Cloud-Native Microservices With Kubernetes - 2nd Edition

Argo CD: Roll Back

Argo CD maintains a history of application revisions like a ReplicaSet does for Pods. Each time an application is synchronized, a new revision is created in the Git repository. This allows Argo CD to roll back to a previous revision if needed.

You can see the revision history of the application by using the following command:

argocd app history $APPNAME

The column REVISION shows the branch and the short ID of the commit that triggered the synchronization.

You can roll back to a previous revision using the following command:

argocd app rollback $APPNAME 

However, a rollback cannot be performed on an application with automated sync enabled.

Example:

argocd app rollback $APPNAME  0

# Error output
{
  "level":"fatal"