Flux at KubeCon NA 2026
Welcome, Flux friends! We're excited to see you in Salt Lake City. Here's your guide to all things Flux and GitOps at KubeCon North America 2026.
FluxCon is here!
When: Monday, November 9, 2026 - 9:00 am - 12:55 pm MST
Where: Grand Ballroom H, Level 1, Salt Palace Convention Center
View the FluxCon Sessions
FluxCon Sessions
A full morning of Flux talks featuring production stories from Morgan Stanley, Ericsson, Mirantis, Motorola Solutions, and our maintainers. All sessions are in Grand Ballroom H, Level 1, Salt Palace.
FluxCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks
Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & Joel King, NatWest Group
Mon, Nov 9 • 9:00 - 9:05 am MST View Session
Flux After 10 Years: GitOps for Humans and Agents
Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
Mon, Nov 9 • 9:10 - 9:35 am MST View Session
Your VMs Are Just CRDs: Git-Native Virtual Machine Fleets with Flux
William Rizzo, Mirantis
Mon, Nov 9 • 9:45 - 10:10 am MST View Session
Beyond GitOps: Extending Flux for the Enterprise - AI, Security, Air-Gapped Delivery and the Next Gen
Andrew Martin, ControlPlane
Mon, Nov 9 • 10:10 - 10:15 am MST View Session
From Helmfile to Flux: GitOps for Telco at Enterprise Scale
Carl-Fredrik Sundstrom & Jesús González Royo, Ericsson
Mon, Nov 9 • 10:40 - 11:05 am MST View Session
Agentic GitOps: Agent and Sandbox Guardrails with Flux
Leigh Capili, ControlPlane & Tamao Nakahara, Helix.ml
Mon, Nov 9 • 11:15 - 11:40 am MST View Session
Zero-Touch App Team Onboarding: Powering Self-Service Kubernetes at Enterprise Scale with Flux
Tiffany Wang & Anthony Burris, Morgan Stanley
Mon, Nov 9 • 11:50 am - 12:15 pm MST View Session
Your Git Repo Is Not a Backup: Kubernetes Disaster Recovery with Flux and Velero
Rushabh Shah, Docker Captain & Shivani Rathod, Motorola Solutions
Mon, Nov 9 • 12:25 - 12:50 pm MST View Session
FluxCon | Closing Remarks
Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & Tamao Nakahara, Helix.ml
Mon, Nov 9 • 12:50 - 12:55 pm MST View Session
Flux turns 10
This July marked ten years since the first Flux commit. What began as a small daemon applying changes to a cluster has grown into a CNCF graduated project with over 1,000 contributors, running GitOps everywhere from 5G towers to satellites. Thank you to everyone who has built, run, and shaped Flux over the past decade - we're celebrating with you this week in Salt Lake City.
Read the story: Flux turns 10!
Tamao is also giving a Project Lightning Talk, Celebrate Flux's 10 Years!, on Monday, Nov 9 at 10:22 am MST in Regency Ballroom B-D, Level 4, Hyatt Regency. View Session
Visit the Flux Project Booth
Have questions? Want to talk GitOps? Or just want to grab some stickers? Come say hi to the Flux maintainers!
Kiosk P-2B, Project Pavilion
We’ll be showing off our new CLI plugins: Flux Schema for validating manifests and Flux Mirror for mirroring images, charts, and OCI artifacts.
The Project Pavilion is in the Solutions Showcase, Hall 5, Level 1 of the Salt Palace.
Also check out fluxcd/agent-skills, to help you work with your repos and clusters more effectively within Claude Code, Copilot, Kiro, and more.
Flux at KubeCon
Catch these Flux sessions during the main conference. Two Flux maintainers are speaking on Tuesday afternoon:
GitOps Without You Writing YAML: How Flux Grounds AI Agents in Real APIs
Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
Tues, Nov 10 • 4:40pm - 5:10pm MSTSalt Palace | Level 2 | 251 D-F View Session
You Don't Have to Choose: Argo and Flux Are Friends!
Emily Chen, Akuity & Leigh Capili, ControlPlane
Tues, Nov 10 • 2:50pm - 3:20pm MSTSalt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC View Session
Talks on Flux & GitOps
These sessions come from end-users and contributors running Flux and GitOps in production. Make a friend and share your experiences!
From Maintenance Chaos to Steady Uptime: GitOps-Driven Scheduling across GPU Fleets
Natalie Bandel & Soumya Balakrishnan, NVIDIA
Thurs, Nov 12 • 1:50pm - 2:20pm MSTHyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom CD View Session
When Infrastructure Breaks in Production: How EarnIn Brought Testing to the Full CNCF Stack
Priya Namasivayam, EarnIn
Tues, Nov 10 • 12:20pm - 12:50pm MSTSalt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI View Session
GitOps Meltdown: How a Commit Triggered a Cascading Delete of 39 Clusters in Production
Deepak Goel, Nutanix
Tues, Nov 10 • 5:30pm - 6:00pm MSTSalt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC View Session
Announcing Flux 2.10 GA
We're happy to announce the Flux 2.10 General Availability release, bringing SPIFFE workload identity to the GitOps Toolkit.
Key highlights include:
- SPIFFE integration (RFC-0014) - Flux objects can present short-lived credentials to registries, secret stores, and remote clusters
- Inter-controller mutual TLS
- Object-level workload identity is now generally available
- Multi-tenant artifact generation
- Alerting APIs (
Alert,Provider,Event) promoted to stable v1 - New alerting providers: Zoom Team Chat, incident.io, and Mastodon
Ecosystem News:
- Flux Operator Web UI gains metrics and Node debugging views
- Flux MCP Server adds resource tracing, manifest diffing, and cluster event tools
Flux Resources
Flux (and Flagger) is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible. It is the GitOps engine for Microsoft's Arc Kubernetes, AWS's EKS-Anywhere, GitLab, and many more.
Flux is a CNCF graduated project and is General Availability.
- Get started: fluxcd.io
- Get help: fluxcd.io/support
- Add yourself! fluxcd.io/adopters
Ecosystem
Flux has a rich ecosystem of extensions and compatible, open software. Here are a few things to look at:
- Flux Operator Web UI: lightweight, mobile friendly
- Installing Flux Operator: Migrate from `flux bootstrap`
- Headlamp's UI for Flux: Flux UI blog post
- Flux Schema: manifest validation + the Ecosystem Catalog: fluxcd/flux-schema
- Flux Mirror: declarative artifact mirroring: fluxcd/flux-mirror
- GitOps Agent Skills: fluxcd/agent-skills
- CI/CD for GenAI:GenAI example using Flux: helixml/genai-cicd-ref