No apparent way to force a sync with git helm chart repo, and resulting ~5 minute wait to notice updates to a git helm repo due to caching issue, rate limiting or other unknown factors

[djvs]

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Describe the bug

Some kind of caching issue or maybe rate limiting issue prevents immediate helm repo sync, and it takes ~5 minutes for even a manual chart update to make it through Argo.

To Reproduce

1. Set up private github helm chart repo (index.yaml, reponame-1.0.0.tgz, etc.)
2. Update repo with reponame-1.0.1.tgz
3. Takes ~5 minutes for Argo to notice the new chart

Expected behavior

Clicking one of "Sync", "Hard Refresh" etc. should immediately notice there's an updated chart on Github helm chart repo.

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Version

(from UI) v2.1.3+d855831

Logs

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[djvs]

I think this is the setting (3 minute, configured somewhere for argo-repo-server) - https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues/7893 . The fact that there's (?) no way to bypass this is brutal.

[lavurohit]

I think this is the setting (3 minute, configured somewhere for argo-repo-server) - #7893 . The fact that there's (?) no way to bypass this is brutal.

ArgoCD polls configured git repositories every 3 minutes but if you want to bypass this delay you can setup a git webhook. Argo CD supports Git webhook notifications from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Server and Gogs. Here is the documentation for setting up a webhook.

[djvs]

Not possible on non-WAN-accessible instance though.

[Blackclaws]

https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/high_availability/#argocd-application-controller

Set timeout.reconciliation to a lower number

[djvs]

^ This apparently has not worked either (I saw some other issues about the same thing - the logs for the pod that shows the reconciliation lumped them all with the same timestamp when I checked, or something like that).

Still, an actual way to trigger a manual sync would be a huge improvement.

[djvs]

Noting here also that update/webhook triggers seems to only work on git/ssh type repositories, not the https kind - otherwise it defaults always to the 3 minutes.

[thiagowfx]

From a Web UI perspective, IMHO, the ideal solution here is to add a "refresh" or "fetch" button on a per-repository basis in Settings / Repositories, that would instruct the argocd-repo-server to manually pull:

[thiagowfx]

Perhaps we could update the issue title to: "FR: Provide a way to manually fetch from git repositories, bypassing polling" (and note that the desired solution is a mechanism IN ADDITION TO webhooks).

Edit: Apparently it's possible to do so from the CLI: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues/914#issuecomment-1618625208