When You Need To Log Into Argo CD Using The CLI But There Is A Path In The URL

I wish "argocd admin login --help" made this more obvious, the flag you're looking for is "--grpc-web-root-path"

Published on June 19, 2024

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Scenario: you need to use the argocd CLI, but you must first log in, and Argo CD isn't being served from the root path, e.g. https://argocd.mydomain.tld/argocd

The following are instructions for Ubuntu. You might need to look up instructions for your OS.

bash:Install the argocd CLI

# Download the version of Argo CD CLI matching your current deployment
export $VERSION=v2.10.4
curl -sSL -o argocd https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/download/$VERSION/argocd-linux-amd64
sudo install -m 555 argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd

Now log into Argo CD. It will open a new page in your browser to complete the authentication. If you don't use SSO, remove the --sso flag.

bash:Log into argocd.domain.tld/argocd

# Login using SSO and grpc-web
argocd login argocd.mydomain.tld --sso --grpc-web --grpc-web-root-path "/argocd"