EVERYTHING GITOPS IN KUBERNETES

Local platform is MacOs

1. kind

Local kubernetes cluster with docker. Cluster with config file provided, creates Ingress (nginx) enabled cluster.

Create a kind cluster with extraPortMappings and node-labels.

• extraPortMappings allow the local host to make requests to the Ingress controller over ports 80/443
• node-labels only allow the ingress controller to run on a specific node(s) matching the label selector.

install

kind create cluster --name gitops-k8s --config ./kind/cluster-config.yaml

2. nginx

Kubernetes ingress controller.

install

Installing kind specific installation

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/main/deploy/static/provider/kind/deploy.yaml

3. argocd

ArgoCD installation.

install

• create argocd ns

kubectl create namespace argocd

• install argocd with custom values

helm install argocd argo/argo-cd -n argocd -f ./argocd/values.yaml

• export generated password to ARGOCD_PASS env var

export ARGOCD_PASS=$(kubectl -n default get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d)