Joining the Flux community
We want the Flux project to be the vendor-neutral home for GitOps in a Cloud Native world.
Started in 2016 to automate deployments at Weaveworks, the project has taken on a new life since then. The Flux community has become the home for a family of projects, all solving a variety of 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
Meetings
We run regular meetings and discuss things there.
The upcoming meetings, talks, and community events for the next month are here:
- 2024-12-0518:00The Flux Bug Scrub (Americas-Late)Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 917 2751 7562 Passcode: 746206 - 2024-12-1021:00The Flux Bug Scrub (Australia/AEST edition)Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 947 4219 9917 - 2024-12-1113:00The Flux Bug Scrub (Americas-Early)Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 918 5756 1646 Passcode: 382930 - 2024-12-1215:00CNCF Flux Project Meeting (late)
- Where
- https://zoom.us/j/4381188348
- Organizer
- kingdonb
Meeting ID: 438 118 8348 One tap mobile +19292056099,,4381188348# US (New York) +13017158592,,4381188348# US (Germantown) Dial by your location +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) 877 853 5247 US Toll-free 888 788 0099 US Toll-free Meeting ID: 438 118 8348 Find your local number: here - 2024-12-1812:00CNCF Flux Project Meeting (early)
- Where
- https://zoom.us/j/4381188348
- Organizer
- kingdonb
Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 438 118 8348 One tap mobile +19292056099,,4381188348# US (New York) +13017158592,,4381188348# US (Germantown) Dial by your location +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) 877 853 5247 US Toll-free 888 788 0099 US Toll-free Meeting ID: 438 118 8348 Find your local number: here - 2024-12-1918:00The Flux Bug Scrub (Americas-Late)Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 917 2751 7562 Passcode: 746206
Our calendar data is hosted on the CNCF-Flux-Dev List, which has the option to subscribe: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-flux-dev/calendar
We are very happy if new users, contributors and developers join and we can put names to faces!
Review how to subscribe to the Flux Calendar to add the Flux meetups on your own calendar.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Recordings
Check out the https://www.youtube.com/@fluxcd channel for recordings of Flux Dev Meetings and other Flux-related playlists.
Schedules
The recurring meetings and their schedules (in English) are listed below with their source time zones, and a link to any meeting “Minutes” docs.
Some regularly scheduled meetings are scheduled in their hosts’ local time zones.
Which | Times | Agenda & Minutes | Recordings |
---|---|---|---|
Flux Dev Meetings | “early” meeting: Odd weeks: Wed, 12:00 UTC “late” meeting: Even weeks: Thu, 15:00 UTC | Document | YouTube |
Flux Bug Scrub | “early” meeting: Even weeks: Wed, 8:00 Eastern US time “late” meeting: Odd weeks: Thu, 13:00 Eastern US time “AEST Edition” Even weeks: Wed, 8:00 Brisbane time | Bug Scrub Template (#0090) | YouTube |
Do note that Daylight Savings Time changes can vary across regions, which can cause some confusion.
The calendar at https://fluxcd.io/community#meetings has been localized to show the events in your local time zone.
Subscribing to the Flux calendar
To add the meetings to your e.g. Google calendar
- visit the
Flux calendar
For this you might need to create an account for
lists.cncf.io
- 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
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:
Status | Interest | Repository | Roadmap |
---|---|---|---|
Maintained, stable APIs | Flux | https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2 | https://fluxcd.io/roadmap |
" | Kustomize user | https://github.com/fluxcd/kustomize-controller | https://fluxcd.io/roadmap |
" | Helm user | https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller | https://fluxcd.io/roadmap |
Currently stable | Progressive delivery | https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger | https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/#roadmap |
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/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:
- The core maintainers
- The Security team
- The Community team
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.
Communication
Here is a list of good entry points into our community. Here is how we stay in touch and how you can meet us as a team.
- Slack: Join in and talk to us in the #flux channel on CNCF Slack
- Meetings: We run weekly, public meetings - join one of the upcoming dev meetings, introduce yourself and get involved this way
- Join the Flux discussions on GitHub
- Mailing list: To be updated on Flux progress regularly, you might want to join the flux-dev mailing list as well
- Social media: Follow Flux on Twitter, join the discussion in the Flux LinkedIn group
- Blog: Stay up to date on the Flux blog
- Check out our guides on how to contribute to Flux
- And if you are completely new to the Flux project, take a look at our Get Started guide and give us feedback
Maintainers
Flux project maintainers may differ across Git repositories within the fluxcd
GitHub org.
The codebase itself is a multi-component design, spread across multiple Git repositories.
Flux also includes non-code contributions, such as documentation and community information.
Maintainers of each repo are listed in a MAINTAINERS file in the root of that repo.
See https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/project/flux-project-maintainers.yaml for an aggregated list of all maintainers from each of the project’s individual Git repos.
Rules
The Flux community is governed by the governance document, involvement is defined in https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/community-roles.md, and processes can be found in https://github.com/fluxcd/community/blob/main/PROCESS.md. We as a community follow the code of conduct.