aws-argocd

What problem(s) are we looking to solve?

• Setting up argocd can be tricky.
• Off the shelf options (AWS EKS) can be expensive.

This repo leverages terraform, argoCD and EC2 in creating ephemeral environments.

prerequisites

• create AWS account here
• associate credentials as per here
• run one time terraform setup with just init

deploy aws infrastructure

• run just deploy
  • note it will take a few minutes to spin up!
• access app via app-url output value.
• once finished ensure you run just destroy

log into argocd

• run just get-password and obtain from terminal
  • in the below example the password is slZ9tG0Sp2O8fjbH

   ,     #_
   ~\_  ####_        Amazon Linux 2023
  ~~  \_#####\
  ~~     \###|
  ~~       \#/ ___   https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2023
   ~~       V~' '->
    ~~~         /
      ~~._.   _/
         _/ _/
       _/m/'
slZ9tG0Sp2O8fjbH

• username is admin
• access argocd UI via argocd-url output value.
  • note you may be (initially) blocked and have to bypass in the browser

references

• minikube
• kubectl
• terraform
• EC2
• argocd

gotchas

• error (M1 / terraform)

╷
│ Error: Incompatible provider version
│ 
│ Provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/template v2.2.0 does not have a package available for your current platform, darwin_arm64.

• fix

brew install kreuzwerker/taps/m1-terraform-provider-helper
m1-terraform-provider-helper activate
m1-terraform-provider-helper install hashicorp/template -v v2.2.0