Argo CD

aid: argocd
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/argocd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Argo CD
x-type: opensource
description: >-
  Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous-delivery tool for Kubernetes, part of the CNCF Graduated Argo project. The argocd-server component exposes a gRPC and REST API used by the Web UI, the argocd CLI, and CI/CD systems. APIs cover applications, projects, clusters, repositories, accounts, certificates, GPG keys, sessions, settings, and notifications. Argo CD is also a Kubernetes operator that defines first-class CRDs (Application, ApplicationSet, AppProject) — those CRDs are themselves a Kubernetes-native API. Argo CD is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license; commercial offerings are provided by third parties (notably Akuity, founded by the Argo project's creators) rather than the Argo CD project itself.
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tags:
  - DevOps
  - GitOps
  - Kubernetes
  - Continuous Delivery
  - CNCF
  - Open Source
  - Operator
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: argocd:argocd-applications-api
    name: Argo CD Applications API
    tags:
      - Applications
      - Sync
      - GitOps
      - Lifecycle
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer-guide/api-docs/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/server-commands/argocd-server/
        type: API Reference
      - url: openapi/argocd-server-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Applications API (/api/v1/applications) creates, updates, deletes, syncs, refreshes, and rolls back applications, surfaces application resource trees, manifests, events, logs, and pod terminal access. All endpoints accept an optional `project` query parameter to scope by AppProject.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-applicationsets-api
    name: Argo CD ApplicationSets API
    tags:
      - ApplicationSets
      - Generators
      - GitOps
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/applicationset/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD ApplicationSets API (/api/v1/applicationsets) manages ApplicationSet resources — templated app generators (List, Cluster, Git, Matrix, Merge, Pull Request, SCM Provider) used to programmatically scale Argo CD across many clusters and tenants.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-projects-api
    name: Argo CD Projects API
    tags:
      - Projects
      - AppProjects
      - RBAC
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/projects/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Projects API (/api/v1/projects) manages AppProject resources — multi-tenant boundaries that restrict the source repos, destination clusters/namespaces, and resource kinds available to a group of applications, plus per-project RBAC and JWT tokens.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-clusters-api
    name: Argo CD Clusters API
    tags:
      - Clusters
      - Targets
      - Kubernetes
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/declarative-setup/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Clusters API (/api/v1/clusters) registers, updates, lists, and removes target Kubernetes clusters that Argo CD deploys into, including cluster credentials, sharding hints, and namespace scoping.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-repositories-api
    name: Argo CD Repositories API
    tags:
      - Repositories
      - Git
      - Helm
      - OCI
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/private-repositories/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Repositories API (/api/v1/repositories and /api/v1/repocreds) manages Git, Helm chart, and OCI-registry source repositories with credentials, certificates, and per-repo settings used by the Application controller.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-accounts-api
    name: Argo CD Accounts API
    tags:
      - Accounts
      - Authentication
      - Tokens
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/user-management/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Accounts API (/api/v1/account) manages local accounts and their API tokens (capability for service accounts), including password rotation and token issuance/revocation.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-sessions-api
    name: Argo CD Sessions API
    tags:
      - Sessions
      - Authentication
      - JWT
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer-guide/api-docs/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Sessions API (/api/v1/session) issues bearer tokens for username/password and OIDC-authenticated sessions used by all other API endpoints.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-settings-api
    name: Argo CD Settings API
    tags:
      - Settings
      - Configuration
      - Plugins
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/argocd-cm-yaml/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Settings API (/api/v1/settings) returns the active server configuration — UI banner, OIDC config, Helm/Kustomize plugin defaults, resource exclusions, application instance label key, and similar runtime settings.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-certificates-api
    name: Argo CD Certificates API
    tags:
      - Certificates
      - TLS
      - SSH
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/declarative-setup/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Certificates API (/api/v1/certificates) manages TLS certificates and SSH known_hosts entries used to securely connect to private Git, Helm, and OCI repositories.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-gpgkeys-api
    name: Argo CD GPG Keys API
    tags:
      - GPG
      - Signed Commits
      - Security
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/gpg-verification/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD GPG Keys API (/api/v1/gpgkeys) registers and removes GPG public keys used to verify signed commits before they are deployed.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-notifications-api
    name: Argo CD Notifications API
    tags:
      - Notifications
      - Webhooks
      - Slack
      - Email
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/notifications/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Notifications subsystem delivers app lifecycle events (sync, health, deploy) to webhooks, Slack, MS Teams, email, GitHub commit status, and other channels via templated triggers.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-version-api
    name: Argo CD Version API
    tags:
      - Version
      - Build Info
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer-guide/api-docs/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Argo CD Version API (/api/version) returns the running argocd-server build version, Kustomize/Helm/Jsonnet versions, and Kubernetes server version.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-application-crd
    name: Argo CD Application CRD
    tags:
      - CRD
      - Kubernetes
      - Application
      - GitOps
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/application.yaml/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/manifests/crds/application-crd.yaml
        type: Source
    description: >-
      Argo CD defines an Application Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=Application) describing a desired sync of a single source (Git/Helm/OCI) to a destination cluster/namespace, with sync policy, automated/manual sync, and ignore/diff rules.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-applicationset-crd
    name: Argo CD ApplicationSet CRD
    tags:
      - CRD
      - Kubernetes
      - ApplicationSet
      - Generators
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/applicationset/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/manifests/crds/applicationset-crd.yaml
        type: Source
    description: >-
      Argo CD defines an ApplicationSet Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=ApplicationSet) which templatizes Application creation across many targets via pluggable generators.
  - aid: argocd:argocd-appproject-crd
    name: Argo CD AppProject CRD
    tags:
      - CRD
      - Kubernetes
      - AppProject
      - RBAC
    properties:
      - url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/projects/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/manifests/crds/appproject-crd.yaml
        type: Source
    description: >-
      Argo CD defines an AppProject Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=AppProject) which scopes which sources, destinations, and resource kinds Applications inside the project may use, plus per-project RBAC.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
  - type: API Reference
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer-guide/api-docs/
  - type: Getting Started
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/
  - type: GitHub Organization
    url: https://github.com/argoproj
  - type: Source
    url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/LICENSE
  - type: CNCF Project
    url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/argo/
  - type: Helm Chart
    url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/tree/main/charts/argo-cd
  - type: Slack Community
    url: https://argoproj.github.io/community/join-slack/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://blog.argoproj.io/
  - type: X (Twitter)
    url: https://x.com/argoproj
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@ArgoProj
  - type: Releases
    url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases
  - type: Roadmap
    url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/docs/roadmap.md
  - type: Contribution Guide
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer-guide/contributors-quickstart-guide/
  - type: Operator Manual
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/
  - type: User Guide
    url: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/argocd-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/argocd-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/argocd-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]