GitOps with ArgoCD and ClusterAPI

Deploying an EKS cluster to be used as a Kubernetes Management Cluster. We are going to use KinD, ArgoCD and ClusterAPI

After running the install.sh script ArgoCD URL and credentials will be displayed. All the Applications except the EKS cluster are configured to Auto-Sync and should be in Synced status. By Sync-ing the cluster ArgoCD Application we will deploy an EKS cluster using ClusterAPI.

Prerequisites

- kubectl installed
- AWS credentials
- SSH key for GitHub
- secrets configured

Configure secrets

The following secrets are required in the secrets/kind folder:

• CAPI AWS credentials: Here we can use clusterawsadm

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
 name: aws-variables
 namespace: default
type: Opaque
data:
 AWS_B64ENCODED_CREDENTIALS: WW91J3ZlIGJlZW4gUmljayBSb2xsZWQK==

• GitHub repository credentials

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: argocd-gitops
  namespace: argocd
  labels:
    argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type: repository
stringData:
  type: git
  url: git@github.com:CloudNative-Solutions/argocd-gitops.git
  sshPrivateKey: |
    -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
    WW91J3ZlIGJlZW4gUmljayBSb2xsZWQK==
    -----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: argocd-capi-controller
  namespace: argocd
  labels:
    argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type: repository
stringData:
  type: git
  url: git@github.com:CloudNative-Solutions/argocd-capi-controller.git
  sshPrivateKey: |
    -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
    WW91J3ZlIGJlZW4gUmljayBSb2xsZWQK==
    -----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

Components

The following components will be installed in KinD

• ArgoCD
• cert-manager
• cluster-api-operator
  • capi-controller
  • capa-controller
• argocd-capi-controller

Install

The install script will deploy an EKS cluster using kind, ArgoCD and ClusterAPI

./install.sh