Chapter 1. Running GitOps control plane workloads on infrastructure nodes You can use infrastructure nodes to isolate infrastructure workloads for two primary purposes: To prevent billing costs associated with the number of subscriptions To separate maintenance and management You can use the OpenShift Container Platform to run GitOps control plane workloads on infrastructure nodes. This includes the Operator pod and the control plane workloads created by the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator in the openshift-gitops namespace by default, including the default Argo CD instance in this namespace. With GitOps control plane workloads, you can securely and declaratively isolate the infrastructure workloads by creating multiple isolated Argo CD instances in a cluster, with full control over what an Argo CD instance is capable of. In addition, you can manage these Argo CD instances declaratively across multiple developer namespaces. By using taints, you can ensure that only infrastructure components run on these nodes. Note All other Argo CD instances installed in user namespaces are not eligible to run on infrastructure nodes. 1.1. Moving GitOps control plane workloads to infrastructure nodes You can move the GitOps control plane workloads installed by the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps to the infrastructure nodes. The following are the control plane workloads that you can move: kam deployment cluster deployment (backend service) openshift-gitops-applicationset-controller deployment openshift-gitops-dex-server deployment openshift-gitops-redis deployment openshift-gitops-redis-ha-haproxy deployment openshift-gitops-repo-sever deployment openshift-gitops-server deployment openshift-gitops-application-controller statefulset openshift-gitops-redis-server statefulset Procedure Label existing nodes as infrastructure by running the following command: USD oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra= Edit the GitOpsService custom resource (CR) to add the infrastructure node selector: USD oc edit gitopsservice -n openshift-gitops In the GitOpsService CR file, add runOnInfra field to the spec section and set it to true . This field moves the control plane workloads in openshift-gitops namespace to the infrastructure nodes: apiVersion: pipelines.openshift.io/v1alpha1 kind: GitopsService metadata: name: cluster spec: runOnInfra: true Optional: Apply taints and isolate the workloads on infrastructure nodes and prevent other workloads from scheduling on these nodes. USD oc adm taint nodes -l node-role.kubernetes.io/infra infra=reserved:NoSchedule infra=reserved:NoExecute Optional: If you apply taints to the nodes, you can add tolerations in the GitOpsService CR: spec: runOnInfra: true tolerations: - effect: NoSchedule key: infra value: reserved - effect: NoExecute key: infra value: reserved To verify that the workloads are scheduled on infrastructure nodes in the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps namespace, click any of the pod names and ensure that the Node selector and Tolerations have been added. Note Any manually added Node selectors and Tolerations in the default Argo CD CR will be overwritten by the toggle and the tolerations in the GitOpsService CR. 1.2. Moving the GitOps Operator pod to infrastructure nodes You can move the GitOps Operator pod to the infrastructure nodes. Prerequisites You have installed the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator in your cluster. You have access to the cluster with cluster-admin privileges. Procedure Label an existing node as infrastructure node by running the following command: USD oc label node <node_name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra= 1 1 Replace <node_name> with the name of the node you want to label as infrastructure node. Example output node/<node_name> labeled Edit the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Subscription resource by running the following command: USD oc -n openshift-gitops-operator edit subscription openshift-gitops-operator Add nodeSelector and tolerations to the spec.config field in the Subscription resource: Example Subscription apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1 kind: Subscription metadata: name: openshift-gitops-operator namespace: openshift-gitops-operator spec: config: nodeSelector: 1 node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: 2 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra operator: Exists effect: NoSchedule 1 This ensures that the operator pod is only scheduled on an infrastructure node. 2 This ensures that the pod is accepted by the infrastructure node. Example output subscription.operators.coreos.com/openshift-gitops-operator edited Verify that the GitOps Operator pod is running on the infrastructure node by running the following command: USD oc -n openshift-gitops-operator get po -owide Example output NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE NOMINATED NODE READINESS GATES openshift-gitops-operator-controller-manager-abcd 2/2 Running 0 11m 94.142.44.126 <node_name> <none> <none> 1 1 Ensure that the listed <node_name> is the node with the node-role.kubernetes.io/infra label. 1.3. Additional resources For more information about taints and tolerations, see Controlling pod placement using node taints . For more information about infrastructure machine sets, see Creating infrastructure machine sets .

Commands:
oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=
oc edit gitopsservice -n openshift-gitops
apiVersion: pipelines.openshift.io/v1alpha1 kind: GitopsService metadata: name: cluster spec: runOnInfra: true
oc adm taint nodes -l node-role.kubernetes.io/infra infra=reserved:NoSchedule infra=reserved:NoExecute
spec: runOnInfra: true tolerations: - effect: NoSchedule key: infra value: reserved - effect: NoExecute key: infra value: reserved
oc label node <node_name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra= 1
node/<node_name> labeled
oc -n openshift-gitops-operator edit subscription openshift-gitops-operator
apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1 kind: Subscription metadata: name: openshift-gitops-operator namespace: openshift-gitops-operator spec: config: nodeSelector: 1 node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: 2 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra operator: Exists effect: NoSchedule
subscription.operators.coreos.com/openshift-gitops-operator edited
oc -n openshift-gitops-operator get po -owide
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE NOMINATED NODE READINESS GATES openshift-gitops-operator-controller-manager-abcd 2/2 Running 0 11m 94.142.44.126 <node_name> <none> <none> 1