Setup and installation of 'ARGO-CD' on AWS

This section describes how to launch and connect to Effortless Deployments on Kubernetes with Argo CD on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

1. Open Effortless Deployments on Kubernetes with Argo CD VM listing on AWS marketplace

2. Click on Continue to subscribe.

• Login with your credentials and follow the instruction.
• Subscribe to the product and click on Continue to configuration button.
• Select a Region where you want to launch the VM(such as US East (N.Virginia))

• Click on Continue to Launch Button.
• Choose Action: You can launch it through EC2 or from Website.(Let’s choose Launch from website)

• Optionally change the EC2 instance type. (This defaults to t2.xlarge instance type, 4 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM.)
• Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names.

• Select the Security Group. Be sure that whichever Security Group you specify have ports 22 (for ssh), 3389 (for RDP) and 443 (for HTTPS) exposed. Or you can create the new SG by clicking on “Create New Based On Seller Settings” button. Provide the name and description and save the SG for this instance.

• Be sure to download the key-pair which is available by default, or you can create the new key-pair and download it.

• Click on Launch..

• Effortless Deployments on Kubernetes with Argo CD will begin deploying.

3. A summary page displays. To see this instance on EC2 Console click on EC2 Console link.

4. On the EC2 Console page, instance is up and running. To connect to this instance through putty, copy the IPv4 Public IP Address

5. Open putty, paste the IP address and browse your private key you downloaded while deploying the VM, by going to **SSH->Auth->Credentials **, click on Open. Enter ubuntu as userid

6. Once connected, change the password for ubuntu user using below command

sudo passwd ubuntu

7. Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local Windows Machine using RDP protocol or Linux Machine using Remmina.

From your local windows machine, goto “start” menu, in the search box type and select “Remote desktop connection”. In the “Remote Desktop connection” wizard, copy the public IP address and click connect

8. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide the username (e.g “ubuntu”) and the password set in the above “Reset password” step to authenticate. Click OK

9. Now you are connected to the out of box Effortless Deployments on Kubernetes with Argo CD VM’s desktop environment via Windows Machine.

10. To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page,then from your local Linux machine, goto menu, in the search box type and select “Remmina”.

Note: If you don’t have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, first Install Remmina as per your linux distribution.

11. In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.

12. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in above reset password step to authenticate. Click OK

13. Now you are connected to out of box Effortless Deployments on Kubernetes with Argo CD VM’s desktop environment via Linux machine.

14. To access the ARGO-CD Web Interface, copy the Public address of the VM from VM’s overview page and enter in the browser as https://public_ip_of_vm. Make sure to use https in the URL. Browser will show you the security warning, except the warning and continue to login page.

NOTE: If you are getting time out error or UI is not coming then please wait 5-10 minutes and try again.

15. To retrieve the argocd ui password, connect via terminal and run below command.

kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d

16. On the login page, enter admin as username and password we retrived from the above command and sign in.

17. This is the ARGO-CD Home page.

18. Please make sure to update the admin user password after your first login. To do so go to “user info” menu in left pane and click “Update Password” button.

19. Click on update password, provide the new password and save the changes. Logout and login with new password.

For more details please refer to ARGO-CD Official documentation