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+# kmsvc-manage bootstrap — manages itself and its supporting services
+# (Strimzi/Kafka, Redis, queue-operator, message-plane server) from
+# the kmsvc-manage repo's own k8s/argocd/ structure on the prod branch.
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: kmsvc-root
+  namespace: argocd
+  annotations:
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "6"
+spec:
+  project: homelab
+  source:
+    repoURL: https://forgejo.riotpiao.com/rock/kmsvc-manage.git
+    targetRevision: prod
+    path: k8s/argocd/apps
+    directory:
+      recurse: false
+  destination:
+    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+    namespace: sqs
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true
+      selfHeal: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true