💥 The First Time I Tried ArgoCD on EKS, I Broke Production at 2 AM

Chai in hand. Midnight deploy. Everything was green.

📑 Table of Contents

💥 The First Time I Tried ArgoCD on EKS, I Broke Production at 2 AM

☁️ Prerequisites — What You Actually Need

🚀 Installing ArgoCD — The Right Way

📦 Using Helm to Deploy ArgoCD

🔧 Exposing ArgoCD — Ingress or LoadBalancer?

🔐 Securing Access — Because 'admin' Shouldn’t Be the Password

🧠 First Sync — Your Cluster Meets Git

🟩 Final Thoughts

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Terraform to install ArgoCD on EKS?

Is ArgoCD free to use on AWS EKS?

How do I upgrade ArgoCD after installing it on EKS?

And then — boom. Staging goes sideways. Deployments rolling back on their own. Pods evicting. Slack pinging like a war siren.

I remember the time I ran helm install argo-cd without reading the IAM implications. Rookie move. Thought it was just another kubectl apply fest.…