ServerSide diff is not working

[kotyara85]

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Describe the bug

I set annotation argocd.argoproj.io/compare-options=ServerSideDiff=true

Here's helm template sample:

{{- define "k8sServiceHost" }}
  {{- if lookup "v1" "ConfigMap" "kube-public" "cluster-info" }}
    {{- $configmap := (lookup "v1" "ConfigMap" "kube-public" "cluster-info") }}
    {{- $kubeconfig := get $configmap.data "kubeconfig" }}
    {{- $k8sServer := get ($kubeconfig | fromYaml) "clusters" | mustFirst | dig "cluster" "server" "" }}
    {{- $uri := (split "https://" $k8sServer)._1 | trim }}
    {{- (split ":" $uri)._0 | quote }}
  {{- end }}
{{- end }}

which does work correctly with --dry-run=server using helm command

Template:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: test
data:
    host: {{ include "k8sServiceHost" . }}

results into:

apiVersion: v1
data:
  host: ''
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  labels:
    argocd.argoproj.io/instance: test
  name: test
  namespace: test

Version
1.12.6

[crenshaw-dev]

I don't think this is related to ServerSideDiff. Argo CD doesn't support Helm lookups (i.e. Helm's --dry-run=server. ServerSideDiff uses the Kubernetes API's server-side dry run feature, not Helm's.

[andrii-korotkov-verkada]

Btw, is your version actually 2.12.6, not 1.12.6?

[andrii-korotkov-verkada]

This looks like a Helm question, not specific to ArgoCD, if I understand correctly that the manifest with an empty host is the generated one which ArgoCD reads.