vSphere Supervisor Services

Once the ArgoCD Operator has been deployed successfully on the Supervisor, deploy an ArgoCD object within your vSphere Namespace. To do so, follow the steps below.

1. Download the example as a reference for a simple deployment.
2. Log in to the Supervisor - 10.220.3.18 is the Supervisor IP address in this example - with a user that has owner/edit access to the vSphere Namespace - user@vsphere.local in this example.

$ kubectl vsphere login --server 10.220.3.18 -u user@vsphere.local

3. To deploy ArgoCD to the vSphere Namespace - demo1 in this example - set the context appropriately.

$ kubectl config use-context demo1

4. Use kubectl to deploy the file -argocd-instance.yaml in this example - that was downloaded in Step 1.

$ kubectl apply -f argocd-instance.yaml

5. Upon successful deployment, the following should be the status. Use the EXTERNAL-IP address of the argocd-server service to connect to the UI - 10.220.3.20 in this example.

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
demo1-argocd-application-controller-0       1/1     Running   0          5m9s
demo1-argocd-redis-cd8c958fd-jltgd          1/1     Running   0          5m9s
demo1-argocd-repo-server-6ccccfc999-rm4ng   1/1     Running   0          5m9s
demo1-argocd-server-945597778-2qfjk         1/1     Running   0          5m9s

$ kubectl get svc
NAME                                          TYPE           CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                      AGE
...
demo1-argocd-server                           LoadBalancer   10.96.0.88    10.220.3.20   80:30803/TCP,443:30679/TCP   6m41s
...

6. If you encounter a DockerHub rate-limiting for the Redis image, use a proxy-cache or host the image on another registry. The sample argocd-instance.yaml shows how to reference an alternate image location.