ArgoCD Helm Source - When is "helm template" performed?

[cristian98149]

I know that GitOps Engine performs a "helm template" in order to render manifest and apply them after the rendering.

The question is: When this happens? At every sync Argo runs an helm template in order to compare desired state and current on?

My deployments have "rollme: {{ randAlphaNum 5 | quote }} " annotation and I'm noticing that each 2 hours the value of this annotation changes, causing the POD to be recreated.

[pasha-codefresh]

It happens inside repo server, when controller doing reconciliation as part of it controller executes generatemanifests api call to repo server. During generatemanifests, repo server doing helm template

[pasha-codefresh]

argo-cd/reposerver/repository/repository.go

Line 1449 in 433b317

targetObjs, command, err = helmTemplate(appPath, repoRoot, env, q, isLocal, gitRepoPaths)

[crenshaw-dev]

each 2 hours

That might be the "hard refresh" timeout.