Containerize and Run an e-commerce based application in AWS EKS cluster with all best practices (Part - 6)

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Set up CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and GitOps (ArgoCD)

Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

• Create a workflow file ci.yaml under the .github/workflows/ directory.
• The file can be viewed in the repository:

# Create a new branch for the CI changes
git checkout -b cicheck

• Modify the main.go file in the product-catalog directory.

Continuous Deployment with GitOps (ArgoCD)

Why ArgoCD?

ArgoCD is often preferred over tools such as Ansible, shell scripts, or custom Python/Helm scripts because it provides:

• Constant monitoring of the target Kubernetes cluster.
• Automatic deployments whenever the source manifests change.
• State reconciliation: if a change is made directly in the cluster, ArgoCD detects the drift and restores the desired state from the Git repository, treating Git as the single source of truth.