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Disable your Kubernetes applications

Disable your applications​

There might be times when you want to temporarily disable your Kubernetes pods to perform maintenance or upgrades. You can do so through the following steps:

  1. Access your ArgoCD.
  2. Navigate to the application directory for the namespace you wish to disable, in this case development-cinchy (Image 1). You should see your cluster component applications.

Image 1: Applications

  1. Select the main application (development-cinchy) (Image 2).

Image 3: Navigate to your main app

  1. Navigate to Summary > Sync Policy > Automated, then select Disable Auto-Sync > OK (Image 3).

Image 4: Select "Disable Auto-Sync"

  1. For each of the cluster applications that you wish to disable, select the "..." > Delete (Image 5).

Image 5: Delete your applications

  1. Your apps should all appear as "out of sync" (Image 6).

Image 6: Your apps should all appear out of sync

Re-enable your applications​

  1. To re-enable your applications, return to the application directory for your disabled namespace (Image 7).

Image 7: Navigate to your app directory

  1. Select the main application (i.e. development-cinchy).

  2. Navigate to Summary > Sync Policy, then select Enable Auto-Sync > OK (Image 9).

Image 9: Enable your Auto Sync