Custom Styles

Argo CD has imports the majority of its UI stylesheets from the argo-ui project. Sometimes, it may be desired to customize certain components of the UI for branding purposes or to help distinguish between multiple instances of Argo CD running in different environments.

Such custom styling can be applied either by supplying a URL to a remotely hosted CSS file, or by loading a CSS file directly onto the argocd-server container. Both mechanisms are driven by modifying the argocd-cm configMap.

Adding Styles Via Remote URL

The first method simply requires the addition of the remote URL to the argocd-cm configMap:

argocd-cm

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  ...
  name: argocd-cm
data:
  ui.cssurl: "https://www.myhost.com/my-styles.css"

Adding Styles Via Volume Mounts

The second method requires mounting the CSS file directly onto the argocd-server container and then providing the argocd-cm with the properly configured path to that file. In the following example, the CSS file is actually defined inside of a separate configMap (the same effect could be achieved by generating or downloading a CSS file in an initContainer):

argocd-cm

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  ...
  name: argocd-cm
data:
  ui.cssurl: "./custom/my-styles.css"

Note that the cssurl should be specified relative to the “/shared/app” directory; not as an absolute path.

argocd-styles-cm

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  ...
  name: argocd-styles-cm
data:
  my-styles.css: |
    .nav-bar {
      background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #999, #777, #333, #222, #111);
    }

argocd-server

---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: argocd-server
  ...
spec:
  template:
    ...
    spec:
      containers:
      - command:
        ...
        volumeMounts:
        ...
        - mountPath: /shared/app/custom
          name: styles
      ...
      volumes:
      ...
      - configMap:
          name: argocd-styles-cm
        name: styles

Note that the CSS file should be mounted within a subdirectory of the “/shared/app” directory (e.g. “/shared/app/custom”). Otherwise, the file will likely fail to be imported by the browser with an “incorrect MIME type” error. The subdirectory can be changed using server.staticassets key of the argocd-cmd-params-cm.yaml ConfigMap.

Developing Style Overlays

The styles specified in the injected CSS file should be specific to components and classes defined in argo-ui. It is recommended to test out the styles you wish to apply first by making use of your browser’s built-in developer tools. For a more full-featured experience, you may wish to build a separate project using the Argo CD UI dev server.