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Deploy the Applications

Deploy the Applications

Learn how to deploy applications in the namespaces.

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Create the production namespace

Now that we've established we’ll allow the apps in the Argo CD production project to be deployed to the production namespace, we should probably create it.

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kubectl create namespace production

Next, let’s take a look at the manifests that will define our applications. They're located in the helm directory.

ls -1 helm

The output is as follows.

Chart.yaml
templates
Files in the helm directory

View the files

At first glance, this looks like a typical minimalistic Helm chart. Actually, it doesn't look like that. It's a Helm chart. What makes it “special” are the resources defined in the templates.

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ls -1 helm/templates

The output is as follows.

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devops-paradox.yaml
devops-toolkit.yaml

From the names, we can probably guess that those two files define two applications. Let’s take a look at one of those.

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cat helm/templates/devops-toolkit.yaml

The output is as follows.

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apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: devops-toolkit
  namespace: argocd
  finalizers:
    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
spec:
  project: production
  source:
    path: helm
    repoURL: https://github.com/vfarcic/devops-toolkit.git
    targetRevision: HEAD
    helm:
      values: |
        image:
          tag: latest
        ingress:
          host: devopstoolkitseries.com
      version: v3
  destination:
    namespace: production
    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
  syncPolicy:
    automated:
      selfHeal: true
      prune: true

Note: We'll get hands-on experience with the concepts and commands discussed in this lesson in the project "Hands-on: Deploying Applications Using GitOps Principles" right after this chapter.

The definition is accomplishing a similar objective as the argocd app create command we ...