Refactor deployment workflow to create Kubernetes secrets instead of deploying Helm chart; update ArgoCD application to ignore differences for mongo-secrets

Author: karimzakzouk

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           kubectl create namespace ${{ inputs.app_namespace }} --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
 
-      - name: Deploy Helm Chart
+      - name: Apply Secrets
         run: |
-          helm upgrade --install ${{ inputs.app_name }} ./helm \
-            --namespace ${{ inputs.app_namespace }} \
-            --set mongo.uri="${{ secrets.MONGO_URI }}" \
-            --set mongo.username="${{ secrets.MONGO_USERNAME }}" \
-            --set mongo.password="${{ secrets.MONGO_PASSWORD }}" \
-            --set image.tag="${{ inputs.image_tag || github.sha }}"
+          kubectl create secret generic mongo-secrets \
+            --from-literal=uri="${{ secrets.MONGO_URI }}" \
+            --from-literal=username="${{ secrets.MONGO_USERNAME }}" \
+            --from-literal=password="${{ secrets.MONGO_PASSWORD }}" \
+            -n ${{ inputs.app_namespace }} --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
+
 
       - name: Deploy ArgoCD Applications
         run: |

argocd/application.yml

@@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ spec:
     automated:
       prune: true
       selfHeal: true
+
+  ignoreDifferences:
+    - group: ""
+      kind: Secret
+      name: mongo-secrets
+      namespace: ${APP_NAMESPACE}
+      jsonPointers:
+        - /data