Argo CD is a GitOps-based continuous deployment tool designed for Kubernetes that ensures automated deployments and real-time synchronization with Kubernetes clusters.
GitOps uses Git repositories as a single source of truth for managing infrastructure and application deployment, enabling version control and automated synchronization of states.
Argo CD follows the GitOps approach, detecting discrepancies between actual and desired states defined in Git and ensuring automatic synchronization.
Key features of Argo CD include declarative deployment, automated synchronization, RBAC, self-healing capabilities, and monitoring.
Argo CD architecture consists of API server, Repo server, and Application controller, ensuring application management, synchronization, and self-healing abilities.
Installation of Argo CD involves creating a namespace, installing components, exposing services, and accessing via UI or CLI.
Argo CD is preferred over Jenkins for Kubernetes deployments due to its declarative approach, continuous sync, UI/CLI support, and flexibility with Helm and YAML.
Flux CD is an alternative to Argo CD, suitable for lightweight deployments and integration with Kubernetes-native tools like Helm Operator.
Argo CD simplifies Kubernetes deployments by automating synchronization with Git repositories, reducing manual errors and providing a Kubernetes-native deployment approach.
For teams managing Kubernetes applications seeking automated GitOps workflow, integrating Argo CD into the DevOps pipeline is recommended for efficient continuous deployment.