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Argo CD in Practice

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233321

Length 236 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Argo CD

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Liviu Costea

Spiros Economakis

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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Summary

We started this chapter by installing Argo CD with Kustomize. We went with a cloud provider-managed cluster because we needed more nodes to experiment with an HA deployment. We experienced how Argo CD can update itself and how we can make configuration changes to our installation. While a production Kubernetes cluster is highly available and a cloud provider will manage it for us, there are still scenarios when disasters can happen, so we need to have a working disaster recovery strategy. We saw how we can create backups of the Argo CD state and then restore it in a new cluster.

Observability is an important topic and we discussed which metrics can be used to monitor an Argo CD installation, from the OOM container restarts to what a microservice team needs to watch out for. We finished by learning how to link the result of a synchronization to a pipeline so that everything will be automated.

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Authors (3)

Costea

Costea

Liviu Costea started as a developer in the early 2000 and his career path took him to different roles from Developer to Coding Architect and from Team Lead to CTO. In 2012 he transitioned to DevOps, when at a small company, someone had to start working on pipelines and automation because the traditional way wasn't scalable anymore. In 2018 he started with the Platform Team and then he was the Tech Lead in the Release Team at Mambu, where they designed most of the CI/CD pipelines, adopting GitOps practices. They have been live with Argo CD since 2019. More recently he joined Juni, a promising startup, where they are planning the GitOps adoption. For his contributions to OSS projects, including Argo CD, he was named CNCF Ambassador in August 2020.

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Liviu Costea

Liviu Costea

Liviu Costea started as a developer in the early 2000 and his career path took him to different roles from Developer to Coding Architect and from Team Lead to CTO. In 2012 he transitioned to DevOps, when at a small company, someone had to start working on pipelines and automation because the traditional way wasn't scalable anymore. In 2018 he started with the Platform Team and then he was the Tech Lead in the Release Team at Mambu, where they designed most of the CI/CD pipelines, adopting GitOps practices. They have been live with Argo CD since 2019. More recently he joined Juni, a promising startup, where they are planning the GitOps adoption. For his contributions to OSS projects, including Argo CD, he was named CNCF Ambassador in August 2020.

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Spiros Economakis

Spiros Economakis

Spiros started as a Software Engineer in 2010 and went through a series of jobs and roles from Software Engineer, Software Architect to Head of Cloud. In 2013 founded its own startup and that was the first touch with DevOps culture and built with a small team a couple of CI/CD pipelines for a microservice architecture and mobile apps releases. After this in most of the companies involved to influence DevOps culture and automation. In 2019 started as an SRE in Lenses (acquired by Celonis) and soon influenced the organization with Kubernetes, GitOps, Cloud and transitioned to a position as Head of Cloud where he introduced GitOps across the whole company and used Argo CD for bootstrapping k8s clusters with utilities and continuous delivery applications. Now he works in an open-source company which is called Mattermost as a Senior Engineering Manager/SRE where he transformed the old GitOps approach (fluxcd) to GitOps v2.0 with Argo CD and built a scalable architecture for multi-tenancy

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