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Blog: CNCF Talk: Increased security and scalability with OCI

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:20:00 +0000

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 2022): More configurability of OCI settings
v0.34 (Sep 2022): More flexibility when interacting with OCI artifacts/repositories
v0.35 (Sep 2022): verify OCI artifacts signed by cosign
v0.36 (Oct 2022): verify OCI helm charts signed by cosign plus lots of new tooling to interact with OCI using the Flux CLI

To bring you up to speed with what’s possible, Max Jonas Werner, Flux Core Maintainer and Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks, gave a talk in the CNCF Online Programme series to give some background and do a practical demo.

First off, Max explained the core GitOps concepts and gave an overview of the architecture of Flux. In the next step, he dived into how Docker and others created the Open Containers Initiative (OCI) which is a part of the Linux Foundation.

One of the key points Max is making is that we went through a transformation from Docker containers to generic application and configuration containers. More and more OCI is becoming an application delivery format.

OCI registries (which implement the distribution spec) are a commodity in the cloud space. This means that it’s very easy to get enhanced scalability this way, because pulling an OCI image is much less resource-intensive compared to a full or shallow Git clone. Additionally, high available registries are available everywhere.

It also provides many ways to secure your infrastructure. Flux leverages Kubernetes workload identity and IAM when pulling OCI artifacts from managed registries. So no more key management, no more SSH keys to generate, no more proprietary API usage for token generation. You use the same mechanism that is used for pulling container images. You might also want to check out this post about verifying authenticity of artifacts with cosign.

Max spends more than half of his presentation time for the demo, so you get a good idea of how to use these new features and integrate them into your setup.

Check out the video here:

Thanks a lot Max for taking the time to walk us through this!

Start your journey and start using Flux’s OCI features today.

Blog: Flux proudly representing at KubeCon 2022 NA

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:30:00 +0000

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 meeting you there, or seeing you in the online sessions! Meet us at our booth in-person at the Project Pavilion during KubeCon, see demos, ask questions and get involved in our community!

To make this all easier, we put together this mini-site for you: Flux @ KubeCon mini site. Go ahead and bookmark it now - there you have all the Flux things in one place.

Monday, October 24 (Flux Project Meeting at KubeCon)

13:00 - 17:00 Flux Project Meeting Room 335, Level 300

We will have talks/demos from beginner to advanced, including but not limited to: Flux basics, what’s new with Flux including OCI support, VS Code, Terraform Controller, Cosign, Helm, & Flagger, and of course you can ask Maintainers all your questions.

Tuesday, October 25 (GitOpsCon)

9:45 - 10:15 GitOpsCon: How to Achieve (Actual) GitOps with Terraform and Flux

Priyanka "Pinky" Ravi (Weaveworks)

9:45 - 10:15 GitOpsCon: Toward Full Adoption of GitOps and Best Practices at RingCentral

Tamao Nakahara (Weaveworks) and Ivan Anisimov (RingCentral)

11:10 - 11:40 GitOpsCon: Simplifying Edge Deployments Using EMCO and GitOps

Igor DC & Adarsh Vincent Chittilappilly (Intel)

11:40 - 12:10 Prometheus Days: Automate your SLO validation with Prometheus & Flagger

Sanskar Jaiswal & Kingdon Barrett (Weaveworks)

12:00 - 12:10 GitOpsCon: Why Do We Do This? The Heart of GitOps

Leigh Capili (VMware)

13:10 - 13:20 GitOpsCon: Green(ing) CI/CD: A Sustainability Journey with GitOps

Niki Manoledaki (Weaveworks)

13:40 - 14:10 GitOpsCon: Complete DR of Workloads, PVs and CSI Snapshots via Flux and Vault OSS

Kingdon Barrett (Weaveworks)

14:15 - 14:45 GitOpsCon: GitOps with Flux and OCI Registries

Soulé Ba & Scott Rigby (Weaveworks)

14:15 - 14:45 GitOpsCon: Pixie + Flux, VSCode, GitOps Observability from Top to Bottom

Somtochi Onyekwere (Weaveworks)

Wednesday, October 26 (KubeCon)

14:30 - 16:00 KubeCon: Tutorial: So You Want To Develop a Cluster API Provider

Anusha Hegde & Winnie Kwon & Sedef Savas (VMware), Richard Case (Weaveworks),

Avishay Traeger (Red Hat)

15:25 - 16:00 KubeCon: Flagger, Linkerd, And Gateway API: Oh My!

