feat: Trigger immediate ArgoCD refresh to speed up revision detection

[JesperTerkelsen]

Summary

FEATURE: Trigger immediate ArgoCD refresh when monitoring starts to significantly reduce revision detection time.

Problem

ArgoCD polls Git repositories on a periodic interval (typically 3 minutes by default). This means after pushing a manifest, it can take 30+ seconds before ArgoCD detects the change and starts syncing.

Example from deployment logs:

[0/300s] Sync: Synced, Health: Healthy, Rev: 2ad755e
  Waiting for ArgoCD to detect new revision (current: 2ad755e, expected: 336e562)
[6/300s] Sync: Synced, Health: Healthy, Rev: 2ad755e
  Waiting for ArgoCD to detect new revision...
[12/300s] ...still waiting...
[18/300s] ...still waiting...
[24/300s] ...still waiting...
[30/300s] ...still waiting...
[36/300s] Sync: OutOfSync, Health: Healthy, Rev: 336e562
✓ ArgoCD detected our revision, deployment in progress

Wait time: 36 seconds before ArgoCD detected the new revision

Solution

Trigger an immediate ArgoCD refresh at the start of monitoring using argocd app get --refresh. This tells ArgoCD to check the Git repository right away instead of waiting for its next polling interval.

Changes

wait-sync.sh

New refresh trigger before monitoring loop:

# Trigger immediate refresh to hint ArgoCD about the new revision
# This reduces wait time from minutes to seconds by avoiding ArgoCD's polling interval
echo "Triggering ArgoCD refresh to detect new revision immediately..."
argocd app get "$APP_NAME" --refresh "${ARGOCD_FLAGS[@]}" &>/dev/null || true
echo ""

How It Works

argocd app get --refresh:

• Tells ArgoCD to check the Git repository immediately
• Triggers comparison of desired state vs live state
• Non-blocking - runs asynchronously
• Safe to fail (uses || true) - won't block monitoring if it errors

Expected Impact

Before:

• Wait time: 30-180 seconds (depends on ArgoCD polling interval)
• ArgoCD discovers change via periodic polling

After:

• Wait time: ~5-10 seconds (just Git fetch + comparison)
• ArgoCD discovers change immediately via explicit refresh

Total deployment time reduction: 20-170 seconds per deployment

Testing

After merge:

• ✅ Monitoring starts with immediate refresh trigger
• ✅ ArgoCD detects new revisions within seconds
• ✅ Faster feedback for deployments
• ✅ No impact if refresh fails (monitoring continues normally)

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