💥 The First Time I Tried ArgoCD on EKS, I Broke Production at 2 AM Chai in hand. Midnight deploy. Everything was green. 📑 Table of Contents 💥 The First Time I Tried ArgoCD on EKS, I Broke Production at 2 AM ☁️ Prerequisites — What You Actually Need 🚀 Installing ArgoCD — The Right Way 📦 Using Helm to Deploy ArgoCD 🔧 Exposing ArgoCD — Ingress or LoadBalancer? 🔐 Securing Access — Because 'admin' Shouldn’t Be the Password 🧠 First Sync — Your Cluster Meets Git 🟩 Final Thoughts ❓ Frequently Asked Questions Can I use Terraform to install ArgoCD on EKS? Is ArgoCD free to use on AWS EKS? How do I upgrade ArgoCD after installing it on EKS? And then — boom. Staging goes sideways. Deployments rolling back on their own. Pods evicting. Slack pinging like a war siren. I remember the time I ran helm install argo-cd without reading the IAM implications. Rookie move. Thought it was just another kubectl apply fest. Spoiler: it’s not. Yeah, I learned this the hard way — ArgoCD doesn’t just connect to your cluster.…