Accessing Argo CD

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For the purpose of this lab, Argo CD server has already been exposed outside of the cluster using Load Balancer type. To see how we set up Argo CD in the cluster with EKS Terraform Blueprint, please refer to this Terraform configuration.

To get the URL from Argo CD service, run the following command:

~$kubectl get service -n argocd argocd-server -o jsonpath="{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[*].hostname}{'\n'}"

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The initial username is admin. The password is autogenerated with the pod name of the ArgoCD API server. You can get it by running the following command:

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

You will be presented with a screen that looks like this:

Argo CD also provides a powerful CLI tool called argocd that can be used to manage applications.

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For the purpose of this lab, argocd CLI has been installed for you. You can learn more about installing the CLI tool by following the instructions.

In order to interact with Argo CD objects using CLI, we need to login to the Argo CD server by running the following commands:

~$ARGOCD_SERVER=$(kubectl get service -n argocd argocd-server -o jsonpath="{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[*].hostname}{'\n'}")

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

~$argocd login $ARGOCD_SERVER --username admin --password $ARGO_PWD --insecure

'admin:login' logged in successfully

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