Deploying ArgoCD on AWS EKS cluster using Terraform.

About: Before we get on to install the project, let's dig into the terraform block and find out what's actually going on:

• EKS.tf : In this module, we have defined to create AWS EKS Cluster with EKS NodeGroup and SecurityGroup.

• IAM-role.tf : here, we're creating the IAM role and also attaching required policies, such as AmazonEKSWorkerNodePolicy, AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy, and AmazonEC2ContainerRegistry.

  • detailed IAM documentation can be found here

• NAT-gateway.tf : in this module, we're creating ElasticIP (EIP - a static IPv4 address for our Instance) and also "AWS NAT Gateway" in the Public Subnet to let our instances communicate to the Internet.

• subnet.tf : we're creating total 4 subnets (2 public and 2 private) in two different Availability Zones.

• RTB.tf : here in this module, we have routing table for our VPC with it's association between route table, subnet and the internet gateway.

• variables.tf : here we've some variables stored which we gonna map in different module.

• VPC.tf : here we've VPC creating for ArgoCD and Internet Gateway.

• provider.tf : here we've nothing but just declaring our region and provider, "AWS" to let Terraform interact with the available resources of AWS.

• terraform
• awscli
• kubectl
• helm - Kubernetes Package Manager

• clone this repo into your machine and initiate the Terraform using terraform init
• authenticate into your aws console using aws configure
• apply the terraform modules using terraform apply. it will show the preview of resources which are gonna create. confirm to create.

• run kubectl create namespace argocd to isolate resources within our cluster.
• check and list all resources with kubectl get all -n argocd
• install ArgoCD: helm repo add argo https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
• helm install argocd argo/argo-cd -n argocd
• to expose the ArgoCD service to access the web UI: kubectl patch svc argocd-server -n argocd -p '{"spec": {"type": "LoadBalancer"}}'
• to obtain the external IP: kubectl get svc argocd-server -n argocd -w. now use that external IP to access the ArgoCD UI.

• for Linux: kubectl get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -n argocd -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d
• for Windows Powershell: [Text.Encoding]::Utf8.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String((kubectl get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -n argocd -o jsonpath="{.data.password}")))