How can I manage the control plane cluster?

[nistei]

Do I need another Argo instance to manage the control plane cluster?
Or can I run the application controller on it together with the principal components?
The docs would lead me to believe I need another Argo instance.

[jannfis]

Apologies for the late reply, my eyes weren't on the discussion pane for quite some time.

For now, I guess having another Argo CD managing the control plane cluster is the only option.

However, I think there are more and more voices requesting to have the Argo CD instance used as control plane support managing the local cluster, too. And I think that this is a fair ask, too.

For an application controller on the control plane cluster, that would manage the local cluster, I guess there are a few things to be sorted out before. For example, we must ensure that this application controller do not accidentally pick up applications destined to be picked up by agents. And then, we have to ensure that the integration we have right now (e.g. resource-proxy, redis-proxy) do not interfere with these local applications.

But I guess, as said, it's a fair ask and a valuable addition to the argocd-agent if there could be a local application controller on the control plane.