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How to register Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters in Argo CD

Registering Rancher managed clusters in Argo CD doesn't work out of the box unless the Authorized Cluster Endpoint is used. Many users will prefer an integration of Argo CD via the central Rancher authentication proxy (which shares the network endpoint of the Rancher API/GUI). So let's find out why registering clusters via Rancher auth proxy fails and how to make it work.

Hint: If you are just looking for the solution scroll to the bottom of this page.

Why do i get an error when running argocd cluster add?

Service Account tokens and the Rancher authentication proxy

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Overview

This is a solution of a common problem with Nexus Docker repositories. The administrator has to expose port for "pull", another port for "push", other ports for each hosted repository. This solution is about leveraging Nginx reverse proxy to avoid using these ports.

How it works ?

Given :

• Nexus hostname is "nexus.example.com"
• Nexus web port is 8081