitely not best practice security-wise, but it works well

[1] https://github.com/getsops/sops

For anyone new to SOPS like I was - https://github.com/getsops/sops

I've found this is largely solved by strictly separating plain config and secrets, and then having secrets pull from GCP secret manager / vault / whatever.

You can then commit all the config (including the secret identifiers) and it all just works so long as you're authenticated with your secret storage system.

We do this for the live configuration as well in line with Gitops and find it to work well.

If you don't want to use a cloud secret manager you can also use something like https://github.com/getsops/sops to commit the encrypted secrets safely

Basically, the simpler the better --just encrypt your secrets and check them in to version control.

We use SOPS[0] for this, and have found it to be pretty nice.

[0]: https://github.com/getsops/sops

The answer is that secrets shouldn't be stored in the git repo at all, but somewhere safe like a password manager or Mozilla's SOPS which people seem to love.

Unfortunately, the SOPS project is in some sort of a limbo state and there has been quite a long period with limited maintenance and unclear position from Mozilla. Despite the project being accepted into the CNCF, it's still unclear what will happen with it going forward.