Akuity Agent Resource Customization

Resource Customization feature allows you to configure how ArgoCD interacts with, monitors, and manages your Kubernetes resources to suit your specific needs.

Providing the Group/Kind of the resource, you can customize the following:

1. Resource Health
2. Resource Actions
3. Ignore Differences

Refer to the corresponding OSS documentation for more information on these features.

Enable Resource Customization

To enable Resource Customization, follow these steps:

1. Go to Argo CD → your instance → Settings → Agent Resource Customization.

2. Click on Add New to add a new customization.

   

3. Fill in the applicable fields for the customization:

   • Group/Kind: The API group and kind of the resource you want to customize.
   • Health Check (optional): The health check configuration for the resource.
   • Actions (optional): The resource actions configuration for the resource.
   • Ignore Differences (optional): The ignore differences configuration for the resource.

4. Click Save to apply the changes.

Cron Job

If you would like to create a job from a CronJob, in the ArgoCD UI, you can enable this feature in the Agent Resource Customization settings.

note

Enabling/Disabling this feature will require manually re-applying the cluster manifests for all connected clusters once confirmed.

Follow these steps to enable job creation from CronJobs:

1. Go to Argo CD → your instance → Settings → Agent Resource Customization.

2. Toggle the Enable Job creation from CronJobs toggle.

   

3. Click Save to apply the changes.

This setting allows you to create a job from the CronJobs in the ArgoCD UI.
It adds the following rules to the akuity-agent ClusterRole in your cluster:

- apiGroups:
  - batch
  resources:
  - jobs
  verbs:
  - create