Jason Morgan (Linkerd) & Sanskar Jaiswal (Weaveworks)

15:25 - 16:00 KubeCon: Tutorial: How To Write a Reconciler Using K8s Controller-Runtime!

Scott Rigby, Somtochi Onyekwere, Niki Manoledaki & Soulé Ba (Weaveworks),

Amine Hilaly (Amazon Web Services)

Thursday, October 27 (KubeCon)

11:00 - 11:35 KubeCon: Learn About Helm And Its Ecosystem

Andrew Block & Karena Angell (Red Hat), Matt Farina (SUSE) Scott Rigby (Weaveworks)

14:30 - 15:05 KubeCon: Flux Maturity, Feature, and Contrib Update

Somtochi Onyekwere & Kingdon Barrett (Weaveworks)

Friday, October 28 (KubeCon)

11:00 - 12:30 KubeCon: Flux ContribFest

Room 410 B

Conclusion

Again: Here is the Flux @ KubeCon mini site. Go ahead and bookmark it now - there you have all the Flux things in one place.

Thanks to everyone who helped to organise and prepare the event and talks! Good luck and safe travels to everyone - have a lot of fun! See you soon!

Blog: GitOps Days - VSCode Extension Demo

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:30:00 +0000

Helping to close out GitOps Days 2022, Kingdon Barrett, OSS Engineer at Weaveworks, Flux Maintainer, and maintainer of the Weaveworks GitOps Tools extension for VSCode presented the new Flux extension. Kingdon showed the new extension and how it helps minimize context switching, keeping you in your editor where you can be most productive!

The presentation starts down in the trenches after Kingdon launched the new VSCode Extension Marketplace page and soft-launched the extension’s availability to install from the store the night before, and fully launching the marketplace entry during the conference only a few hours earlier!

The VSCode extension is still considered a prerelease even though it’s been available for some time and is in the store now. Since the extension was first launched outside of the marketplace its development was hampered with low usage and low discoverability. He wanted to avoid launching with glaring usability issues and ensure that integration with Flux was a tight fit. Ultimately several key usability issues have been addressed since the alpha extension was demonstrated in an earlier state, and he decided that GitOpsDays was going to be a great time to formally launch the extension in the store!

The addition of a Flux status widget in the VSCode editor makes monitoring the changes as Flux automatically deploys without leaving the comfort of your editor window a total snap.

When Flux detects an issue in your manifest and the deployment fails, the editor extension shines most brightly as you can see the error and the condition status in a mouse-over hover panel above the resources that are having issues.

This quick demonstration gives an overview of the GitOps extension for Flux, and also what it’s like to use the extension to help recover when things have gone wrong. What kind of live demo is it if nothing went wrong? (Hint…an unrealistic one, as something always goes wrong!) These tools make recovery fast and ensure you can do it without a heavy context switch out of the editor and into monitoring dashboards or terminal CLI debugging land.

If you want to try it out, just search “GitOps” or “FluxCD” in the extension marketplace! The new VSCode extension is available right now, in the marketplace, no compiler necessary.

If you’re already familiar with the VSCode Kubernetes extension then you’ll be happy to know the configuration of both are identical, as the Flux VSCode extension just uses your KUBECONFIG there is nothing else to configure, so you can start using the extension to help manage your workloads and avoid unnecessary context switching in your day to day!

Here’s the video in its entirety if you’d like to watch from start to finish:

Next Steps

The GitOps Days team will be publishing more blog posts along with videos from the event to the GitOps Days 2022 Playlist, so stay tuned for more as they become available. And don’t forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel!

Blog: GitOps Days 2022

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:30:00 +0000

The Flux Community is proud to play a central part in the upcoming GitOps Days event. In a free two-day event we will join in and all learn from Flux maintainers, adopter use-cases, end-user stories and integrators who use Flux to power their GitOps offerings.

The event is a testament to what we as a community have accomplished together, how GitOps as a best-practise has evolved and to the general growth of the ecosystem.

We hope you will join us, as the event is a lot of fun, a great way to get to know people and get inspired.

