Breaking change: we publish to ghcr.io instead of docker.io from >v2.6.5 (2023-03-15)

Inactive

This project is depracted. The solution from now on is configure an init container for setup helm secrets tooling according to https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/custom_tools/ Actions are disabled and project is archived.

argocd-customtooling

Approach

Using ArgoCD with helm secrets and sops is well documented if you use gpg or age encryption. The downside of this is a difficult key management. If a member of a midsize team leave and decryption should no longer work for this member you have to renew all encrypted files with a new key. Very challenging and often not possible just in time.

This repo offers a solution. Sops can be used also with Vault Transit Encryption Engine. Team Members get a personal account (token) to this engine. Argo Repo Server can use to decrypt sops based files with an other token. Due the seperate authentification if a team member get´s lost, trust is no longer a problem.

Content

Repo contains custom init container to place this in your deployment of https://hub.docker.com/r/argoproj/argocd.

New Docker Repository location is https://ghcr.io/realestatepilot/argocd-customtooling.

argocd secrets management is supported with additional tools:

• helm secrets
• sops
• vault

Vault Agent uses AppRole Authentication and Auto-Auth. Vault Token is handled by Vault Agent so that the token is renewed regularly according to the TTL set.

If ArgoProj releases new Versions, Github Action triggers a new build for this Docker also.

Usage

Docker parameter:

Environment Variable	Description
VAULT_ADDR	Address of Vault Server, i.e. https://vault.organization.org:8200

Docker mounts:

File	Content
/etc/vault.d/roleid	Approle RoleID
/etc/vault.d/secretid	AppRole SecretID

Configure Hashicorp Vault

A Hashicorp Vault is running and unsealed. So enable Transit Secret Engine.

kubectl exec -n vault -ti vault-0 -- vault secrets enable -path=transit transit
kubectl exec -n vault -ti vault-0 -- sh -c "vault write -f transit/keys/argocd"

After that configure auth between ArgoCD and Vault:

vault auth enable approle

vault policy write argocd -<<EOF
path "transit/decrypt/argocd" {
    capabilities = ["update"]
}
EOF

vault write auth/approle/role/argocd token_policies="argocd" \
    token_ttl=30m

# get soleID
vault read auth/approle/role/argocd/role-id
# get secretID
vault write -force auth/approle/role/argocd/secret-id

Use in ArgoCD Deployment

Assuming ArgoCD is installed via helm. First create a Secret

kubectl create secret generic vault-approle-credentials -n argocd \
  --from-literal=roleid={replace with roleid} \
  --from-literal=secretid='{replace with secretid}'

Modify values.yaml:

server:
  config:
    helm.valuesFileSchemes: >-
      secrets+gpg-import, secrets+gpg-import-kubernetes,
      secrets+age-import, secrets+age-import-kubernetes,
      secrets,secrets+literal,
      https

...     

repoServer:
  image:
    repository: docker.io/realestatepilot/argocd-customtooling
    tag: v2.8.4
  env: 
  - name: VAULT_ADDR
    value: https://vault.wolke8.it
  volumeMounts:
  - name: appauth-role
    mountPath: /etc/vault.d/roleid
    readOnly: true
    subPath: roleid
  - name: appauth-secret
    mountPath: /etc/vault.d/secretid
    readOnly: true
    subPath: secretid
  volumes:
  - name: appauth-role
    secret:
      secretName: vault-approle-credentials
      items:
      - key: roleid
        path: roleid
  - name: appauth-secret
    secret:
      secretName: vault-approle-credentials
      items:
      - key: secretid
        path: secretid

Thank you community!

This docker is based on the fantastic work by ArgoProj and the really useful helm secrets plugin.

Changes

2023-9-25

• argocd registry docker.io/argoproj/argocd has moved to quay.io/argoproj/argocd
• upgrade sops to 3.8.0
• upgrade helm secrets to 4.5.1

2023-03-16

• move docker image from docker.io to ghcr.io

2022-11-03

• restart vault agent if not running #1