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Resource Health

Overview

Argo CD provides built-in health assessment for several standard Kubernetes types, which is then surfaced to the overall Application health status as a whole. The following checks are made for specific types of kubernetes resources:

Deployment, ReplicaSet, StatefulSet, DaemonSet

  • Observed generation is equal to desired generation.
  • Number of updated replicas equals the number of desired replicas.

Service

  • If service type is of type LoadBalancer, the status.loadBalancer.ingress list is non-empty, with at least one value for hostname or IP.

Ingress

  • The status.loadBalancer.ingress list is non-empty, with at least one value for hostname or IP.

Job

  • If job .spec.suspended is set to 'true', then the job and app health will be marked as suspended.

PersistentVolumeClaim

  • The status.phase is Bound

Argocd App

The health assessment of argoproj.io/Application CRD has been removed in argocd 1.8 (see #3781 for more information). You might need to restore it if you are using app-of-apps pattern and orchestrating synchronization using sync waves. Add the following resource customization in argocd-cm ConfigMap:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: argocd-cm
  namespace: argocd
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: argocd-cm
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: argocd
data:
  resource.customizations: |
    argoproj.io/Application:
      health.lua: |
        hs = {}
        hs.status = "Progressing"
        hs.message = ""
        if obj.status ~= nil then
          if obj.status.health ~= nil then
            hs.status = obj.status.health.status
            if obj.status.health.message ~= nil then
              hs.message = obj.status.health.message
            end
          end
        end
        return hs

Custom Health Checks

Argo CD supports custom health checks written in Lua. This is useful if you:

  • Are affected by known issues where your Ingress or StatefulSet resources are stuck in Progressing state because of bug in your resource controller.
  • Have a custom resource for which Argo CD does not have a built-in health check.

There are two ways to configure a custom health check. The next two sections describe those ways.

Way 1. Define a Custom Health Check in argocd-cm ConfigMap

Custom health checks can be defined in

  resource.customizations: |
    <group/kind>:
      health.lua: |

field of argocd-cm. If you are using argocd-operator, this is overridden by the argocd-operator resourceCustomizations.

The following example demonstrates a health check for cert-manager.io/Certificate.

data:
  resource.customizations: |
    cert-manager.io/Certificate:
      health.lua: |
        hs = {}
        if obj.status ~= nil then
          if obj.status.conditions ~= nil then
            for i, condition in ipairs(obj.status.conditions) do
              if condition.type == "Ready" and condition.status == "False" then
                hs.status = "Degraded"
                hs.message = condition.message
                return hs
              end
              if condition.type == "Ready" and condition.status == "True" then
                hs.status = "Healthy"
                hs.message = condition.message
                return hs
              end
            end
          end
        end

        hs.status = "Progressing"
        hs.message = "Waiting for certificate"
        return hs

In order to prevent duplication of the custom health check for potentially multiple resources, it is also possible to specify a wildcard in the resource kind, and anywhere in the resource group, like this:

  resource.customizations: |
    ec2.aws.crossplane.io/*:
      health.lua: |
        ...

  resource.customizations: |
    "*.aws.crossplane.io/*":
      health.lua: | 
        ...

Important

Please note the required quotes in the resource customization health section, if the wildcard starts with *.

The obj is a global variable which contains the resource. The script must return an object with status and optional message field. The custom health check might return one of the following health statuses:

  • Healthy - the resource is healthy
  • Progressing - the resource is not healthy yet but still making progress and might be healthy soon
  • Degraded - the resource is degraded
  • Suspended - the resource is suspended and waiting for some external event to resume (e.g. suspended CronJob or paused Deployment)

By default health typically returns Progressing status.

NOTE: As a security measure, access to the standard Lua libraries will be disabled by default. Admins can control access by setting resource.customizations.useOpenLibs.<group_kind>. In the following example, standard libraries are enabled for health check of cert-manager.io/Certificate.

data:
  resource.customizations.useOpenLibs.cert-manager.io_Certificate: "true"
  resource.customizations.health.cert-manager.io_Certificate:
    -- Lua standard libraries are enabled for this script

Way 2. Contribute a Custom Health Check

A health check can be bundled into Argo CD. Custom health check scripts are located in the resource_customizations directory of https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd. This must have the following directory structure:

argo-cd
|-- resource_customizations
|    |-- your.crd.group.io               # CRD group
|    |    |-- MyKind                     # Resource kind
|    |    |    |-- health.lua            # Health check
|    |    |    |-- health_test.yaml      # Test inputs and expected results
|    |    |    +-- testdata              # Directory with test resource YAML definitions

Each health check must have tests defined in health_test.yaml file. The health_test.yaml is a YAML file with the following structure:

tests:
- healthStatus:
    status: ExpectedStatus
    message: Expected message
  inputPath: testdata/test-resource-definition.yaml

To test the implemented custom health checks, run go test -v ./util/lua/.

The PR#1139 is an example of Cert Manager CRDs custom health check.

Please note that bundled health checks with wildcards are not supported.