Joining the Flux community

We want the Flux project to be the vendor-neutral home for GitOps in a Cloud Native world.

Started 2016 to automate deployments at Weaveworks, the project has grown dramatically since then. Especially since the planning of Flux v2 and GitOps Toolkit SDK it was clearer that the scope became more ambitious and that the Flux project has become the home for the Flux family of projects, all solving specific GitOps needs.

We also want our community to be diverse, helpful, collaborative and a fun place to be, so we would love to have you join us!

Getting involved

Finding your interest

To get started, it’s important you find out which parts of Flux you are interested in first.

Maintained, with stable APIs:

Flux: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
As a Helm user: https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller

Currently stable:

Progressive delivery, e.g. blue-green testing, etc. https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger

Legacy projects, mostly just receive security updates:

Flux Legacy: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux
As a Helm user: https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-operator

And there is loads more under https://github.com/fluxcd, we all work on this as a community together.

Joining the community

All the projects have docs to help you get started, so a first step is obviously using the projects and getting some first-hand experience. Afterwards you can help out on Slack answering questions, maybe extend the docs or fix some small issues.

Teams

The Flux project uses GitHub org teams to make it easier for Project Members and above to communicate within and across teams. Members of those teams however should be defined in publicly accessible files for transparency to org non-members. See [https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/community-roles.md].

The process of formalising team structures apart from “interest in one or more given sub-project(s)” is ongoing. There currently are:

All projects and teams are open to contributors and every part of the Flux project appreciates your help and consideration. Check out the links above to learn more about the team in question.

Meetings

We run regular meetings and discuss things there. We are very happy if new users, contributors and developers join and we can put names to faces.

Meeting times
- “early” meeting: Uneven weeks: Wed, 12:00 UTC
- “late” meeting: Even weeks: Thu, 15:00 UTC
Agenda and minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_M0om0qUEN_NNiGgpqJ2tvsF2iioHkaARDeh6b70B0/edit
Flux calendar: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-flux-dev/calendar
Video recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwjBY07V76p5mWNgdINjIiuUiItIeLhIN

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Subscribing to the flux-dev calendar

To add the meetings to your e.g. Google calendar

visit the Flux calendar
click on “Subscribe to Calendar” at the very bottom of the page
copy the iCalendar URL
open e.g. your Google calendar
find the “add calendar” option
choose “add by URL”
paste iCalendar URL (ends with .ics)
done

Communication

Join our upcoming dev meetings
Talk to us in the #flux channel on CNCF Slack
Join the planning discussions
And if you are completely new to Flux and the GitOps Toolkit, take a look at our Get Started guide and give us feedback
To be part of the conversation about Flux’s development, join the flux-dev mailing list.
Social media: Follow Flux on Twitter, join the discussion in the Flux LinkedIn group.
Check out how to contribute

Rules

The Flux community is governed by the governance document, and involvement is defined in https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/community-roles.md. We as a community follow the code of conduct.