Global Argo or Distributed Argo Instances

[jamie-stinson]

Is their a reccomended way to deploy Argo-CD in a multi-environment platform? We’re weighing two main patterns and i'm curious to hear which path others have taken and what is actually reccomended by argo-cd maintainers. For us we just run 3 environments, a development, preprod and production cluster so im slightly leaning towards a distributed model, I could see hub and spoke being useful for places with lots of clusters.

Option 1: Centralised Hub-and-Spoke. A seperate management cluster running Argo-CD that manages applications across all three target clusters.

Option 2: Distributed (Instance-per-Cluster) Each environment runs its own independent Argo CD stack.