Posts in 2021
Flux Security Audit has concluded
2021-11-10 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux just went through a CNCF-funded Security Audit. Here we publicly release and discuss the report. We also disclose our first CVE, which was fixed in Flux v0.18.0 - please upgrade as soon as you can!
As Flux is an Incubation project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, we were graciously granted a sponsored audit. The primary aim was to assess Flux’s fundamental security posture and to identify next steps in its security story. The audit was commissioned by the CNCF, and facilitated by OSTIF (the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund). ADA Logics was quickly brought into the …
November 2021 update
2021-10-29 in Blog
tl;dr: New releases in the Flux family (Server-Side Apply in Flux, Flagger 1.15). Max Jonas Werner (D2IQ) and Soulé Ba + Sunny (Weaveworks) are new Flux maintainers, lots of event news, Flux and OpenShift and much much 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 last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in October - there has been so much happening! News in the Flux family Server side apply has landed We gave you a …
October 2021 update
2021-10-01 in Blog
tl;dr: Server-side reconciliation is coming, better transport and crypto support for libgit2, Flagger 1.14, KubeCon updates, GitOps One-Stop Shop Event to show-case Flux integrated being used in big GitOps offerings, community news!
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 last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in September - there has been so much happening! Flux Project Facts We are very proud of what we put together, …
Server-side reconciliation is coming
2021-09-28 in Blog
tl;dr: The next Flux release will bring you a new reconciler based on Kubernetes "Server-Side Apply". It will make Flux more performant, observable, less error-prone and provide a generally more delightful experience. This post informs you of the changes you need to take to be able to upgrade.
tl;dr: Server-side reconciliation will make Flux more performant, improve overall observability and going forward will allow us to add new capabilities, like being able to preview local changes to manifests without pushing to upstream. ⚠ Changes required: Due to a Kubernetes issue, we require a certain set of Kubernetes releases (starting 1.16.11 - more on this below) as a minimum. The logs, …
GitOps One-Stop Shop Event
2021-09-17 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux will be part of the GitOps Days community special event again. Learn from vendors who chose Flux for their GitOps offering: Amazon, D2IQ, Microsoft, Weaveworks.
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 …
September 2021 update
2021-08-30 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux 0.17 released, Flagger 1.13 with OpenServiceMesh support, Flux joins OperatorHub for OpenShift, Somtochi Onyekwere joins maintainers, event news 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 last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in August - there has been so much happening! Flux Project Facts We are very proud of what we put together, here …
August 2021 update
2021-07-30 in Blog
tl;dr: Controller refactoring coming up, Flux migration moving forward, Flux Bug Scrub is a regular event now! GitOpsCon North America coming up. Talk to us in Flux User Interviews! Website and Docs news, 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 last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in July - even though a lot of us took some much needed holidays, a lot has been happening! Flux Project Facts We …
July 2021 update
2021-07-02 in Blog
tl;dr: Stable Flux APIs from 0.16 onwards. 100 Flux releases. Bug Scrub community initiative. New Flagger release, Docs and website updates and lots 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 last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in June - there has been so much happening! From now on Flux APIs will be stable We moved our APIs to v1beta1, …
Flux Bug Scrub Announce
2021-06-28 in Blog
tl;dr: We are starting the Flux Bug Scrub initiative. A great way to help out in the community and get started by learning more about Flux and interacting with user issues!
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 …
June 2021 update
2021-05-31 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux 0.14 and Flagger 1.11 with lots of new features, KubeCon talks galore, Flux at CNCF Store, lots of Flux adoption. Flux governance 6 month review.
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 last month’s update here. Let’s recap what happened in May - there has been so much happening! Newest Flux release With the 0.14 release of Flux we added a number of …