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Argo CD in Practice

You're reading from   Argo CD in Practice The GitOps way of managing cloud-native applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233321
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liviu Costea Liviu Costea
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Spiros Economakis Spiros Economakis
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of GitOps and Argo CD
2. Chapter 1: GitOps and Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Argo CD 4. Part 2: Argo CD as a Site Reliability Engineer
5. Chapter 3: Operating Argo CD 6. Chapter 4: Access Control 7. Part 3: Argo CD in Production
8. Chapter 5: Argo CD Bootstrap K8s Cluster 9. Chapter 6: Designing Argo CD Delivery Pipelines 10. Chapter 7: Troubleshooting Argo CD 11. Chapter 8: YAML and Kubernetes Manifests 12. Chapter 9: Future and Conclusion 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up an HA installation

Since we have already used the HA option with Kustomize, let’s see what components are installed, how they handle the HA part, and if there is anything else we can do:

  • API server: This handles all the exterior interaction, so if you are using the CLI or the UI or creating a client, you will communicate with the API. The HA manifests already set two instances for this pod.
  • Repository server: This is responsible for creating the final manifests to apply to the cluster; manifests generation is complicated because of all the templating supported by Argo CD, such as Helm 2 or 3, Kustomize, and Jsonnet. The HA manifests come with two replicas.
  • Application controller: This is where the work is initiated, where the control loop is implemented, and application sync takes place. Initially, you were only able to have one instance, but now, you can have one instance per cluster shard. The HA manifests use one instance of the controller.
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