argocd-vault-plugin VS argocd-example-apps

ArgoCD supports SOPS with the vault Plugin.

repoServer: rbac: - verbs: - get - list - watch apiGroups: - '' resources: - secrets - configmaps initContainers: - name: download-tools image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8 env: - name: AVP_VERSION value: 1.11.0 command: [sh, -c] args: - >- curl -L https://github.com/argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin/releases/download/v$(AVP_VERSION)/argocd-vault-plugin_$(AVP_VERSION)_linux_amd64 -o argocd-vault-plugin && chmod +x argocd-vault-plugin && mv argocd-vault-plugin /custom-tools/ volumeMounts: - mountPath: /custom-tools name: custom-tools extraContainers: - name: avp-helm command: [/var/run/argocd/argocd-cmp-server] image: quay.io/argoproj/argocd:v2.4.8 securityContext: runAsNonRoot: true runAsUser: 999 volumeMounts: - mountPath: /var/run/argocd name: var-files - mountPath: /home/argocd/cmp-server/plugins name: plugins - mountPath: /tmp name: tmp-dir - mountPath: /home/argocd/cmp-server/config name: cmp-plugin - name: custom-tools subPath: argocd-vault-plugin mountPath: /usr/local/bin/argocd-vault-plugin volumes: - configMap: name: cmp-plugin name: cmp-plugin - name: custom-tools emptyDir: {} - name: tmp-dir emptyDir: {} # If you face issue with ArgoCD CRDs installation, then uncomment below section to disable it #crds: # install: false

argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin

We’re using https://github.com/argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin which allows you to define secrets in git (works with more backends than just hashicorp vault despite the name). The documentation took me a bit to figure out, but so far it works.

Argo CD Vault plugin

I used argocd vault plugin https://github.com/IBM/argocd-vault-plugin

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