GitOps Days 2022 is a free 2-day online event on June 8-9, 2022.

This is THE event for your GitOps journey! Getting started? Taking GitOps to the next level? We’ll cover all of the steps for your success!

The event will run from ~7:00 am Pacific Time to ~3:00 pm PT each day as a free online event.

✨✨ Register now to reserve your spot to receive updates to the schedule and speakers. ✨✨

Join the conversation! Chat with the speakers and other attendees!

Invite yourself at https://slack.weave.works and hang out with us at #gitopsdays

Event Schedule

The event is packed with great speakers and talks, here is an excerpt to whet your appetite.

Day 1 will bring you the fantastic mix of a GitOps hands-on tutorial, keynotes, demos how GitOps products have been successfully based on top of Flux and other news from our ecosystem.

Hands-on Tutorial: Intro to Kubernetes, GitOps, and Observability – Tiffany Wang (Weaveworks) & Joaquin Rodriguez (Microsoft)
Keynote: CNCF Ecosystem & GitOps as a Natural Evolution of Kubernetes – Taylor Dolezal (CNCF)
Keynote: GitOps is the Way to Overcome the Scaling Wall by Introducing New Operational Models? An Enterprise Market Perspective – Philippe Ensarguet (Orange)
Keynote: GitOps’ Wealth of Opportunity – Mae Large (VMware)
Keynote: GitOps Business Benefits at State Farm – Rayce Brossette (State Farm)
GitOps with Weave GitOps – James Wilson (Weaveworks)
GitOps in Microsoft Azure with Flux – Chris Sanders & Jonathan Innis (Microsoft)
GitOps with Amazon EKS Anywhere – Chandler Hoisington & Joey Wang (AWS)
GitOps with VMware Tanzu Application Platform – Leigh Capili (VMware)
How D2iQ Operates Flux – Deepak Goel & Max Jonas Werner (D2iQ)
GitOps with Flux on OpenShift – Andrew Block (Red Hat)
Reconcile Terraform Resources the GitOps Way – Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi (Weaveworks) & Roberth Strand (Crayon)
Securing Kubernetes Secrets for GitOps with HashiCorp Vault – Rosemary Wang (HashiCorp)
Happier Helming with GitOps and Flux – Scott Rigby (Weaveworks, Flux & Helm Maintainer)
Introducing Flux Visual Studio Code Extension in Public Beta – Kingdon Barrett (Weaveworks)

On Day 2 we will dive deeper. Particularly security and policy management will be hot topics. And if you are interested in how other organisations implemented GitOps, check out the wealth of user success stories.

Flux & Flagger Deep Dives – Philip Laine (Xenit) & Stefan Prodan (Weaveworks)
Crayon’s Cloud Native Journey – Roberth Strand (Crayon)
GitOps & Progressive Delivery with Flux, Flagger, and Istio – Marco Amador (Anova)
GitOps with Flux at Safaricom – Winnie Gakuru (Safaricom)
Key Learnings from Migrating from Flux1 to Flux2 – Josh Callis (OSO.sh)
GitOps, A Slightly Realistic Situation on Kubernetes with Flux – Laurent Grangeau (Google) & Ludovic Piot (theGarageBandOfIT)
GitOps + Security – Anaïs Urlichs (Aqua Security)
Applying GitOps to Everything with Flux + Crossplane – Viktor Farcic (Upbound)
GitOps and Flux at State Farm (Technical Deep Dive) – Rayce Brossette & Perry Wu (State Farm)
Multi-tenancy Best Practices Using the Cloud Native Ecosystem: ZScaler’s GitOps Journey – Josh Carlisle & Neeta Rathi (ZScaler)
GitOps at RingCentral with Flux & Flagger – Ivan Anisimov (RingCentral)
Flagger and Linkerd revisited: how I learned to stop worrying and use A/B testing – Jason Morgan (Buoyant)
GitOps and Flux Scaled to Hundreds of Developers – Bryan Oliver (Independent) & Kingdon Barrett (Weaveworks)
Policy Management & GitOps – Tony Chong (Weaveworks / Magalix)

Leading through the programme are our MCs Tamao Nakahara and Vanessa Abankwah from Weaveworks’ DX team. Daniel Holbach aka DJ Desired State will play his newest favorites in the breaks.

