Argo CD integration with Kubernetes
Argo CD is a prominent GitOps tool that’s designed for Kubernetes and enables automated, CD by syncing application definitions, configurations, and environments directly from a Git repository. This section aims to shed more light on the architecture of Argo CD and its synchronization mechanism. Argo CD follows a client-server architecture:
- Argo CD API server: The core service that provides the primary API for Argo CD, it handles user requests and performs application state analyses and reporting.
- Repository server: This service is responsible for fetching repository contents and returning manifest files. It understands various configuration management tools, such as Helm, Kustomize, Jsonnet, and others, enabling Argo CD to work with multiple types of manifests.
- Application controller: This is the key component that continuously monitors application definitions and configurations in the Git repository. It compares the current...
