diff --git a/apps.yaml b/apps.yaml
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-apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
-kind: Application
-metadata:
-  name: bl45p
-  finalizers:
-    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
-spec:
-  project: bl45p
-  destination:
-    server: argus
-    namespace: bl45p
-  source:
-    path: apps
-    repoURL: https://github.com/epics-containers/bl45p.git
-    targetRevision: main
-    helm:
-      version: v3
-  syncPolicy:
-    automated:
-      prune: true
-      selfHeal: true
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diff --git a/apps/.manifest.spec.yaml b/apps/.manifest.spec.yaml
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-apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
-kind: Application
-metadata:
-  name: guestbook
-  # You'll usually want to add your resources to the argocd namespace.
-  namespace: argocd
-  # Add this finalizer ONLY if you want these to cascade delete.
-  finalizers:
-    # The default behaviour is foreground cascading deletion
-    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
-    # Alternatively, you can use background cascading deletion
-    # - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io/background
-  # Add labels to your application object.
-  labels:
-    name: guestbook
-spec:
-  # The project the application belongs to.
-  project: default
-
-  # Source of the application manifests
-  source:
-    repoURL: https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps.git  # Can point to either a Helm chart repo or a git repo.
-    targetRevision: HEAD  # For Helm, this refers to the chart version.
-    path: guestbook  # This has no meaning for Helm charts pulled directly from a Helm repo instead of git.
-
-    # helm specific config
-    chart: chart-name  # Set this when pulling directly from a Helm repo. DO NOT set for git-hosted Helm charts.
-    helm:
-      passCredentials: false # If true then adds --pass-credentials to Helm commands to pass credentials to all domains
-      # Extra parameters to set (same as setting through values.yaml, but these take precedence)
-      parameters:
-      - name: "nginx-ingress.controller.service.annotations.external-dns\\.alpha\\.kubernetes\\.io/hostname"
-        value: mydomain.example.com
-      - name: "ingress.annotations.kubernetes\\.io/tls-acme"
-        value: "true"
-        forceString: true # ensures that value is treated as a string
-
-      # Use the contents of files as parameters (uses Helm's --set-file)
-      fileParameters:
-      - name: config
-        path: files/config.json
-
-      # Release name override (defaults to application name)
-      releaseName: guestbook
-
-      # Helm values files for overriding values in the helm chart
-      # The path is relative to the spec.source.path directory defined above
-      valueFiles:
-      - values-prod.yaml
-
-      # Ignore locally missing valueFiles when installing Helm chart. Defaults to false
-      ignoreMissingValueFiles: false
-
-      # Values file as block file. Prefer to use valuesObject if possible (see below)
-      values: |
-        ingress:
-          enabled: true
-          path: /
-          hosts:
-            - mydomain.example.com
-          annotations:
-            kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
-            kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
-          labels: {}
-          tls:
-            - secretName: mydomain-tls
-              hosts:
-                - mydomain.example.com
-
-      # Values file as block file. This takes precedence over values
-      valuesObject:
-        ingress:
-          enabled: true
-          path: /
-          hosts:
-            - mydomain.example.com
-          annotations:
-            kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
-            kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
-          labels: {}
-          tls:
-            - secretName: mydomain-tls
-              hosts:
-                - mydomain.example.com
-
-      # Skip custom resource definition installation if chart contains custom resource definitions. Defaults to false
-      skipCrds: false
-
-      # Optional Helm version to template with. If omitted it will fall back to look at the 'apiVersion' in Chart.yaml
-      # and decide which Helm binary to use automatically. This field can be either 'v2' or 'v3'.
-      version: v2
-
-    # kustomize specific config
-    kustomize:
-      # Optional kustomize version. Note: version must be configured in argocd-cm ConfigMap
-      version: v3.5.4
-      # Supported kustomize transformers. https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/references/kustomize/kustomization/
-      namePrefix: prod-
-      nameSuffix: -some-suffix
-      commonLabels:
-        foo: bar
-      commonAnnotations:
-        beep: boop-${ARGOCD_APP_REVISION}
-      # Toggle which enables/disables env variables substitution in commonAnnotations
-      commonAnnotationsEnvsubst: true
-      images:
-      - gcr.io/heptio-images/ks-guestbook-demo:0.2
-      - my-app=gcr.io/my-repo/my-app:0.1
-      namespace: custom-namespace
-      replicas:
-      - name: kustomize-guestbook-ui
-        count: 4
-
-    # directory
-    directory:
-      recurse: true
-      jsonnet:
-        # A list of Jsonnet External Variables
-        extVars:
-        - name: foo
-          value: bar
-          # You can use "code" to determine if the value is either string (false, the default) or Jsonnet code (if code is true).