Please make sure you check the actual schedule on https://www.gitopsdays.com/ as it might be subject to change.

We are very much looking forward to the event and hope you’ll be there with us too! Register today!

#flexyourflux

The #flexyourflux campaign we started for KubeCon is still ongoing. Only here you can still win a 1h-long 1-on-1 meeting with Flux Core Maintainer Stefan Prodan.

Get your limited edition @fluxcd T-shirts at @KubeCon_ EU only! In person at Valencia only!#flexyourflux with our quiz at pick up your shirt at the Flux booth! https://t.co/BHxJxeYhRq @kubernetesio #GitOps pic.twitter.com/HWD2Uru0PX
— Tamao Nakahara - DevRelCon July 18-19🎉 (@mewzherder) May 17, 2022

The t-shirts unfortunately are out of stock, but the meeting with Stefan is still up for grabs! We will draw the lucky winners live at the GitOps Days event.

Blog: KubeCon EU 2022 Wrap-Up

Wed, 25 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

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 us 🤗 pic.twitter.com/RfcTioi58Q
— Stefan Prodan (@stefanprodan) May 16, 2022

Monday

On Monday we kicked off the day for Flux with a Project Meeting. We are grateful we had this opportunity through the CNCF to offer a 4 hour event available to any interested community members. Stefan Prodan, Leigh Capili and Priyanka Ravi led various talks and provided a great and very diverse overview of what’s happening in Flux and adjacent tooling these days and how to best take advantage of it.

What a great kick-off to a great week of Flux and #GitOps at @kubecon_ - thanks @stefanprodan @r6by @capileigh @PinkyyRavi and Vanessa for leading the 4h Flux Project Meeting! 😍 pic.twitter.com/6YdxRNHNRM
— Flux Project (@fluxcd) May 16, 2022

Thanks as well Vanessa Abankwah for pulling all the strings in the background!

The Cloud Native Telco Day was happening as well on Monday and Philippe Ensarguet, CTO at Orange Business, live-tweeted some of the learnings there. We are very pleased to know that the GitOps setup of Swisscom is based on Flux. Deutsche Telekom is continuing their voyage on Das Schiff together with Flux as well.

Tuesday - GitOpsCon

Who would have thought a couple of years ago that one day we would have an entire conference day just about GitOps - this year it was two simultaneous tracks no less. We want to thank the Open GitOps group for organising this and inviting great speakers from across all of the GitOps space!

Taken from the CNCF flickr account.

Let’s kick the day at #kubecon with opening session cooked by @r6by, @todaywasawesome, and @ChrisShort sharing what #GitOps is, and how to get it right🚀
Special thoughts to my mate @monadic who defined this initial idea of #operation by pull request👏#GitOpsCon pic.twitter.com/5znl1txRuj
— Philippe Ensarguet (@P_Ensarguet) May 17, 2022

Here is our own small selection of favourites. If you want to see all the talks from GitOpsCon, take a look at the YouTube channel of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation - there are loads more.

Crossing the Divide: How GitOps Brought AppDev & Platform Teams Together! - Priyanka "Pinky" Ravi, Weaveworks
Michael Irwin on using Flux for multi-tenancy: Creating A Landlord for Multi-tenant K8s Using Flux, Gatekeeper, Helm, and Friends - Michael Irwin
AppsFlyer talks about Flux at the core of their huge infra:
- GitOps Everything!? We Sure Can!, Ayelet de-Roos, AppsFlyer
- We Have Always Done It This Way! Now Let’s Try Something Completely Different - Eliran Bivas
Max’ talk about Flux for multi-cluster envs: Managing Thousands of Clusters and Their Workloads with Flux - Max Jonas Werner, D2iQ
Environment promotion (Form3): Solving Environment Promotion with Flux - Sam Tavakoli & Adelina Simion, Form3
Lightning Talks:
- Secret decryption: Lightning Talk: Hiding in Plain Sight - How Flux Decrypts Secrets - Somtochi Onyekwere, Weaveworks
- Progressive delivery: Lightning Talk: GitOps and Progressive Delivery with Flagger, Istio and Flux - Marco Amador, Anova
- GitOps, A Slightly Realistic Situation on Kubernetes with Flux - Laurent Grangeau, Google & Ludovic Piot, theGarageBandOfIT

Wednesday - Friday - KubeCon

Wednesday through Friday was the main event, with the big keynotes, talks on many different tracks and a big booth space. We are happy we had such a great team at the Flux booth because ours was massively frequented and our team gave a huge amount of demos, answered questions and were there to hang out with.

