ArgoCD

For a long time I’ve been wanting to try GitOps tools, but I haven’t had the chance to try them for real on the projects I was working on. As now I have some spare time I’ve decided I’m going to play a little with Argo CD, Flux and Kluctl to test them and be able to use one of them in a real project in the future if it looks appropriate. On this post I will use Argo-CD Autopilot to install argocd on a k3d local cluster installed using OpenTofu to test the autopilot approach of managing argocd and test the tool (as it manages argocd using a git repository it can be used to test argocd as well). Installing tools locally with arkadeRecently I’ve been using the arkade tool to install kubernetes related applications on Linux servers and containers, I usually get the applications with it and install them on the /usr/local/bin folder. For this post I’ve created a simple script that checks if the tools I’ll be using are available and installs them on the $HOME/.arkade/bin folder if missing (I’m assuming that docker is already available, as it is not installable with arkade): #!/bin/sh # TOOLS LIST ARKADE_APPS="argocd argocd-autopilot k3d kubectl sops tofu" # Add the arkade binary directory to the path if missing case ":${PATH}:" in *:"${HOME}/.arkade/bin":*) ;; *) export PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/.arkade/bin" ;; esac # Install or update arkade if command -v arkade >/dev/null; then echo "Trying to update the arkade application" sudo arkade update else echo "Installing the arkade application" curl -sLS https://get.arkade.dev | sudo sh fi echo "" echo "Installing tools with arkade" echo "" for app in $ARKADE_APPS; do app_path="$(command -v $app)" || true if [ "$app_path" ]; then echo "The application '$app' already available on '$app_path'" else arkade get "$app" fi done cat <<EOF Add the ~/.arkade/bin directory to your PATH if tools have been installed there EOF...