Red Hat OpenShift GitOps release notes

With this update, you can add environment variables to the Notifications controller. GITOPS-2313

With this update, the default nodeSelector "kubernetes.io/os": "linux" key-value pair is added to all workloads such that they only schedule on Linux nodes. In addition, any custom node selectors are added to the default and take precedence if they have the same key. GITOPS-2215

With this update, you can set custom node selectors in the Operator workloads by editing their GitopsService custom resource. GITOPS-2164

With this update, you can use the RBAC policy matcher mode to select from the following options: glob (default) and regex.GITOPS-1975

With this update, you can customize resource behavior using the following additional subkeys:

With this update, to use the Environments feature on the Developer tab you must upgrade if you are using a Red Hat OpenShift GitOps version prior to 1.7 and OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 or above. GITOPS-2415

With this update, applications can be created in any namespace in the same cluster and still managed by the same control-plane’s ArgoCD instance. This is done by adding a new label argocd.argoproj.io/managed-by-cluster-argocd to the namespace added in spec.sourceNamespaces of the Argo CD custom resource. GITOPS-2341

Before this update, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps releases were affected by an issue of Dex pods failing with CreateContainerConfigError error when the anyuid SCC was assigned to the Dex service account. This update fixes the issue by assigning a default user id to the Dex container. GITOPS-2235

Before this update, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps used the RHSSO (Keycloak) through OIDC in addition to Dex. However, with a recent security fix, the certificate of RHSSO could not be validated when configured with a certificate not signed by one of the well-known certificate authorities. This update fixes the issue; you can now provide a custom certificate to verify the KeyCloak’s TLS certificate while communicating with it. In addition, you can add rootCA to the Argo CD custom resource .spec.keycloak.rootCA field. The Operator reconciles such changes and updates the oidc.config in argocd-cm config map with the PEM encoded root certificate. GITOPS-2214

Before this update, the application controllers restarted multiple times due to the unresponsiveness of liveness probes. This update fixes the issue by removing the liveness probe in the statefulset application controller. GITOPS-2153

Before this update, the Operator did not reconcile the mountsatoken and ServiceAccount settings for the repository server. While this has been fixed, deletion of the service account does not revert to the default. GITOPS-1873

Workaround: Manually set the spec.repo.serviceaccountfield to thedefault service account. GITOPS-2452

Before this update, the subscription health check was marked degraded for missing InstallPlan when more than 5 Operators were installed in a project. This update fixes the issue. GITOPS-2018

Before this update, the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator would spam the cluster with a deprecation notice warning whenever it detected that an Argo CD instance used deprecated fields. This update fixes this issue and shows only one warning event for each instance that detects a field. GITOPS-2230

From OpenShift Container Platform 4.12, it is optional to install the console. This fix updates the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator to prevent errors with the Operator if the console is not installed. GITOPS-2352

Before this update, in a large set of applications the application controllers were restarted multiple times due to the unresponsiveness of liveness probes. This update fixes the issue by removing the liveness probe in the application controller StatefulSet object. GITOPS-2153

Before this update, the RHSSO certificate cannot be validated when it is set up with a certificate which is not signed by certificate authorities. This update fixes the issue and now you can provide a custom certificate which will be used in verifying the Keycloak’s TLS certificate when communicating with it. You can add the rootCA to the Argo CD custom resource .spec.keycloak.rootCA field. The Operator reconciles this change and updates the oidc.config field in the argocd-cm ConfigMap with the PEM-encoded root certificate. GITOPS-2214

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: ArgoCD
metadata:
  name: example-argocd
  labels:
    example: basic
spec:
  sso:
    provider: keycloak
    keycloak:
     rootCA: |
       ---- BEGIN CERTIFICATE ----
       This is a dummy certificate
       Please place this section with appropriate rootCA
       ---- END CERTIFICATE ----
  server:
    route:
      enabled: true

Before this update, a terminating namespace that was managed by Argo CD would block the creation of roles and other configuration of other managed namespaces. This update fixes this issue. GITOPS-2277

Before this update, the Dex pods failed to start with CreateContainerConfigError when an SCC of anyuid was assigned to the Dex ServiceAccount resource. This update fixes this issue by assigning a default user id to the Dex container. GITOPS-2235

Previously, the Argo CD ApplicationSet controller was a technology preview (TP) feature. With this update, it is a general availability (GA) feature. GITOPS-1958

With this update, the latest releases of the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps are available in latest and version-based channels. To get these upgrades, update the channel parameter in the Subscription object YAML file: change its value from stable to latest or a version-based channel such as gitops-1.6. GITOPS-1791

With this update, the parameters of the spec.sso field that controlled the keycloak configurations are moved to .spec.sso.keycloak. The parameters of the .spec.dex field have been added to .spec.sso.dex. Start using .spec.sso.provider to enable or disable Dex. The .spec.dex parameters are deprecated and planned to be removed in version 1.9, along with the DISABLE_DEX and .spec.sso fields for keycloak configuration. GITOPS-1983

With this update, the Argo CD Notifications controller is available as an optional workload that can be enabled or disabled by using the .spec.notifications.enabled parameter in the Argo CD custom resource. The Argo CD Notifications controller is available as a Technical Preview feature. GITOPS-1917

With this update, resource exclusions for Tekton pipeline runs and tasks runs are added by default. Argo CD, prunes these resources by default. These resource exclusions are added to the new Argo CD instances that are created from the OpenShift Container Platform. If the instances are created from the CLI, the resources are not added. GITOPS-1876

With this update, you can select the tracking method that by Argo CD uses by setting the resourceTrackingMethod parameter in the Operand’s specification. GITOPS-1862

