Flux at KubeCon EU 2026
Flux friends! We had such a great time seeing you in Amsterdam. Here's what went down with all things Flux and GitOps at KubeCon Europe 2026.
FluxCon was packed!
Watch the talks from FluxCon
A full morning of Flux talks featured production stories from Air France-KLM, NatWest, Orange, and our maintainers.
FluxCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks
Tiffany Wang, Morgan Stanley & Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane
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Air France–KLM's GitOps Takeoff: Real Stories From the Flight Deck
Alaoui Echerif Amine & Ravi Ramrattan, Air France KLM
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May the Flux Be With You: Tales From the GitOps Trenches at NatWest
Joel King & Lee Coupe, NatWest Group
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Flux-Powered Bootstrapping a Kubernetes With GitOps and CaC
Paris Nakita Kejser, Astrona
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Sylva, Taming Complexity With FluxCD Dependency Management
Thomas Morin & Francois Eleouet, Orange
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Flux at KyvernoCon
Flux and Kyverno come together in this cross-project session:
Policy & GitOps Unite! Kyverno and Flux Save Cluster City
Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata & Leigh Capili, ControlPlane
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The Flux Project Booth
Had questions? Wanted to talk GitOps? Or just wanted to grab some stickers? The Flux maintainers were there! Stefan was also at the booth for extended Q&A after each session.
We used Flux Operator MCP Server to show off AI Assisted GitOps.
We also launched fluxcd/agent-skills, to help you work with your repos and clusters more effectively within Claude Code, Copilot, Kiro, and more.
Flux at KubeCon
Flux sessions from the main conference:
⚡ Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - GitOps For All Sizes
Matheus Pimenta, Core Maintainer
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From "No Time for GitOps" to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human Way
Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei, Tchibo GmbH
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Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back
Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks
Luiz Ariza, Beanters
View on SchedVisualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem
Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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Announcing Flux 2.8 GA
We're thrilled to announce the Flux 2.8 General Availability release. This is a major milestone, bringing Helm v4 support natively to Flux.
Key highlights include:
- Helm v4 support with server-side apply and kstatus-based health checking
- Helm v3 backward compatibility for existing releases + opt-ins
- Reduced mean time to recovery - new revisions can immediately cancel stale health checks
- CEL expressions for readiness evaluation of Helm-managed objects
ArtifactGeneratorsupport for extracting and modifying Helm charts- PR/MR comment providers for preview environment feedback loops
- Cosign v3 support for verifying OCI artifacts and container images
- Custom SSA apply stages for ordering resource application in kustomize-controller
Flux Resources
Flux (and Flagger) is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible. It is the GitOps engine for Microsoft's Arc Kubernetes, AWS's EKS-Anywhere, GitLab, and many more.
Flux is a CNCF graduated project and is General Availability.
- Get started: fluxcd.io
- Get help: fluxcd.io/support
- Add yourself! fluxcd.io/adopters
Ecosystem
Flux has a rich ecosystem of extensions and compatible, open software. Here are a few things to look at:
- Flux Operator Web UI: lightweight, mobile friendly
- Installing Flux Operator: Migrate from `flux bootstrap`
- Headlamp's UI for Flux: Flux UI blog post
- Flux Operator MCP Server: AI Assisted GitOps
- CI/CD for GenAI:GenAI example using Flux: helixml/genai-cicd-ref