Accessing Argo CD

For the purpose of this lab, Argo CD server UI has been exposed outside of the cluster using Kubernetes Service of Load Balancer type. To see how to set up Argo CD in the cluster with Amazon EKS Blueprint for Terraform please refer to this guide.

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

~$ARGOCD_SERVER=$(kubectl get svc argocd-server -n argocd -o json | jq --raw-output '.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname')

~$echo "ArgoCD URL: http://$ARGOCD_SERVER"

ArgoCD URL: http://acfac042a61e5467aace45fc66aee1bf-818695545.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com

The initial username is admin. The password is autogenerated. You can get it by running the following command:

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

~$echo "ArgoCD admin password: $ARGOCD_PWD"

Log in to the Argo CD UI using the URL and credentials you just obtained

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 login $(kubectl get svc argocd-server -n argocd -o json | jq --raw-output '.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname') --username admin --password $(kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d) --insecure

'admin:login' logged in successfully

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