When installed gitops 1.18 on the MicroShift, shows the application in unknown state.

```
# oc get application
NAME               SYNC STATUS   HEALTH STATUS
spring-petclinic   Unknown       Unknown
```

The reason why it shows unknown is caused by this.

```
status:
  conditions:
  - lastTransitionTime: "2026-01-14T23:10:42Z"
    message: 'error getting cluster by server "https://kubernetes.default.svc": server.secretkey
      is missing'
    type: InvalidSpecError
```

Checking the secret, it is empty.

```
# oc get secret argocd-secret
NAME            TYPE     DATA   AGE
argocd-secret   Opaque   0      7d5h

# oc get secret argocd-secret -o json | jq -r '.data'
null
```
    

MicroShift 4.20
MicroShift Gitops 1.18
    

- install gitops 1.18 on MicroShift
- create the test application as per docs
    

- failing showing the state
    

The 1.16 version on MicroShift 4.20 works just fine even with the secret not containing any data. Below is example with Gitops 1.16.

```
# oc get application
NAME               SYNC STATUS   HEALTH STATUS
spring-petclinic   Synced        Healthy
```