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Access Control

In this chapter, we’re going to discover how to set up a user’s access to Argo CD, what options we have in order to connect with the CLI from a terminal or a CI/CD pipeline, and how role-based access control is performed. We will be checking out the single sign-on (SSO) options, which usually is a feature that you need to pay for, but with Argo CD being completely open source and without a commercial offering, you receive that out of the box.

The main topics we are going to cover are as follows:

  • Declarative users
  • Service accounts
  • Single sign-on

Technical requirements

For this chapter, we assume you already have an installation of Argo CD up and running on your device or on a cloud platform. We don’t need a highly available ...

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