Building a Bridge between Terraform and ArgoCD

Building a Bridge between Terraform and ArgoCD

1. Carlos Santana
Sr. Specialist SA
CNCF Ambassador
AWS
Building a Bridge Between
Argo CD and Terraform
Nov 6, 2023 | 9:50AM - 10:15AM CST
https://sched.co/1Rj1I
Nicholas Morey
Developer Advocate
Akuity

3. Building a Bridge Between
Argo CD and Terraform
The GitOps Bridge Project
gitops-bridge.dev

4. Nicholas Morey
Developer Advocate
Akuity
Building a Bridge Between
Argo CD and Terraform
November 6, 2023 | Chicago, Illinois
Carlos Santana
Sr. Specialist SA
CNCF Ambassador
AWS

5. Infrastructure as Code
Continuously Build and Integrations Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD Flux
Jenkins
Crossplane
AWS
CodePipeline
Github
Actions
GitOps
Flagger AWS
CodeCommit
AWS
CodeBuild
git helm
Terraform CDK Ansible Pulumi
Amazon
ECR
CAPA/CAPI Bicep

6. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
ArgoCD

7. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
ArgoCD

8. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
ArgoCD

9. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
external-dns
ingress-controller
ArgoCD

10. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
ArgoCD

11. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
ArgoCD

12. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
ArgoCD

13. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
ArgoCD

14. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
ArgoCD

15. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
ArgoCD

16. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
ArgoCD

17. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
ArgoCD

18. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
git provider
ArgoCD

19. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
git provider
argocd provider
ArgoCD

20. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
git provider
argocd provider
external secret provider
ArgoCD

21. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
git provider
argocd provider
external secret provider
akp provider
ArgoCD

22. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
kubernetes provider
git provider
argocd provider
external secret provider
akp provider
ArgoCD

23. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …

24. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …

25. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
git provider
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …

26. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
git provider
argocd provider
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …

27. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
kubernetes provider
git provider
argocd provider
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …

28. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD (Addon)
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
kubernetes provider
git provider
argocd provider
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …

29. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD (Addon)
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
gitops-bridge module
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …
EKS + Argo CD in Cluster
DEMO 1
eks module
eks-blueprints-addons
1
3
2
EKS

30. Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD (Addon)
Terraform
Addons (helm charts)
External-dns (metadata)
Ingress-controller (metadata)
external-dns
ingress-controller
Addons ApplicationSets
Cluster Secret
metadata: ..
labels: …
argocd module
Application
name: bootstrap
source: …
GKE + Argo CD in Akuity
DEMO 2
gke module
akp gitops-bridge
1
3
2
GKE

31. Key Takeaways
●Don’t use Terraform to manage Kubernetes resources
●Terraform is the source of truth for cloud metadata
●Leverage ApplicationSets to extract metadata for Applications
●Group clusters by label to manage multiple clusters

32. Call to Action
Try the Demo github.com/gitops-bridge-dev

33. Scaling Multi-cluster Management
with Argo CD and Application Sets
Workshop
W185 - 3:50pm - 5:20pm

34. Thank You!
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Nicholas Morey
Developer Advocate
Akuity
Carlos Santana
Sr. Specialist SA
CNCF Ambassador
AWS
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