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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/Ignore Resource Updates
  4. Kubernetes Known Type Fields

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 → Resource Customizations.

  2. Click on Add Customization to open modal, where you can configure your customization.

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  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.
    • Ignore Resource Updates (optional): The ignore resource updates configuration for the resource. This configuration can be disabled so that it doesn't effect anything by a switch "Enable Ignore Resource Updates" below the customizations table.
    • Known Type Fields (optional): The known Kubernetes types configuration for the resource.

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  4. Click Add to confirm your configuration.

  5. Click Save to save your resource customization settings.

Modifying Resource Customization​

You can edit and delete your resource customizations by using table action buttons and saving settings.

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Cron Job​

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

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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 → Resource Customizations.

  2. Toggle the Enable Job creation from CronJobs toggle.

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  3. Confirm toggling the setting in the confirmation modal.

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