Posts in 2023
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 …
Flux is a CNCF Graduated project
2022-11-30 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux becomes a graduated project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Today is a day to celebrate our hard work as a community!
Flux has graduated Today is a very exciting day for the Flux community! Flux is now a graduated project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and joining the ranks of Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and others in this category. Flux History We all worked very hard to make this happen - it is another important milestone in the Flux success story. Started in July 2016, engineers at Weaveworks built …
Verify the integrity of the Helm Charts stored in OCI-compliant registries as OCI artifacts
2022-11-14 in Blog
tl;dr: We'll talk about one of the newest support in Flux v0.36 that enables you to prove the authenticity of the Helm charts we manage through the HelmChart resources with the help of the cosign integration.
Cosign integration was one of the most important features we shipped in the Flux v0.35 release. After that, we wrote a blog post which explains how to use the feature with OCIRepository resources which enables fetching OCI artifacts from container registries. If you haven’t read it yet, we highly encourage you to go and check it out first. Flux v0.36.0 allows you to prove the authenticity of …
October 2022 Update
2022-11-01 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux 0.36 with more OCI features: support for verifying Helm charts with Cosign. Lots of good security news. Flux Legacy reaches End Of Life. Many Ecosystem updates and new members. Events, docs 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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of November 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in October - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Flux v0.36 adds …
CNCF Talk: Increased security and scalability with OCI
2022-10-26 in Blog
tl;dr: Watch Flux Core Maintainer Max Jonas Werner's talk about OCI support in Flux. Intro to GitOps, Flux and OCI and a great demo of what's all possible.
Integrating OCI into Flux was one of the most-requested features of all times. We listened to your feedback and in the past couple of releases, OCI was integrated more deeply into Flux. Here is a brief summary of what landed when: v0.31 (Jun 2022): Support for Helm repositories of type OCI v0.32 (Aug 2022): Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize overlays and Terraform code as OCI artifacts v0.33 (Aug …
Flux proudly representing at KubeCon 2022 NA
2022-10-19 in Blog
tl;dr: We are going to be present at KubeCon 2022 North America! Find out in this post what's happening and how best to stay up to date on all things Flux!
Everybody in Team Flux is busy with the run-up to Flux GA, but – with the help of the great folks in our Community and Ecosystem – we also managed to put together quite a number of talks, tutorials and sessions for you at KubeCon / CloudNativeCon! We are happy to announce that we will be at GitOpsCon and KubeCon. We are only a few days away from the event and we look forward to …
Prove the Authenticity of OCI Artifacts
2022-10-17 in Blog
tl;dr: We'll talk about integration of the cosign tool, which is a tool for signing and verifying the given container images, blobs, etc, that we used to prove the authenticity of the OCI Artifacts we manage through the OCIRepository resources.
Software supply chain attacks are one of the most critical risks threatening today’s software and have begun to collapse like a dark cloud over the software industry. For the Flux family of projects we are taking precautions against these threats. Apart from implementing security features and best practices, it is important to us to educate our users. You can find all Flux’s security …