Add cascade-delete finalizer to stateless apps; document the distinction

2026-09-03 03:58:47 +01:00
parent 8037f24e82
commit c34b58e0b2
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@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ kind: Application
 metadata:
  name: demo
  namespace: argocd
+  # Without this finalizer, deleting this Application object only makes
+  # Argo CD forget about its resources — the namespace, Deployment, and
+  # Service would keep running, orphaned and unmanaged. This finalizer
+  # makes deletion cascade: remove apps/demo.yaml from Git, and everything
+  # this Application deployed is actually torn down too.
+  finalizers:
+    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
 spec:
  project: default