-        - code: true
-          name: baz
-          value: "true"
-        # A list of Jsonnet Top-level Arguments
-        tlas:
-        - code: false
-          name: foo
-          value: bar
-      # Exclude contains a glob pattern to match paths against that should be explicitly excluded from being used during
-      # manifest generation. This takes precedence over the `include` field.
-      # To match multiple patterns, wrap the patterns in {} and separate them with commas. For example: '{config.yaml,env-use2/*}'
-      exclude: 'config.yaml'
-      # Include contains a glob pattern to match paths against that should be explicitly included during manifest
-      # generation. If this field is set, only matching manifests will be included.
-      # To match multiple patterns, wrap the patterns in {} and separate them with commas. For example: '{*.yml,*.yaml}'
-      include: '*.yaml'
-
-    # plugin specific config
-    plugin:
-      # If the plugin is defined as a sidecar and name is not passed, the plugin will be automatically matched with the
-      # Application according to the plugin's discovery rules.
-      name: mypluginname
-      # environment variables passed to the plugin
-      env:
-        - name: FOO
-          value: bar
-      # Plugin parameters are new in v2.5.
-      parameters:
-        - name: string-param
-          string: example-string
-        - name: array-param
-          array: [item1, item2]
-        - name: map-param
-          map:
-            param-name: param-value
-
-  # Sources field specifies the list of sources for the application
-  sources:
-    - repoURL: https://github.com/argoproj/argocd-example-apps.git  # Can point to either a Helm chart repo or a git repo.
-      targetRevision: HEAD  # For Helm, this refers to the chart version.
-      path: guestbook  # This has no meaning for Helm charts pulled directly from a Helm repo instead of git.
-      ref: my-repo  # For Helm, acts as a reference to this source for fetching values files from this source. Has no meaning when under `source` field
-
-  # Destination cluster and namespace to deploy the application
-  destination:
-    # cluster API URL
-    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
-    # or cluster name
-    # name: in-cluster
-    # The namespace will only be set for namespace-scoped resources that have not set a value for .metadata.namespace
-    namespace: guestbook
-
-  # Extra information to show in the Argo CD Application details tab
-  info:
-    - name: 'Example:'
-      value: 'https://example.com'
-
-  # Sync policy
-  syncPolicy:
-    automated: # automated sync by default retries failed attempts 5 times with following delays between attempts ( 5s, 10s, 20s, 40s, 80s ); retry controlled using `retry` field.
-      prune: true # Specifies if resources should be pruned during auto-syncing ( false by default ).
-      selfHeal: true # Specifies if partial app sync should be executed when resources are changed only in target Kubernetes cluster and no git change detected ( false by default ).
-      allowEmpty: false # Allows deleting all application resources during automatic syncing ( false by default ).
-    syncOptions:     # Sync options which modifies sync behavior
-    - Validate=false # disables resource validation (equivalent to 'kubectl apply --validate=false') ( true by default ).
-    - CreateNamespace=true # Namespace Auto-Creation ensures that namespace specified as the application destination exists in the destination cluster.
-    - PrunePropagationPolicy=foreground # Supported policies are background, foreground and orphan.
-    - PruneLast=true # Allow the ability for resource pruning to happen as a final, implicit wave of a sync operation
-    - RespectIgnoreDifferences=true # When syncing changes, respect fields ignored by the ignoreDifferences configuration
-    - ApplyOutOfSyncOnly=true # Only sync out-of-sync resources, rather than applying every object in the application
-    managedNamespaceMetadata: # Sets the metadata for the application namespace. Only valid if CreateNamespace=true (see above), otherwise it's a no-op.
-      labels: # The labels to set on the application namespace
-        any: label
-        you: like
-      annotations: # The annotations to set on the application namespace
-        the: same
-        applies: for
-        annotations: on-the-namespace
-
-    # The retry feature is available since v1.7
-    retry:
-      limit: 5 # number of failed sync attempt retries; unlimited number of attempts if less than 0
-      backoff:
-        duration: 5s # the amount to back off. Default unit is seconds, but could also be a duration (e.g. "2m", "1h")
-        factor: 2 # a factor to multiply the base duration after each failed retry
-        maxDuration: 3m # the maximum amount of time allowed for the backoff strategy
-
-  # Will ignore differences between live and desired states during the diff. Note that these configurations are not
-  # used during the sync process unless the `RespectIgnoreDifferences=true` sync option is enabled.
-  ignoreDifferences:
-  # for the specified json pointers
-  - group: apps
-    kind: Deployment
-    jsonPointers:
-    - /spec/replicas
-  - kind: ConfigMap
-    jqPathExpressions:
-    - '.data["config.yaml"].auth'
-  # for the specified managedFields managers
-  - group: "*"
-    kind: "*"
-    managedFieldsManagers:
-    - kube-controller-manager
-    # Name and namespace are optional. If specified, they must match exactly, these are not glob patterns.