In addition to the physical booth in Valencia, we had a virtual booth as well, where Kingdon Barrett held our weekly Bug Scrub event and we gave a number of lightning talks as well.

Lightning talks at the virtual booth

First up was Sanskar Jaiswal, Software Engineer at Weaveworks, who recently became Flagger maintainer and contributed Gateway API support. Watch the demo here:

We were happy to have Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp, there who walked us through securing secrets in Flux by using Vault:

#flexyourflux

Another contributing factor to the amount of people coming to our booth was the #flexyourflux campaign, where you could

Get a nice “flex your flux” t-shirt for answering a couple of questions about Flux
Win an opportunity to have a 1-on-1 1h long meeting with Stefan Prodan, Flux core maintainer

Get your limited edition @fluxcd T-shirts at @KubeCon_ EU only! In person at Valencia only!#flexyourflux with our quiz at pick up your shirt at the Flux booth! https://t.co/BHxJxeYhRq @kubernetesio #GitOps pic.twitter.com/HWD2Uru0PX
— Tamao Nakahara - DevRelCon July 18-19🎉 (@mewzherder) May 17, 2022

The t-shirts were only available in person, but the meeting with Stefan you can still win, simply enter by filling out https://bit.ly/flexyourflux. We will draw the winners live at GitOps Days (see below). Good luck to all participants!

Talks you might have missed

Getting Started with Flux and GitOps

Tiffany Wang from Weaveworks and Joaquin Rodriguez led through a 1.5h hands-on tutorial called “ Intro to Kubernetes, GitOps and Observability”. The idea was to offer newcomers a quick way to experience Kubernetes and its natural evolutionary developments: GitOps and Observability. Attendees were able to use and experience the benefits of Kubernetes that impact reliability, velocity, security, and more. The session covered key concepts and practices, as well as offer attendees a way to experience the commands in real-time. The tutorial covers: kubectl, K9s, Metrics (Prometheus), Dashboards (Grafana), Logging (Fluent Bit), GitOps (Flux).

The feedback we heard from people on the ground was that they had a blast. If you missed it: good news - it’ll be happening at GitOps Days as well!

The Flux Deep Dive

Stefan Prodan delivered the Flux Deep Dive session - this time focused on security aspects.

"Flux Security Deep Dive" by @stefanprodan #Flux @fluxcd #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon pic.twitter.com/rGQ5jWdFpm
— Nico Meisenzahl ☁️☕️ (@nmeisenzahl) May 18, 2022

There was a lot to be learnt and since security has been such a big focus for the entire team since the rewrite of Flux, also a lot to catch up on.

Stefan will give his talk at GitOps Days too (see below).

Flux Virtual Office Hours

Flux Maintainers Paulo Gomes & Kingdon Barrett hosted the Flux Virtual Office Hours where they covered the latest Flux features, what’s coming soon, and an intro to debugging the controllers for new contributors. Check out the replay here:

What’s more

Obviously the hallway track is one of the key events at KubeCon. It’s where you find new friends, learn and make new plans with other community members. There was a lot of this at the booth, at lunch and at the evening events.

In addition to that, many new users and community members find their way to Slack, our Twitter and LinkedIn group. We are also especially pleased that some new adopters added themselves to our website - remember that’s one of the safest ways to make Flux maintainers happy. 🥰

We expect that more talk videos are going to get to us in the next days and we will make sure to mention them all on our resources page and in our monthly updates.

Outlook: GitOps Days

If you had a FOMO experience over the last week, we are happy to let you know that GitOps Days are coming up! A free, two days event with lots of great talks, a lot of fun and lots to catch up with in case you missed seeing talks at KubeCon.

GitOps Days!
June 8-9, 2022

This is THE event for your GitOps Journey! Getting started? Taking GitOps to the next level? We’ll cover all of the steps for your success!

Come hear from speakers like Taylor Dolezal (CNCF), Anaïs Urlichs (Aqua Security, CNCF Ambassador), Viktor Farcic (Upbound/Crossplane), Mae Large (VMware), Rosemary Wang (HashiCorp), Jason Morgan (Buoyant/Linkerd), and so many more!

