Using argocd-autopilot to deploy helm charts

[darnone]

Hello,

We are consumers of helm charts and we deploy some of them using terraform helm-release when the cluster is created - (cluster-scaler, etc), some are apps (nexus),and some are custom. We would like to change this approach to ArgoCD. and would like use argocd-autopilot to bootstrap argocd kick off deployment of the helm charts. However, everything from argocd-autopilot is kustomize based and uses applicationsets and I am not so familiar with either I am having difficulty determining how to use and organize argocd-autopilot to deploy an app-of-apps consisting of helm charts applications like where to put the app-of-app manifest and how to organize the helm charts. Would anyone have any suggestion or pointers on the best way to do this? Any reply is appreciated.

BTW, I came across issue 38 but nothing there worked for me.
Any reply is appreciated.

[todaywasawesome]

@darnone I hope you figured it out since it's been a few months but you asked if you can do an app of apps with your helm charts. The answer is yes!

Here's how I do it:
I create a folder tree in my repo like this:

└── user
    ├── apps
    └── manifests

In my apps folder, I place application yaml's that point to their respective folders resources in the manifests folder. Then I use autopilot to add an app pointing at my apps folder.

You can see an example here: https://github.com/todaywasawesome/elite-cluster

[darnone]

Dan,

Thanks for your reply. No, we have not figured this out as we are still working on auto-pilot setup. Your solution looks complicated as there is not a whole lot of documentation or how to’s around autoipilot. What I was think was to modify the app set to point to an application in another repo that points to a directory containing helm charts defined as ArgoCD apps. Then there are multiple environments to consider. But I suppose, based upon your solution, this could all be done in the auto-pilot repo. I will have to consider that.

David

[todaywasawesome]

@darnone Autopilot does two things

1. Creates application sets so the repo can be bootstrapped from a single apply
2. Provides a cli to bootstrap repositories and install applications

All I'm doing in the setup above is adding a single app to point to a folder I've created that has my app of apps.