Hello,
Currently, Digital.ai Release’s integration with ArgoCD does not allow users to dynamically add blocks to the ignoreDifferences field in application manifests. This limitation causes false-positive drift detections during planned maintenance deployments, where scaling a deployment to 0 replicas is intentional but flagged as an anomaly by ArgoCD.
Proposed Solution: Add functionality to dynamically configure ignoreDifferences in the ArgoCD Application manifest, specifically to support maintenance workflows where deployments are temporarily scaled down.
Use Case:
During application deployments, a maintenance deployment (e.g., frontend-fastaccess-maintenance) is started to handle client requests while the main application is updated. At the end of the deployment, this maintenance deployment is scaled down to 0 replicas. ArgoCD currently flags this as an anomaly, even though it is the expected behavior.
Example Configuration Needed:
ignoreDifferences:
- group: apps
kind: Deployment
name: frontend-fastaccess-maintenance
jsonPointers:
- /spec/replicas
Expected Benefits:
Avoid False-Positives: Prevent ArgoCD from flagging intentional scaling operations as anomalies.
Improve Maintenance Workflows: Allow seamless integration of maintenance deployments without manual overrides.
Enhance Flexibility: Provide users with the ability to dynamically adjust ignoreDifferences based on deployment context.

this will impact many applications and more than 300 users

by: Mahdi S. | 8 days ago | Integrations