Big Thank You

This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of many many people.

People speaking: Stefan Prodan, Somtochi Onyekwere, Max Jonas Werner, Priyanka Ravi, Tiffany Wang, Paulo Gomes, Scott Rigby, Kingdon Barrett, Sanskar Jaiswal and others.

Folks organising, writing, fact-checking and supporting the booth: Vanessa Abankwah, Stacey Potter, Tamao Nakahara, Juozas Gaigalas and others.

And of course many people from adjacent communities, adopter companies and of course the CNCF.

Sorry if we missed to mention anyone.

And in closing out, here is a short selection of official KubeCon photos, all around Flux and GitOps:

Blog: Flux at KubeCon EU 2022

Thu, 12 May 2022 07:30:00 +0000

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 in-person this time around. Don’t worry, we have you covered! There will be lots of opportunities to meet Flux people online, see talks, discuss and learn from each other.

There’s just one thing you need to do to join: visit our Flux at KubeCon site and bookmark it. It lists all the talks and all events - everything Flux-related in one place.

We are also going to have a Virtual Booth. This will allow you to talk to Flux people at all official booth times, we will have short talks, watch some of the talks together and bring like-minded people together. We can’t wait to meet you there.

Visit our Flux at KubeCon site and bookmark it now!

🎉 Flex your Flux knowledge and win prizes! 🎉

If you are at KubeCon, this is your chance to get a limited edition T-shirt (while supplies last) and a chance to win a meeting with a Flux or Flagger maintainer!

Essentially what you need to do is

Visit the "Flux Booth in the Project Pavilion"
You will be given a Flux question, if you answer correctly, you will win a T-shirt
If you answer an advanced question you will win a T-Shirt + an 1-hour meeting with a Flux maintainer (winners announced after KubeCon).
Make sure you tweet using #flexyourflux

If you are entering virtually make sure you participate online by tweeting questions will be posted during KubeCon so keep an eye out for them !!!

Visit the Flux booth (we are number 6) in person for more info and follow #flexyourflux from the @fluxcd Twitter handle.

At KubeCon, watch out for these folks

There will be lots more of Team Flux in the crowds: contributors, advocates, friends, implementers and folks in adjacent communities we work a lot with. Find them at our physical booth or in all of the sessions listed below.

All right, how about these folks above? They will all give sessions, MC the events and coordinate all the things.

Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi has been speaking about her experience as a DevOps Engineer a lot lately. She gathered a lot of experience working at a large insurance institution and helped them transition to Flux and GitOps. Since then she has been a recurring guest at Weave Online User Group, GitOps Days and elsewhere.
Stefan Prodan is the creator of Flagger and has been a core maintainer of Flux since Weaveworks donated the project to CNCF. He is a maintainer of SMI and he's been part of Team Flux for 4+ years already. He is also the owner of a very cute dog.
Scott Rigby is a maintainer of Flux and Helm, and one of the chairs of OpenGitOps. He knows the ecosystem very well, contributed a lot to all these projects and was one of the driving forces behind Flux Governance.
Philips Laine is a core maintainer of Flux as well and among other things founded the terraform-provider-flux project.
Vanessa Abankwah is pulling all the strings behind the scenes. Not only did she organise all of our presence at KubeCon, but lots and lots of meetups and events where Team Flux was present.
Max Jonas Werner is a core maintainer of Flux as well and makes sure that Flux works great in D2iQ’s DKP platform. Apart from that he is interested in landing OCI support in Flux and loads more.

Everyone is looking forward to meeting you! 💖

This is what is happening at KubeCon

Monday, 16 May

13:00 - 17:00 (Room 2H - Event Center): Flux Project Meeting: We will kick off the Flux get-togethers and festivities with an in-person meeting for all Flux users, contributors, maintainers and generally interested folks. This will be an opportunity to get to know each other, have a chat and see what people’s interests are. ( Sign up here.) Contact people on the ground are: Scott Rigby, Priyanka Ravi and Stefan Prodan.