-    name: my-deployment
-    namespace: my-namespace
-
-  # RevisionHistoryLimit limits the number of items kept in the application's revision history, which is used for
-  # informational purposes as well as for rollbacks to previous versions. This should only be changed in exceptional
-  # circumstances. Setting to zero will store no history. This will reduce storage used. Increasing will increase the
-  # space used to store the history, so we do not recommend increasing it.
-  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
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diff --git a/apps/Chart.yaml b/apps/Chart.yaml
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-apiVersion: v2
-name: applications
-description: Applications
-
-# A chart can be either an 'application' or a 'library' chart.
-#
-# Application charts are a collection of templates that can be packaged into versioned archives
-# to be deployed.
-#
-# Library charts provide useful utilities or functions for the chart developer. They're included as
-# a dependency of application charts to inject those utilities and functions into the rendering
-# pipeline. Library charts do not define any templates and therefore cannot be deployed.
-type: application
-
-# This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
-# to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
-# Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 0.1.0
-
-# This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
-# incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
-# follow Semantic Versioning. They should reflect the version the application is using.
-appVersion: "1.0"
diff --git a/apps/templates/all_apps.yaml b/apps/templates/all_apps.yaml
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-{{- $currentScope := . -}}
-{{- range $service, $settings := .Values.services -}}
-# if there are no settings, make settings just {enabled: true)
-{{- $settings := default (dict "enabled" true) $settings -}}
-# set removed to true to take this application off of the cluster
-{{ if ne $settings.removed true }}
-apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
-kind: Application
-metadata:
-  name: {{ $service }}
-  namespace: {{ $currentScope.Release.Namespace }}
-  finalizers:
-    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
-spec:
-  project: {{ default $currentScope.Release.Namespace $currentScope.Values.project }}
-  destination:
-    namespace: {{ $currentScope.Values.destination.namespace }}
-    name: {{ $currentScope.Values.destination.name }}
-  source:
-    repoURL: {{ default $currentScope.Values.source.repoURL $settings.repoURL }}
-    path: services/{{ default $service $settings.folder }}
-    targetRevision: {{ default $currentScope.Values.source.targetRevision $settings.targetRevision }}
-    helm:
-      version: v3
-      valueFiles:
-        - ../beamline_values.yaml
-        - values.yaml
-      {{-  range $settings.files  }}
-      fileParameters:
-        - name: global.files.{{ . | replace "." "_dot_" }}
-          path: config/{{ . }}
-      {{- end }}
-      {{- if eq $settings.enabled false }}
-      parameters:
-        - name: global.enabled
-          value: {{ $settings.enabled | quote }}
-      {{- end -}}
-      {{ if $settings.values -}}
-      values: |
-{{ toYaml $settings.values | indent 8 }}
-      {{- end }}
-  syncPolicy:
-    automated:
-      prune: true
-      selfHeal: true
-    syncOptions:
-      # don't restart pods unless there has been a change
-      - ApplyOutOfSyncOnly=true
-      - RespectIgnoreDifferences=true
----
-{{ end }}
-{{- end -}}
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diff --git a/apps/values.yaml b/apps/values.yaml
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-project: bl45p
-destination:
-  name: pollux
-  namespace: bl45p
-source:
-  repoURL: https://github.com/epics-containers/bl45p.git
-  targetRevision: main
-
-# list of services to deploy. Each item is of the form:
-# - service: service name as it appears in K8S (statefulset/deployment name)
-#   enabled: set to false to turn off an IOC
-#   targetRevision: optional override for targetRevision above
-#   repoURL: optional override for helm chart repo or git repo
-#   chart: chart name if above is a helm repo (needs a token so let's not)
-#   folder: a subfolder of /services, defaults  /services/service_name
-#       used this for shared, templated charts and add some values to customize
-#   values: A dict of key:value to pass as parameters to the target chart
-
-services:
-  # shared epics services ######################################################
-  epics-pvcs:
-  epics-opis:
-
-  # daq services ###############################################################
-  daq-rabbitmq:
-    # this service always restarts if you don't pin it (must have a random seed)
-    targetRevision: 2024.7.5
-  daq-blueapi:
-  daq-nexus:
-
-  # epics iocs #################################################################
-
-  # example of epics templating in a local shared folder
-  bl45p-ea-dcam-01:
-    enabled: false
-    folder: dls-aravis
-    values:
-      P: BL45P-EA-MAP-01
-      ID: bl45p-ea-detector-01
-
-  bl45p-ea-dcam-02:
-    folder: dls-aravis
-    values:
-      P: BL45P-EA-DIFF-01
-      ID: bl45p-ea-detector-02
-
-
-  bl45p-mo-panda-01:
-  bl45p-mo-panda-02:
-  bl45p-mo-brick-01: