argo-cd Ability to suspend an argo application

Firstly, thanks for a great tool. It's made life much easier for us!

There are times where I want to 'suspend' an application. That is, I want to temporarily delete it from the cluster and then re-add it. Currently I have to delete the argo application completely and then re-add it into argo. It would be useful if there was a feature where I could suspend it in argo and that would delete the app in the cluster BUT keep the argo application definition ready to re-sync.

Jan 28 '20 01:01 andye2004

Hm. You could have your application definition residing in a dedicated definition modeling the app of apps patterns with auto-sync disabled on the parent.

Then you could cascade-delete the application in question ("child app"), and if you want it back, you just re-sync the parent application.

Jan 28 '20 18:01 jannfis

@jannfis, thanks for the follow-up. I'll have a think on this for a few days and we'll maybe have a discussion internally re your suggestion. Doesn't feel quite right though - I'll get back to you.

Jan 29 '20 01:01 andye2004

This "status" of disabled application could be really useful for development. If I have two projects using the pattern app of apps : project1 : app1, app2 project2 : app1, app2, app3

I would be able (on my development machine) to stop working on project1 and start working on project2 with 2 clicks (or one commit) I don't see a use-case for a production environment.

Jan 12 '21 16:01 dcharbonnier

+1 - I'd love to see a stop, or suspend button for each application in the UI. It would make regular but intermittent workloads much easier to manage. - to extend the notion, a schedule of suspend/resume could be added to only run workloads during certain times and then auto shut them down would be especially nice. Autoscalers would then auto reduce nodes and thus running costs.

Oct 12 '21 03:10 jeacott1

+1

Oct 18 '21 09:10 danielepanzeri

+1 - people with app of apps pattern with auto sync on need a way to pause both the parent and child application.

Oct 21 '21 18:10 Kampe

+1

Nov 11 '21 10:11 hilenko

+1

Dec 08 '21 02:12 ghost

+1

Dec 13 '21 17:12 davem-git

+1

Jan 10 '22 17:01 nikcollins

+1

Jan 13 '22 12:01 marcelofabricanti

+1

Jan 21 '22 20:01 armenr

+1

Feb 28 '22 12:02 vmironichev-nix

+1

Mar 08 '22 15:03 tanalam2411

+1

Mar 30 '22 14:03 achetronic

+1

Not for a prod deployment but for when debugging a dev cluster, pausing deployments would be super useful

Apr 05 '22 22:04 Cave-Johnson

+1 ❤️

Apr 12 '22 14:04 JBogossianKH

+1

Aug 16 '22 16:08 Va1

+1 Much better than commenting out contents of YAML-file if you want to temporarily disable

Sep 01 '22 07:09 kschjeld

+1 would be useful

Oct 05 '22 07:10 zoop-btc

+1 very useful.

Nov 09 '22 06:11 Mahesh-Gunda-Maersk

+1, would love to see this feature!

Dec 11 '22 11:12 filipdadgar

+1

Jan 04 '23 13:01 elendis

+1, It will be help full in production - DR cluster use case. We can disable the application in production cluster and start it in DR cluster in case of DR failover. Will reduce downtime.