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Argo Watcher

The project bridges traditional pipelines and GitOps, improving deployment visibility with Argo CD Image Updater and a built-in GitOps repo updater

Why Use Argo Watcher

Argo Watcher not only addresses the critical challenge of visibility during deployments with Argo CD Image Updater but also introduces optional built-in image updater.

It actively monitors the ArgoCD API for application changes and synchronizes the status of your image-related modifications, streamlining and potentially accelerating your deployment processes.

Prerequisites

1. ArgoCD
2. Argo CD Image Updater (we encourage you to try out built-in GitOps repo updater instead)
3. CI/CD solution of your choice

Possible workflow

A possible workflow with Argo Watcher:

1. Build and Deploy: Build a new Docker image of your application and push it to your image repository.
2. Monitoring Setup: Run an Argo Watcher Client job after the new image is pushed. This job oversees the deployment process.
3. Image Update in GitOps repo: Argo CD Image Updater or Argo Watcher commits the updated image tag to the GitOps repository, triggering deployment.
4. Deployment Monitoring: Argo Watcher monitors and reports the deployment status in real-time.
5. Pipeline Status Reporting: The client returns an exit code reflecting the deployment task status, marking the workflow's completion.

[!TIP] In addition to pipeline logs, the whole process can be observed through the web UI.

Documentation

The up to date documentation is available here: argo-watcher.readthedocs.io.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.