• Install argocd (Approach #1)

kubectl create namespace argocd
kubectl apply -n argocd -f <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml>

• Install from digitalocean marketplace (Approach #2)

• Install argocd CLI (not required but recommended)

brew install argocd

• Access the argocd ui

kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443

• Get the argocd password

kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}"

• Debugging

kubectl logs -n argocd deployment/argocd-application-controller