How to configure argocd cli in Konvoy – D2iQ

Although the Dispatch CLI has some Dispatch gitops subcommands achieved by wrapping some of the functions of the argocd CLI, advanced users may want to configure the argocd CLI. In this article, we describe how to do so.

Firstly, the binary must be downloaded and made executable. Please make sure to specify the version ($VERSION):

curl -sSL -o /usr/local/bin/argocd https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/download/$VERSION/argocd-linux-amd64

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/argocd

Accessing argocd-server API server:

To access the argocd-server, the operator can use port-forwarding to reach the dispatch-argocd-server service from the localhost:

kubectl get svc dispatch-argocd-server -n dispatch
NAME                     TYPE        CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
dispatch-argocd-server   ClusterIP   10.0.37.173           80/TCP,443/TCP   4d1h

kubectl port-forward svc/dispatch-argocd-server -n dispatch 8080:443
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8080 -> 8080

After setting the port-forward, the argocd api server can be accessed at the localhost:8080:

argocd login localhost:8080

Another option to expose the argocd api server is to modify the service type for the dispatch-argocd-server from ClusterIp to LoadBalancer with the following command:

kubectl patch svc dispatch-argocd-server -n dispatch -p '{"spec": {"type": "LoadBalancer"}}'

kubectl get svc dispatch-argocd-server -n dispatch   
NAME                     TYPE           CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP    PORT(S)                      AGE
dispatch-argocd-server   LoadBalancer   10.0.24.206   192.168.2.46   80:32766/TCP,443:32161/TCP   27m

Then, the argocd api server can be reached at the External-IP of the service:

argocd login 192.168.2.46              
WARNING: server is not configured with TLS. Proceed (y/n)? y
Username: admin
Password: 
'admin' logged in successfully
Context '192.168.2.46' updated

Setting argocd admin password:

In argocd 1.8 and earlier releases, the initial password is autogenerated to be the pod name of the Argo CD API server. As the version of argocd shipped with Dispatch 1.3 is v1.6.2, the initial password can be retrieved with the command:

kubectl get pods -n dispatch -l app.kubernetes.io/name=argocd-server -o name | cut -d'/' -f 2

To change the initial password, the following command can be executed:

argocd account update-password