Posts in 2023
Announcing Flux 2.1 GA
2023-09-04 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux v2.1.0: New monitoring setup with support for custom metrics, performance improvements and much more!
New releases We are happy to announce the latest GA releases for Flux and Flagger. Flux v2.1.0 This new release comes with lots of new features, fixes, restructured documentation and performance improvements. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The Flux APIs were extended with new opt-in features in a backwards-compatible manner. The Flux Git capabilities have been improved …
Announcing Flux 2.0 GA
2023-07-20 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux 2.0 and General Availability!
Flux 2.0 and General Availability! On July 5, 2023, Flux reached a major landmark with Flux 2.0 and the general availability of its GitOps components! Flux has continued to grow during its incredible journey. Its early iteration was built at Weaveworks for their own needs and for a previous SaaS product built on Flux. Flux led to Weaveworks CEO Alexis Richardson to coin the term, GitOps, which has …
May 2023 Update
2023-06-06 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux v2.0.0-rc5 is out with lots of improvements, please test and give us feedback. We went to GitOpsCon / Open Source Summit - check out our talks from these events. That plus lots of news from our contributors and ecosystem.
May was packed with exciting stories from Flux users, newly updated Flux adopters, contributors, contributions and a new GA release candidate! Also, don’t miss future Flux Bug Scrubs using ChatGPT. Flux technology things to know Three more Flux release candidates! Many improvements - Please test On our path to GA, we released v2.0.0-rc5, the fifth release candidate for the 2.0.0 release. It …
April 2023 Update
2023-05-02 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux v2 release candidate is out - we want feedback! We went to KubeCon and met many old and new friends - check out our talk videos. cdCon, GitOpsCon and OSS Summit are coming up with more chances to meet us. That plus lots of news from our contributors and ecosystem.
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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of May 2023 - let’s recap together what happened in April - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Flux v2.0.0 release …
How to use Weave GitOps as your Flux UI
2023-04-04 in Blog
tl;dr: User of Flux have been asking for a Flux UI for a long time. Weave GitOps fills that gap and does lots more. Check out this post in our Flux Ecosystem series and learn about its other features, including 'GitOps Run' which you can see in the demo.
Here comes the newest blog post in our ecosystem category. One of the key reasons to rewrite Flux was to break up the former monolith solution into separate controllers which provide distinct parts of the functionality. This allows users to pick just the parts they need, and integrators to very easily build on top of Flux’s APIs. Today we have a very active Flux Ecosystem - we very much …
March 2023 Update
2023-04-03 in Blog
tl;dr: The latest Flux brings performance improvements and Helm-related features. Our Ecosystem is growing (timoni) and sees lots of activity. Meet us at KubeCon - lots of opportunities to meet up. New Flux adopters join us and lots more happening!
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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of April 2023 - let’s recap together what happened in March - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Flux v0.41: more …
February 2023 Update
2023-03-01 in Blog
tl;dr: February brings two Flux releases, making steady progress on our road to GA. GitLab adopts Flux for their GitOps capabilities. Truelayer moves to Flux 2 and realises 40x performance improvements. Buzzing Flux Ecosystem and loads of upcoming events to look forward to!
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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of March 2023 - let’s recap together what happened in February - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Two Flux minor …
How Flux and Pulumi give each other superpowers
2023-02-14 in Blog
tl;dr: The Pulumi Kubernetes operator extends Flux to all your infrastructure, and Flux makes the Pulumi operator secure and super easy to work with.
Pulumi is an “Infrastructure as Code” tool that lets you specify your infrastructure as programs written in JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, .NET languages, or YAML. The Pulumi Kubernetes operator drives Pulumi from Kubernetes, so you can maintain your infrastructure by pushing commits to git and letting automation take it from there. Recently, we added support to the operator for using …
January 2023 Update
2023-02-01 in Blog
tl;dr: After Graduation Flux and Flagger development continue at full pace. Here is our update of December and January full of new releases, features, events and community news.
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 our last update here. Now it’s the beginning of February 2023 - let’s recap together what happened in December and January - it has been a lot! News in the Flux …
Posts in 2022
November 2022 Update
2022-12-05 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux graduates within the CNCF. Flux consolidates Git implementation. Flux GA Roadmap updates. New Flagger releases. Ecosystem updates. KubeCon Review and lots more community news.
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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of December 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in November - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Flux has …