Schedule:

13:00 Meet and greet
13:30 Intro to GitOps and Flux lightning talk + Q&A with Pinky
14:00 Flux’s Top 10 Features with Stefan Prodan + Q&A/office hours
15:00 Open topics. We can do office hours or mix and match with lightning talks on Flux + Helm, Flux + Terraform, Flux + HashiCorp Vault, Flux + Visual Studio Code, etc. Whatever people want.

Click here to register ( here) for the Flux Project Meeting. (Free, in-person, no special ticket required)

Details Flux Project Meeting

Monday, May 16, 13:00 - 17:00 CEST

Room 2H | Event Center

Space is limited Please note: we will not have any live streaming, recordings, or any virtual component available for this meeting.

Tuesday 17 May - GitOpsCon

Lots and lots of talks about GitOps in general and Flux in particular, here’s a short selection of what to look forward to:

What is GitOps and How to Get It Right - Dan Garfield (Codefresh); Chris Short (AWS) & Scott Rigby (Weaveworks) (9:00 - 9:35)
Hiding in Plain Sight - How Flux Decrypts Secrets - Somtochi Onyekwere (Weaveworks) (11:05 - 11:15)
Taming the Thundering Gitops Herd with Update Policies - Joaquim Rocha & Iago López Galeiras (Microsoft) (11:35 - 11:45)
GitOps and Progressive Delivery with Flagger, Istio and Flux - Marco Amador (Anova) (13:20-13:30)
Creating A Landlord for Multi-tenant K8s Using Flux, Gatekeeper, Helm, and Friends - Michael Irwin (Docker) (13:35-14:05)
GitOps, A Slightly Realistic Situation on Kubernetes with Flux - Laurent Grangeau (Google) & Ludovic Piot (theGarageBandOfIT) (14:10 - 14:40)
Solving Environment Promotion with Flux - Sam Tavakoli & Adelina Simion (Form3) (14:10 - 14:40)
Managing Thousands of Clusters and Their Workloads with Flux - Max Jonas Werner (D2iQ) (14:55 - 15:25)
Crossing the Divide: How GitOps Brought AppDev & Platform Teams Together! - Russ Palmer (State Farm) & Priyanka ‘Pinky’ Ravi (Weaveworks) (15.30 - 16:00)
GitOps Everything!? We Sure Can!, AppsFlyer (15:30 - 16:00)
Lightning Talk: Addressing Log4Shell with Software Supply Chains - Duane DeCapite (VMware) (18:04 - 18:09)

Wednesday 18 May - Friday May 20 - KubeCon

Over these three days we are going to be at the Flux booth (both virtually and on the ground), so come over for a chat. We are planning loads of talks, demos and ample time to have a chat, get to know everyone, ask questions and have great new ideas together!

On top of that, here is a list of talks, workshops and sessions during those days:

Wed 18: Flux Security Deep Dive - Stefan Prodan (Weaveworks) (11:55 - 12:30)
Wed 18: Intro to Kubernetes, GitOps, and Observability Hands-On Tutorial - Johee Chung (Microsoft) & Tiffany Wang (Weaveworks) (11:00 - 12:30)
Wed 18: Flux Bug Scrub - Kingdon Barrett (13:00 - 14:00)
Wed 18: A New Generation of Trusted GitOps for Mixed K8s and Non-K8s End Users - Alexis & Vasu Chandrasekhara (SAP) (15:25 - 16:00)
Thu 19: GitOps to Automate the Setup, Management and Extension a K8s Cluster - Kim Schlesinger (DigitalOcean) (11:00 - 12:30)
Thu 19: Flux Project Office Hour - Paulo Gomes (Weaveworks) (13:30 - 14:15)
Fri 20: Observing Fastly’s Network at Scale Thanks to K8s and the Strimzi Operator - Fernando Crespo & Daniel Caballero, (Fastly) (11:00 - 11:35)
Fri 20: Simplifying Service Mesh Operations with Flux and Flagger - Mitch Connors (Google) & Stefan Prodan (Weaveworks) (14:55 - 15:30)

Please note: all of the above might be subject to change. Please double-check the schedule beforehand. Please reach out to Vanessa Abankwah or Daniel Holbach on Slack if you have questions.

We very much look forward to seeing you there! 💖

What’s to come after KubeCon

GitOps Days!
June 8-9, 2022

Don’t miss this free, 2-day online event on June 8-9 (2 weeks after KubeCon). This is THE event for your GitOps Journey! Getting started? Taking GitOps to the next level? We’ll cover all of the steps for your success!

