argocd-cloudtruth-plugin

argocd-cloudtruth-plugin

The CloudTruth configuration management plugin for ArgoCD When attached to an argocd project, it replaces template (<templates.template_name>), parameter and secret references (<parameter_name>) with the values looked up from CloudTruth.

Installation

ArgoCD plugin installation is somewhat of a manual process, you can either use the install/*.yaml files as a guide, or run install/setup.sh to use kubectl patch to apply them:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudtruth/argocd-cloudtruth-plugin/main/install/setup.sh | sh

OR

git clone https://github.com/cloudtruth/argocd-cloudtruth-plugin
./argocd-cloudtruth-plugin/install/setup.sh

Usage

Current versions of this plugin (>= 0.7.0) only support ArgoCD v2.6 and newer due to the changes in the configuration management plugin. It gets installed as a sidecar container against the argocd-repo-server.

After installing the plugin, create the file .argocd-cloudtruth-plugin in your Application's repo(+path) to allow this plugin to be used for that Application. The file can be empty or contain a yaml dictionary to override the plugin's configuration for that repo. Since this CMP is defined as a sidecar, without creating this file, the plugin can only be enabled for a project by manually editing the Application manifest.

The configuration for using the plugin can be set and read in one of 4 ways (in order of priority - last wins):

• During install, the CLOUDTRUTH_* settings are added to Secret[argocd-cloudtruth-plugin] and are made available as system environment variables with an envFrom mount to argocd-repo-server. You can edit the Secret or re-run the installer to change them.
• Application specific settings can be added to the plugin activation file (.argocd-cloudtruth-plugin containing yaml) that you check in to your repo to enable it to use the plugin. The keys in the file get transformed to look like environment variables in order to determine matches for priority, so a key in the file of cloudtruth-project will get compared to and override the environment variable CLOUDTRUTH_PROJECT
• Plugin specific environment variables can be set as part of its attachment to the argocd Application
• Plugin specific params can be set as part of its attachment to the argocd Application

The settings that control the plugin's behavior are as follows:

Once the plugin has been enabled for an Application, you can change settings by visiting the plugin settings from the PARAMETERS tab in the App Details section of the Application:

Once enabled, the plugin will act upon the yaml files produced by the Argo project, performing substitutions of text like <PARAMETER_OR_SECRET_NAME> or <templates.TEMPLATE_NAME> with the lookup of the value of PARAMETER_OR_SECRET_NAME or TEMPLATE_NAME in CloudTruth for the given CLOUDTRUTH_PROJECT, CLOUDTRUTH_ENVIRONMENT and CLOUDTRUTH_TAG

Argo CD CLI Usage

Adding the plugin to existing projects

To add The CLoudTruth plugin to your existing Application, create the .argocd-cloudtruth-plugin trigger file in your Application's repo and Sync.

Override plugin parameters

You can set the plugin environment parameters on create or set them after the app is deployed with the --plugin-env option. This allows you to change app config settings on the next sync.

create

Note that one SHOULD NOT provide the --config-management-plugin argument, as that only works for the deprecated ConfigMap structure for plugins

argocd app create YOUR_APP --repo https://github.com/YOUR_REPO --path YOUR_PATH_IN_REPO --dest-server YOUR_K8S_SERVER --dest-namespace default --config-management-plugin argocd-cloudtruth-plugin --plugin-env CLOUDTRUTH_PROJECT=YOUR_CLOUDTRUTH_PROJECT

set

argocd app set YOUR_APP --plugin-env CLOUDTRUTH_PROJECT=YOUR_CLOUDTRUTH_PROJECT

Running the plugin locally

You can use docker to run the plugin against a directory tree as shown below:

docker run --platform linux/amd64 -v $(pwd):/data --workdir /data cloudtruth/argocd-cloudtruth-plugin /usr/bin/argocd-cloudtruth-plugin --environment production --project myProject --api-key ""

The plugin will also read configuration from a .argocd-cloudtruth-plugin file if present. The --platform is only neccessary if running on a non-intel platform (e.g. apple silicon)

Development

After checking out the repo, run make. To generate new client stubs, run make clean before running make

Developing against a local minikube cluster

In order to build and test the plugin against a local cluster, it needs to be compiled for the correct platform and the sidecar image pushed into the cluster to avoid having to push it to an external image repo.

• Add to argocd-repo-server cloudtruth plugin sidecar manifest: imagePullPolicy: Never
• Run installer (install/seup.sh) to add plugin to cluster
• Set minikube docker env:

  eval $(minikube docker-env)
  

• Run docker build against Dockerfile.dev within the same terminal as docker env:

  docker build -t cloudtruth/argocd-cloudtruth-plugin -f Dockerfile.dev .
  

• Restart argocd-server:

  kubectl rollout restart -n argocd deployment/argocd-repo-server
  

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/cloudtruth/argocd-cloudtruth-plugin