Configuration and command line reference

The argocd-image-updater provides some command line parameters to control the behaviour of its operations. The following is a list of available parameters and their description.

Command "version"

Synopsis

argocd-image-updater version

Description

Prints out the version of the binary and exits.

Command "run"

Synopsis

argocd-image-updater run [flags]

Description

Runs the Argo CD Image Updater, possibly in an endless loop.

Flags

--argocd-auth-token token **

Use token for authenticating to the Argo CD API. This token must be a base64 encoded JWT, as generated by Argo CD.

The token can also be set using the ARGOCD_TOKEN environment variable.

--argocd-grpc-web

If this flag is given, use the gRPC-web protocol to connect to the Argo CD API. This can be useful if your Argo CD API is behind a proxy that does not support HTTP/2, or only accept HTTP/2 on the front end.

Can also be set using the ARGOCD_GRPC_WEB environment variable.

--argocd-insecure

If specified, the certificate of the Argo CD API server is not verified. Useful if you are using a self-signed TLS certificate for the Argo CD API server. As the name implies, this is an insecure setting and should not be used for production systems.

Can also be set using the ARGOCD_INSECURE environment variable.

--argocd-plaintext

If specified, use an unencrypted HTTP connection to the ArgoCD API instead of TLS.

Can also be set using the ARGOCD_PLAINTEXT environment variable.

--argocd-server-addr server address **

Connect to the Argo CD API server at server address. server address must be a valid IP address or DNS host name, optionally with a port specification delimited using a colon, i.e. 10.23.42.5 or argocd-server.argocd:8080. If no port given, the protocol default will be used: Port 80 for plaintext connections, and port 443 for TLS connections.

Can also be set using the ARGOCD_SERVER environment variable.

--disable-kubernetes

If running locally, and you do not have a working connection to any Kubernetes cluster, this flag will prevent Argo CD Image Updater from creating a client to interact with Kubernetes. When Kubernetes access is disabled, pull secrets for images can only be specified from an environment variable.

--dry-run

If this flag is set, Argo CD Image Updater won't actually perform any changes to workloads it found in need for upgrade.

--health-port port **

Specifies the local port to bind the health server to. The health server is used to provide health and readiness probes when running as K8s workload. Use value 0 for port to disable launching the health server.

--interval duration **

Sets the interval for checking whether there are new images available to duration. duration must be given as a valid duration identifier with a unit suffix, i.e. 2m for 2 minutes or 30s for 30 seconds. If no unit is given, milliseconds will be assumed. If set to 0, ArgoCD Image Updater will exit after the first run, effectively disabling the interval. Default value is 2m0s.

--kubeconfig path **

Specify the Kubernetes client config file to use when running outside a Kubernetes cluster, i.e. ~/.kube/config. When specified, Argo CD Image Updater will use the currently active context in the configuration to connect to the Kubernetes cluster.

--loglevel level **

Set the log level to level, where level can be one of trace, debug, info, warn or error.

Can also be set using the IMAGE_UPDATER_LOGLEVEL environment variable.

--match-application-name pattern **

Only process applications that have a valid annotation and matches the given pattern. The pattern is a simple glob pattern and supports file system style wildcards, i.e. *-staging would match any application name with a suffix of -staging. Can be specified multiple times to define more than one pattern, from which at least one has to match.

--match-application-label selector **

Only process applications that have a valid annotation and match the given label selector. The selector is a string that matches the standard kubernetes label label selector syntax. For e.g, custom.label/name=xyz would be a valid label that can be supplied through this parameter. Any applications carrying this exact label will be considered as candidates for image updates. This parameter currently does not support pattern matching on label values (e.g customer.label/name=*-staging). You can specify equality, inequality, or set based requirements or a combination. For e.g., app,app!=foo,custom.label/name=xyz,customer in (a,b,c)

--max-concurrency number **

Process a maximum of number applications concurrently. To disable concurrent application processing, specify a number of 1.

--once

A shortcut for specifying --check-interval 0 --health-port 0. If given, Argo CD Image Updater will exit after the first update cycle.

--registries-conf-path path **

Load the registry configuration from file at path. Defaults to the path /app/config/registries.conf. If no configuration should be loaded, and the default configuration should be used instead, specify the empty string, i.e. --registries-conf-path="".