Ansible Playbook: Ansible-argocd

Description

• Install ArgoCD and its image updater service

ansible-vault encrypt inventory/group_vars/argocd.yml
ansible-playbook -i inventory/local.ini playbook/provision.yml --ask-vault-pass

• Remove ArgoCD

ansible-vault encrypt inventory/group_vars/argocd.yml
ansible-playbook -i inventory/local.ini playbook/destroy.yml --ask-vault-pass

Requirements

• Python3 and pip installed on your machine
• Make sure you have your DNS A record created for argo.local.example.com pointed to 198.168.1.60

Linting and syntax-check

You can run yamllint to lint your yaml via

yamllint .

You can run syntax-check to verify the playbook's imports via

ansible-playbook playbook/playbook.yml --syntax-check

Configuration

• Inventory File:
• inventory/local.ini Used for installing ArgoCD

[argocd]
localhost

• Variables: inventory/group_vars.yml
  • argocd.yml - This file is encrypted, used for ArgoCD playbook, example config below.

  ---
  # needed to tell ansible we are not ssh'ing and just running locally
  ansible_connection: local
  
  # variables
  ingress_subdomain: "argo.local.example.com"
  argo_cd_password: "password123"

• Playbooks: playbook/*.yml
  • provision.yml is the playbook to run to add ArgoCD.
  • destroy.yml is the playbook to run to remove ArgoCD.
• roles: roles/{rolename}
  • argocd_prereq- Role to run before installing ArgoCD. Installs Brew, Helm, ArgoCD
  • argocd- Role to run to install ArgoCD
  • reset- Role to destroy argocd

Extra config

Allow kubectl from local machine

mkdir -p ~/.kube
scp kazzam@192.168.1.6:~/.kube/config ~/.kube/config