With this update, you can add entries to the argocd-cm configMap using the extraConfig field of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Argo CD custom resource. The entries specified are reconciled to the live config-cm configMap without validations. GITOPS-1964

With this update, on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Environments Details page in the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps developer perspective shows history of the successful deployments of the application environments, along with links to the revision for each deployment. GITOPS-1269

With this update, you can manage resources with Argo CD that are also being used as template resources or "source" by an Operator. GITOPS-982

With this update, the Operator will now configure the Argo CD workloads with the correct permissions to satisfy the Pod Security Admission that has been enabled for Kubernetes 1.24. GITOPS-2026

With this update, Config Management Plugins 2.0 is supported. You can use the Argo CD custom resource to specify sidebar containers for the repo server. GITOPS-776

With this update, all communication between the Argo CD components and the Redis cache are properly secured using modern TLS encryption. GITOPS-720

This release of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps adds support for IBM Z and IBM Power on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10. Currently, installations in restricted environments are not supported on IBM Z and IBM Power.

Before this update, the system:serviceaccount:argocd:gitops-argocd-application-controller cannot create resource "prometheusrules" in API group monitoring.coreos.com in the namespace webapps-dev. This update fixes this issue and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps is now able to manage all resources from the monitoring.coreos.com API group. GITOPS-1638

Before this update, while reconciling cluster permissions, if a secret belonged to a cluster config instance it was deleted. This update fixes this issue. Now, the namespaces field from the secret is deleted instead of the secret. GITOPS-1777

Before this update, if you installed the HA variant of Argo CD through the Operator, the Operator created the Redis StatefulSet object with podAffinity rules instead of podAntiAffinity rules. This update fixes this issue and now the Operator creates the Redis StatefulSet with podAntiAffinity rules. GITOPS-1645

Before this update, Argo CD ApplicationSet had too many ssh Zombie processes. This update fixes this issue: it adds tini, a simple init daemon that spawns processes and reaps zombies, to the ApplicationSet controller. This ensures that a SIGTERM signal is properly passed to the running process, preventing it from being a zombie process. GITOPS-2108

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator can make use of RHSSO (KeyCloak) through OIDC in addition to Dex. However, with a recent security fix applied, the certificate of RHSSO cannot be validated in some scenarios. GITOPS-2214

From OpenShift Container Platform 4.12, it is optional to install the console. This fix updates the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator to prevent errors with the Operator if the console is not installed. GITOPS-2353

Before this update, in a large set of applications the application controllers were restarted multiple times due to the unresponsiveness of liveness probes. This update fixes the issue by removing the liveness probe in the application controller StatefulSet object. GITOPS-2153

Before this update, the RHSSO certificate cannot be validated when it is set up with a certificate which is not signed by certificate authorities. This update fixes the issue and now you can provide a custom certificate which will be used in verifying the Keycloak’s TLS certificate when communicating with it. You can add the rootCA to the Argo CD custom resource .spec.keycloak.rootCA field. The Operator reconciles this change and updates the oidc.config field in the argocd-cm ConfigMap with the PEM-encoded root certificate. GITOPS-2214

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: ArgoCD
metadata:
  name: example-argocd
  labels:
    example: basic
spec:
  sso:
    provider: keycloak
    keycloak:
     rootCA: |
       ---- BEGIN CERTIFICATE ----
       This is a dummy certificate
       Please place this section with appropriate rootCA
       ---- END CERTIFICATE ----
  server:
    route:
      enabled: true

Before this update, a terminating namespace that was managed by Argo CD would block the creation of roles and other configuration of other managed namespaces. This update fixes this issue. GITOPS-2277

Before this update, the Dex pods failed to start with CreateContainerConfigError when an SCC of anyuid was assigned to the Dex ServiceAccount resource. This update fixes this issue by assigning a default user id to the Dex container. GITOPS-2235

With this update, the bundled Argo CD has been updated to version 2.3.7.

Before this update, the redis-ha-haproxy pods of an ArgoCD instance failed when more restrictive SCCs were present in the cluster. This update fixes the issue by updating the security context in workloads. GITOPS-2034

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator can use RHSSO (KeyCloak) with OIDC and Dex. However, with a recent security fix applied, the Operator cannot validate the RHSSO certificate in some scenarios. GITOPS-2214

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: ArgoCD
metadata:
  name: example-argocd
spec:
  extraConfig:
    "admin.enabled": "true"
...

Before this update, the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps was using an older version of the REDIS 5 image tag. This update fixes the issue and upgrades the rhel8/redis-5 image tag. GITOPS-2037

Before this update, all unpatched versions of Argo CD v1.0.0 and later were vulnerable to a cross-site scripting bug. As a result, an unauthorized user would be able to inject a javascript link in the UI. This issue is now fixed. CVE-2022-31035

Before this update, all versions of Argo CD v0.11.0 and later were vulnerable to multiple attacks when SSO login was initiated from the Argo CD CLI or the UI. This issue is now fixed. CVE-2022-31034

Before this update, all unpatched versions of Argo CD v0.7 and later were vulnerable to a memory consumption bug. As a result, an unauthorized user would be able to crash the Argo CD’s repo-server. This issue is now fixed. CVE-2022-31016

Before this update, all unpatched versions of Argo CD v1.3.0 and later were vulnerable to a symlink-following bug. As a result, an unauthorized user with repository write access would be able to leak sensitive YAML files from Argo CD’s repo-server. This issue is now fixed. CVE-2022-31036

Before this update, images referenced by the redhat-operator-index were missing. This issue is now fixed. GITOPS-2036