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

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

Image 3: Navigate to your main app

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

Image 4: Select "Disable Auto-Sync"

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

Image 5: Delete your applications

6. 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

2. Select the main application (i.e. development-cinchy) (Image 8).

Image 8: Navigate to your main app

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

Image 9: Enable your Auto Sync