Posts in 2022
KubeCon EU 2022 Wrap-Up
2022-05-25 in Blog
tl;dr: KubeCon EU 2022 is over and we lots of fun being there and meeting you! If you couldn't make it, read the blog post and catch up with everything that happened. We have links to all the currently available talks and lots of pics from the event!
It was KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 last week and if you weren’t able to attend, this post provides you with everything you need to know about Flux and GitOps that happened there. The schedule was packed with case studies, development updates and many new friendships formed at our booths and in the hallway track. Here we go #KubeConEU 🎉 Flux office hours starts at 1PM room 2H. Come join …
Flux at KubeCon EU 2022
2022-05-12 in Blog
tl;dr: Team Flux is going to have a big presence at KubeCon EU 2022. We very much look forward to meeting you in-person in Valencia and online. Find all the relevant information in here: who to meet there, all the relevant talks and events, prizes and more. The Flux community is coming together again!
We are so excited! KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 is happening 16-20 May 2022 in Valencia, Spain. Team Flux is going to be there and we are looking forward to meeting you in-person or in our virtual sessions, meetings and co-located events. 🎉 Update: 2022-05-16: We updated the details of the project meeting. If you can’t make it to KubeCon Many of us won’t be able to attend …
May 2022 Security Announcement
2022-05-10 in Blog
tl;dr: The Flux Team has found three security vulnerabilities in Flux, Today we will go through them and talk about what this may mean to you. We strongly advise you to upgrade your clusters as soon as you can. 🔒
tl;dr The Flux Team has found three security vulnerabilities in Flux, and we strongly advise you to upgrade your clusters as soon as you can. CVE Advisory Severity Affected versions CVE-2022-24817 Improper kubeconfig validation allows arbitrary code execution Critical < 0.29.0 >= v0.1.0 CVE-2022-24877 Improper path handling in Kustomization files allows path traversal Critical < v0.29.0 …
April 2022 update
2022-05-03 in Blog
tl;dr: New Flux and Flagger releases bring you the latest and greatest just yet! KubeCon news, GitOps Days coming up and lots of new resources - potentially the most newly added videos in particular! Lots of great contributions from our community. 💖
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 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in April - it has been a lot! Update: Earlier versions of this post referred …
Contributing to Flux
2022-04-13 in Blog
tl;dr: "It takes a village" - that's true for the Flux community as well. And there are countless ways to join the team and help out. In this post we list a lot of them. Some very small, so you can definitely do your part and join Team Flux as well!
📈 Our Community is growing We are very pleased to see that our community is growing, whichever metric you apply. Number of members in Slack or mailing list, newly added adopters or projects in our ecosystem - all numbers are going up. Even the length of our monthly updates is growing every month. As many asked in the past months how to get involved in the Flux community, let’s walk you …
March 2022 Update
2022-04-04 in Blog
tl;dr: New Flux and Flagger releases bring more security and features and bring us ever more closely to GA, many new adopters have joined our community, Flux articles and docs, upcoming Flux events helping you get started 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 April 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in March - it has been a lot! Update: Earlier versions of this post …
Flux puts the Git into GitOps
2022-03-25 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux integrates very tightly with all relevant APIs and SDKs. For us to provide the best possible Git support to bring you GitOps, shelling out to Git is not an option. Find out why in this blog post.
Ever since the rewrite of Flux as a set of focused controllers, it has become clearer what each of its functions and capabilities are. The aptly named controllers carry in their name what they are responsible for and which data or tooling they interact with, so that is, e.g. source, kustomize, image-automation, notification, helm, etc. If you wanted to string a proof-of-concept for a GitOps tool …
Flagger adds Gateway API Support
2022-03-11 in Blog
tl;dr: Flagger 1.19.0 adds support for Gateway API, which will allow us to support new Gateway API implementations seamlessly going forward. Check out the tutorial to see how you are going to benefit from this.
The Flagger team is proud to bring you Kubernetes Gateway API support as part of the 1.19.0 release. Read here about why this is a significant development in Flagger and how you can make use of it. What is Flagger? Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes. It reduces the risk of introducing a new software version in production …
Security: Using Pod Security Standard "restricted"
2022-03-09 in Blog
tl;dr: pod security standards is a recent addition to Kubernetes, coming to replace pod security policies. Alongside seccomp, it provides greater isolation levels to workloads. Read up on how we moved all Flux controllers to 'restricted' mode and how that's going to keep you safer.
Next up in our blog series about Flux Security is how we moved to Pod Security Standard “restricted”, all the background info you need to know and how that makes things safer for you. Since version 0.26 of Flux we are applying [..] the restricted pod security standard to all controllers. In practice this means: all Linux capabilities were dropped the root filesystem was set to …
February 2022 Update
2022-03-01 in Blog
tl;dr: New Flux and Flagger releases bring more security, many new adopters have joined our community, Flux articles and docs, upcoming Flux events helping you get started 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 March 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in February - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Latest Flux is …