5. GitOps on OpenShift Operations Training

5.1 Setup

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In order to explore GitOps processes, we are going to need appropriate tools: Gitea and ArgoCD.

Gitea is a lightweight Git server written in Go. It allows us to easily host a Git repository which we can use as our single source of truth.

Unfortunately, the default Operator catalog sources don’t contain a Gitea operator, but let’s change that.

Create the Gitea Operator by applying the YAML files from the Github repository:

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Go out into the new world of GitOps and explore Argo CD.

Find out how to access Argo CD’s web interface (which is very handy).

Hints

As usual, there are multiple ways to find out what Argo CD’s dashboard URL is:

oc -n openshift-gitops get routes

Create a new Git repository on your Gitea instance.