Setting Up ArgoCD on Minikube for a Local Dev Environment

Prerequisites Before starting, make sure you have these installed: Docker (running) minikube ≥ v1.30 kubectl ≥ v1.27 Helm ≥ v3.12 (optional but recommended) argocd CLI Step 1 — Start Minikube minikube start --driver = docker Verify it's running: kubectl get nodes Expected output: NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION minikube Ready control-plane 30s v1.30.x Step 2 — Create the ArgoCD Namespace kubectl create namespace argocd Step 3 — Install ArgoCD Apply the official ArgoCD install manifest: kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml Verify all pods are up: kubectl get pods -n argocd Expected output: NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS argocd-application-controller-0 1/1 Running 0 argocd-applicationset-controller-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx 1/1 Running 0 argocd-dex-server-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx 1/1 Running 0 argocd-notifications-controller-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx 1/1 Running 0 argocd-redis-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx 1/1 Running 0 argocd-repo-server-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx 1/1 Running