Schedule:

Talks and tutorials on how to get started with Kubernetes and GitOps
Talks from Flux users about their use cases
How to do GitOps securely
Platforms that offer GitOps: Microsoft Arc Kubernetes, AWS Anywhere, Weave GitOps, D2iQ Kubernetes Platform, and more! all using Flux!
Flux in the CNCF and the GitOps Ecosystem
Flux support and Integrations: Flux + Helm, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Jenkins, OpenShift, Visual Studio Code, and much much more!
Technical deep dives with Flux maintainers

Blog: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:30:00 +0000

Flux is going to be center stage at the GitOps One Stop Shop Event on Oct 20th, 2021.

Our friends over at GitOps Days will be hosting a special community edition to invite major players in the cloud native space who have chosen to back their GitOps offering by Flux. We are very excited that the ecosystem around GitOps is growing and so many chose Flux to bring the goodness we believe in to their users and customers.

What does this mean for you? If you are considering GitOps for your company and want to see what these vendors have to offer, this is your one-stop shopping experience for GitOps! Hear from Amazon, D2iQ, Microsoft, VMware, and Weaveworks on their GitOps offerings.

Showcased products are:

Amazon EKS Anywhere
D2iQ DKP Kommander
Microsoft Azure Arc Kubernetes
VMware Tanzu Application Platform
Weaveworks Weave GitOps

Attendance is free and will be a lot of fun.

To register today, please head to https://gitopsdays.com and put

Oct 20th, 2021
9:00am - 12:30pm Pacific time

into your calendar.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Blog: Flux Bug Scrub Announce

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:30:00 +0000

What is the Flux Bug Scrub

In the past months we have had many folks reach out to us and ask where they could get involved, make their first steps in the Flux community and give back in a way.

We started looking around and got inspired by a concept from SIG Node (who in turn were inspired by SIG CLI) over in the Kubernetes community. For us, a great way to get started, is to learn more about Flux through direct experience, when e.g. trying to reproduce issues reported by other Flux users, and the general business of chopping wood and carrying water. The Flux Bug Scrub is born.

Here is how it works

Show up at the appointed time, if you can. The first Bug Scrub is

June 30 12:00 UTC, 8:00AM ET.
Meet at #flux on the CNCF Slack,

we will provide a Zoom link closer to the event time.

We will have one or more contributors with triage access in attendance, and attempt to review each issue in the target group. (The targets will vary by week, or by event date, as this will be a recurring event on some TBD schedule.) A key goal is to figure out if a given issue can be reproduced, and report our findings. Some issues don't provide enough info to get us all the way to reproduction, so we may ask more questions and wait for the submitter to respond.

If someone present wants to volunteer to follow up an issue, we will make an assignment then. If all we can do is read the thread once and confirm that labels are still correct, (or fix them up when they were not) then it will be providing a valuable service to Flux maintainers and the community at large. A process will be demonstrated to avoid backtracking from week to week and maximize coverage. This is not a race to close the issues, but if an issue has received no reply and it looks like the submitter has lost interest, it could be closed.

Here’s what you need

A web browser
a GitHub account
the Google Drive spreadsheet app
a user on the CNCF Slack
have the Zoom app installed and up to date

before you arrive, and bring your burning desire to get to know more about Flux through reviewing open issues and PRs in the queue.

We are performing a service for the Flux project by reviewing open issues and pull requests, applying labels, checking status, and closing issues wherever it looks appropriate. If we have enough attendees, we may use a breakout room.

Attending the Zoom meeting, though not required for participating contributors, means you get to commiserate with other Flux community members in real time over issues in the queue. We will not likely be able to dwell on any individual issue for much longer than 2-5 minutes to keep the pace of progress moving at our event. Our artifacts for coordination will be published where everyone can see them (GitHub issues, milestones, Drive spreadsheet, public Slack conversations), and we will help shape and inform the roadmap of Flux for future development efforts.

Not every issue will get a response from us but we will try to hit every issue with an Emoji in our spreadsheet, to signal what state we found it in, whether it can be moved ahead, and if it needs attention or is blocked somehow. These notes will carry forward to the next Bug Scrub event, insofar as any issues we visit are still open next time.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you there! 🎈