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Redis – What is the default password of argocd?

I have installed argocd on aks using below command:

kubectl create namespace argocd
kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/master/manifests/install.yaml

Then I change it to load balancer service.

kubectl edit svc argocd-server -n argocd

Now, when I connect to argocd web ui, I wasm’t able to connect with below credentials.

user: admin password: argocd-server-9b77b6575-ts54n

Password got from below command as mentioned in docs.

kubectl get po -n argocd
NAME                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
argocd-application-controller-0      1/1     Running   0          21m
argocd-dex-server-5559bc9679-5mj4v   1/1     Running   1          21m
argocd-redis-74d8c6db65-sxbnt        1/1     Running   0          21m
argocd-repo-server-6866f58df-m59sr   1/1     Running   0          21m
argocd-server-9b77b6575-ts54n        1/1     Running   0          21m

Please suggest me how to login, what is the default credentials.

Even I tried resetting it using this command.

kubectl -n argocd patch secret argocd-secret -p '{"stringData": {
    "admin.password": "$2a$10$Ix3Pd7mywOwVWOK8eSSY0uo60V6Vf6DtZljGuLwGRHQNnWNBbOLhW",
    "admin.passwordMtime": "'$(date +%FT%T%Z)'"
  }}'

But getting this error:

Error from server (BadRequest): invalid character 's' looking for beginning of object key string
Error from server (NotFound): secrets "2021-07-08T12:59:15IST" not found
Error from server (NotFound): secrets "n  }}" not found
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  1. 0

    You get the password by typing

    kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d

    With kubectl get pods you get the pod name, not the password.
    It is common that applications save the password into a Kubernetes Secret. The secret values are base64 encoded, so to update the secret it has to be valid base64
    echo newpassword | base64. Allthough keep in mind updating the secret does not change the application password.

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  2. 0

    user: admin

    To get the password, type the command below:

    kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d
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  3. 0

    A solution to this (Local ArgoCD setup)👇🏼

    1. Patch secret to update password.
    kubectl -n argocd patch secret argocd-secret  -p '{"data": {"admin.password": null, "admin.passwordMtime": null}}'

    That will reset the password to the pod name.

    1. Restart the api-server pod. Do this by scaling the pod replica to zero and then back to one.
    kubectl -n argocd scale deployment argocd-server --replicas=0

once scaled-down, make sure to scale back up and wait a few minutes before

kubectl -n argocd scale deployment argocd-server --replicas=1
    1. New password of the ArgoCD will be your api-server pod name with the numbers at the end name (kubectl -n argocd get po >> to find pod name)

    i.e login:

    • user: admin
    • pass: argocd-server-6cdb9b4b84-jvl58

    That should work.

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  4. 0

    Visit https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/docs/faq.md

    #bcrypt(password)=$2a$10$rRyBsGSHK6.uc8fntPwVIuLVHgsAhAX7TcdrqW/RADU0uh7CaChLa
kubectl -n argocd patch secret argocd-secret 
  -p '{"stringData": {
    "admin.password": "$2a$10$rRyBsGSHK6.uc8fntPwVIuLVHgsAhAX7TcdrqW/RADU0uh7CaChLa",
    "admin.passwordMtime": "'$(date +%FT%T%Z)'"
  }}'

    your new password is "password"

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  5. 0

    To change the password, edit the argocd-secret secret and update the admin.password field with a new bcrypt hash.

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  6. 0

    Using tools like Rancher or Lens (or OpenLens), you can see the secrets.

    You may find the Argocd admin password is in a argocd-initial-admin-secret secret (at least for Argocd v2.3.3) :

    OpenLens :
    Find Argocd admin password using OpenLens

    Rancher :
    Find Argocd admin password using Rancher

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  7. 0

    Initial password could also be retrieved using the argocd CLI. Related documentation

    • Install the CLI (in Mac using homebrew):
    brew install argocd

    Installation instructions for other platforms are here

    • Get the initial password
    argocd admin initial-password -n argocd
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