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ArgoCD, Jsonnet and Tanka in 2024
A few years ago, I got to know Jsonnet and I loved it at first sight. I used a nice little tool called tanka to manage my Jsonnet manifests and I got them working together with ArgoCD, and finally I re-deployed my blog using this combo. Everything worked like a charm, until… Recently I upgraded…
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Solved: Uninstallation of config-connector Got Stuck in ArgoCD
The Kubernetes Config Connector is another level of IaC(Infrastructure as Code): It wraps Google Cloud resources like a Cloud Load Balancer with Kubernetes CRDs(Custom Resource Definition) so instead of writing Terraform HCL I can write YAML to manage GCP infrastructure. However when there’s a need to uninstall a config-connector, it got stuck in ArgoCD As…
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Django DB Migration Job with ArgoCD
A Job in Kubernetes is a one-off and immutable task to be carried out during deployment. But what if a job needs to run for each deployment? A new job with the same name can’t be deployed on top of the existing one, given it in completed or failed state. Since Kubernetes 1.23, A TTL(Time…
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Running Minecraft Server in Kubernetes Cluster
A month ago I had an idea to run a Minecraft server in my garage Kubernetes lab. I though it might interest my little Minecraft player at home with some Kubernetes and GitOps stuff but that failed miserably. But at least I knew how to host a Minecraft server in Kubernetes, with ArgoCD too. First…
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Sideloader: An InitContainer to Sideload Stuff to Your Main Container
After having played with ArgoCD for a few days, I came cross a blog post on how to get Grafana Tanka to work with ArgoCD. I like the idea to have Tanka as a plugin of ArgoCD, because: The main ArgoCD docker image doesn’t get bloated by all those binaries we want to use with…
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Run ArgoCD with Istio Service Mesh in a Kubernetes Cluster
It’s been quite a while since I installed Flux CD V2 in my garage Kubernetes lab, as there’s a lot of debate going on between Flux and ArgoCD I decided to give ArgoCD a go. The other reason to try ArgoCD is that it supports Jsonnet. By default installation, ArgoCD will use self-signed TLS certificate…