Argo CD Agent architecture


Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.19

Describes the architecture and terminology used in the Argo CD Agent, detailing how agent-based GitOps communication and synchronization works between the control plane and workload clusters.

Red Hat OpenShift Documentation Team

Abstract

This document provides an overview of the Argo CD Agent architecture and explains how it differs from the traditional Argo CD architecture for managing multi-cluster configurations. It also describes the available agent modes and a few example use-cases.

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