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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

Initial setup

Almost all of the tutorials, blogs, and articles out there discuss installing Argo CD in the argocd namespace, and it does make sense as it is a specific namespace—it will not collide with other applications. But there are cases when that might not be possible—I am talking about when multiple instances of Argo CD are installed in the same Kubernetes cluster. This is a valid scenario when we want to split clusters that an Argo CD instance is managing, such as one that takes care of prod clusters and another the non-prod ones. Another scenario could be when they take care of the same clusters but only specific namespaces from it, so a model of an Argo CD instance per team. We will follow the scenario with prod and non-prod installations.

When we have two or more Argo CD installations in the same cluster, there are a couple of things we need to pay attention to. First is the fact that when we install it in the cluster, there are some Custom Resource Definitions...

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