Acessing the ArgoCD UI

Once the containers are up and running in the previous step , Hit the command

kubectl get svc, You should see something like below

Here the main service responsible for the UI of Argo is example-argocd-server, currently it is not accessible to the outside world. So we need to change its type to NodePort.

kubectl edit svc example-argocd-server

You should change the type from ClusterIP -> NodePort. Once done changing click :wq! to save the changes and exit.

Now again run the command kubectl get svc this time you should be able to see a PORT-NUMBER >30000 in example-argocd-server service. Now get the minikube IP , by running the following command

minikube ip

Go to the browser, paste the URL minikube_ip:NodePort and you be able to see the Argo UI.

Decoding the password

• Kubernetes stores the password inside the Secret object, which is generally base64 encoded.

• To decode the password , run the below commands :-

kubectl get secrets

• The secret that we are looking for is example-argocd-cluster

kubect edit secret example-argocd-cluster

• You will see the password in encoded format. Copy it and paste it in <password> section of the below command.

<password> | base64 -d

• The output of the above command is the password for logging into the Argo UI. Copy it.

• The default user is admin.

• Once the login is successful you should see something like below :