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# Install ArgoCD
To install ArgoCD and ArgoCD CLI, use the following list of commands
```sh
kubectl create namespace argocd
kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml
# Install ArgoCD CLI
curl -sSL -o argocd-linux-amd64 https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/latest/download/argocd-linux-amd64
sudo install -m 555 argocd-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/argocd
rm argocd-linux-amd64
```
To verify whether ArgoCD is up and running
```sh
kubectl get pods -n argocd
```
To expose the ArgoCD server, edit the service manifest of argo-cd server and change the ClusterIP to NodePort. To get a list of ArgoCD services:
```sh
kubectl get svc -n argocd
```
To edit the argocd-server service manifest
```
kubectl edit svc argocd-server -n argocd
```
Change the type from ClusterIP to NodePort
Expose the service
```sh
minikube service argocd-server -n argocd
```
In order to use ArgoCD CLI, a password is required so to extract the password from the secret file and decode
```sh
kubectl edit secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -n argocd
echo | base64 --decode
```
Login using the ArgoCD CLI
```sh
argocd login :
# Username: admin
# Password: Password extracted from argocd-initial-admin-secret file
```
