# Argo CD — optional applications (non-bootstrap)

**Base cluster configuration** (CNI, MetalLB, ingress, cert-manager, storage, observability stack, policy, SOPS secrets path, etc.) is installed by **`ansible/playbooks/noble.yml`** from **`clusters/noble/bootstrap/`** — not from here.

**`noble-root`** (`clusters/noble/bootstrap/argocd/root-application.yaml`) points at **`clusters/noble/apps`**. Add **`Application`** manifests (and optional **`AppProject`** definitions) under this directory only for workloads that are additive and do not subsume the Ansible-managed platform.

For an app-of-apps pattern, use a second-level **`Application`** that syncs a subdirectory (for example **`optional/`**) containing leaf **`Application`** resources.