Posts in 2021
Server-side reconciliation is coming
2021-09-28 in Blog
tl;dr: The next Flux release will bring you a new reconciler based on Kubernetes "Server-Side Apply". It will make Flux more performant, observable, less error-prone and provide a generally more delightful experience. This post informs you of the changes you need to take to be able to upgrade.
tl;dr: Server-side reconciliation will make Flux more performant, improve overall observability and going forward will allow us to add new capabilities, like being able to preview local changes to manifests without pushing to upstream. ⚠ Changes required: Due to a Kubernetes issue, we require a certain set of Kubernetes releases (starting 1.16.11 - more on this below) as a minimum. The logs, …
GitOps One-Stop Shop Event
2021-09-17 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux will be part of the GitOps Days community special event again. Learn from vendors who chose Flux for their GitOps offering: Amazon, D2IQ, Microsoft, Weaveworks.
Flux is going to be center stage at the GitOps One Stop Shop Event on Oct 20th, 2021. Our friends over at GitOps Days will be hosting a special community edition to invite major players in the cloud native space who have chosen to back their GitOps offering by Flux. We are very excited that the ecosystem around GitOps is growing and so many chose Flux to bring the goodness we believe in to their …
September 2021 update
2021-08-30 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux 0.17 released, Flagger 1.13 with OpenServiceMesh support, Flux joins OperatorHub for OpenShift, Somtochi Onyekwere joins maintainers, event news and more
As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are available for integration, and where you can get involved. Read last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in August - there has been so much happening! Flux Project Facts We are very proud of what we put together, here …
August 2021 update
2021-07-30 in Blog
tl;dr: Controller refactoring coming up, Flux migration moving forward, Flux Bug Scrub is a regular event now! GitOpsCon North America coming up. Talk to us in Flux User Interviews! Website and Docs news, and more!
As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are available for integration and where you can get involved. Read last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in July - even though a lot of us took some much needed holidays, a lot has been happening! Flux Project Facts We …
July 2021 update
2021-07-02 in Blog
tl;dr: Stable Flux APIs from 0.16 onwards. 100 Flux releases. Bug Scrub community initiative. New Flagger release, Docs and website updates and lots more!
As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are available for integration and where you can get involved. Read last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in June - there has been so much happening! From now on Flux APIs will be stable We moved our APIs to v1beta1, …
Flux Bug Scrub Announce
2021-06-28 in Blog
tl;dr: We are starting the Flux Bug Scrub initiative. A great way to help out in the community and get started by learning more about Flux and interacting with user issues!
What is the Flux Bug Scrub In the past months we have had many folks reach out to us and ask where they could get involved, make their first steps in the Flux community and give back in a way. We started looking around and got inspired by a concept from SIG Node (who in turn were inspired by SIG CLI) over in the Kubernetes community. For us, a great way to get started, is to learn more about Flux …
June 2021 update
2021-05-31 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux 0.14 and Flagger 1.11 with lots of new features, KubeCon talks galore, Flux at CNCF Store, lots of Flux adoption. Flux governance 6 month review.
As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are available for integration and where you can get involved. Read last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in May - there has been so much happening! Newest Flux release With the 0.14 release of Flux we added a number of …
May 2021 update
2021-04-29 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux v2 has its first anniversary and reaches the 0.13 milestone, Alison joins maintainers, new guides and use-cases docs, upcoming events (yes we'll be at KubeCon!) and general community news!
Before we get started, what is GitOps? If you are new to the community and GitOps, you might want to check out some general resources. We like “What is GitOps?” or “The Official GitOps FAQ” written by folks at Weaveworks. The Road to Flux v2 The Flux community has set itself very ambitious goals for version 2 and as it’s a multi-month project, we strive to inform you …
April 2021 update
2021-03-31 in Blog
tl;dr: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation promoted Flux to Incubation status. Flux2 reaches 0.11 milestone, new Flagger release, upcoming events and general community news!
Before we get started, what is GitOps? If you are new to the community and GitOps, you might want to check out some general resources. We like GitOps manifesto or the official GitOps FAQ written by folks at Weaveworks. The Road to Flux v2 The Flux community has set itself very ambitious goals for version 2 and as it’s a multi-month project, we strive to inform you each month about what has …
Flux is a CNCF Incubation project
2021-03-10 in Blog
tl;dr: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation promoted Flux to Incubation status. We celebrate all the great work that turned Flux into a GitOps family of projects.
The Flux community is proud to announce that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee just promoted the Flux project to Incubating status! 🎉 For us as a project, this is proof not only of the wide-spread use of Flux (and Helm Operator) v1, but also of our big strides into becoming a GitOps family of projects and bringing a toolkit approach to Continuous and Progressive Delivery. We are particularly …