Argo CD: Enable Gzip Compression to Speed Up Web UI
Argo CD is a powerful GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. However, Argo CD Web UI is very slow when managing a lot of Applications.
How can we faster the Web UI ?
Enable Gzip Compression
The easiest way to speed it up is to compress all its resources. Enabling Gzip compression on argocd-server is the simplest and most efficient ways to achieve that.
The argocd-server is a gRPC/REST server which exposes the API consumed by the Web UI. It can be configured by the --enable-gzipoption to Enable GZIP compression
argocd-server [flags] --enable-gzip Enable GZIP compression
If your Argo CD is installed using the community maintained Argo CD Chart, using the following configuration to enable Gzip compression.
server:
extraArgs:
- --enable-gzipWrap up
When possible, enable Gzip compression to speed up Argo CD Web UI.
The gzip compression will significantly reduce the amount of data loaded by the UI.
