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Posts in 2022
April 2022 update
2022-05-03 in Blog
tl;dr: New Flux and Flagger releases bring you the latest and greatest just yet! KubeCon news, GitOps Days coming up and lots of new resources - potentially the most newly added videos in particular! Lots of great contributions from our community. 💖
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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of May 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in April - it has been a lot! Update: Earlier versions of this post referred …
Contributing to Flux
2022-04-13 in Blog
tl;dr: "It takes a village" - that's true for the Flux community as well. And there are countless ways to join the team and help out. In this post we list a lot of them. Some very small, so you can definitely do your part and join Team Flux as well!
📈 Our Community is growing We are very pleased to see that our community is growing, whichever metric you apply. Number of members in Slack or mailing list, newly added adopters or projects in our ecosystem - all numbers are going up. Even the length of our monthly updates is growing every month. As many asked in the past months how to get involved in the Flux community, let’s walk you …
March 2022 Update
2022-04-04 in Blog
tl;dr: New Flux and Flagger releases bring more security and features and bring us ever more closely to GA, many new adopters have joined our community, Flux articles and docs, upcoming Flux events helping you get started 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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of April 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in March - it has been a lot! Update: Earlier versions of this post …
Flux puts the Git into GitOps
2022-03-25 in Blog
tl;dr: Flux integrates very tightly with all relevant APIs and SDKs. For us to provide the best possible Git support to bring you GitOps, shelling out to Git is not an option. Find out why in this blog post.
Ever since the rewrite of Flux as a set of focused controllers, it has become clearer what each of its functions and capabilities are. The aptly named controllers carry in their name what they are responsible for and which data or tooling they interact with, so that is, e.g. source, kustomize, image-automation, notification, helm, etc. If you wanted to string a proof-of-concept for a GitOps tool …
Flagger adds Gateway API Support
2022-03-11 in Blog
tl;dr: Flagger 1.19.0 adds support for Gateway API, which will allow us to support new Gateway API implementations seamlessly going forward. Check out the tutorial to see how you are going to benefit from this.
The Flagger team is proud to bring you Kubernetes Gateway API support as part of the 1.19.0 release. Read here about why this is a significant development in Flagger and how you can make use of it. What is Flagger? Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes. It reduces the risk of introducing a new software version in production …
Security: Using Pod Security Standard "restricted"
2022-03-09 in Blog
tl;dr: pod security standards is a recent addition to Kubernetes, coming to replace pod security policies. Alongside seccomp, it provides greater isolation levels to workloads. Read up on how we moved all Flux controllers to 'restricted' mode and how that's going to keep you safer.
Next up in our blog series about Flux Security is how we moved to Pod Security Standard “restricted”, all the background info you need to know and how that makes things safer for you. Since version 0.26 of Flux we are applying [..] the restricted pod security standard to all controllers. In practice this means: all Linux capabilities were dropped the root filesystem was set to …
February 2022 Update
2022-03-01 in Blog
tl;dr: New Flux and Flagger releases bring more security, many new adopters have joined our community, Flux articles and docs, upcoming Flux events helping you get started 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 our last update here. It’s the beginning of March 2022 - let’s recap together what happened in February - it has been a lot! News in the Flux family Latest Flux is …
Security: More confidence through Fuzzing
2022-02-22 in Blog
tl;dr: ADA Logics helped us moving to Fuzzing as part of their security audit. We finally implemented this for all Flux controllers. Learn here how this keeps you safer.
Next up in our blog series about Flux Security is how we implemented fuzzing in Flux and its controllers and how that makes things safer for you. Wikipedia explains Fuzzing like so: Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to a computer program. The program is then monitored for exceptions such as …
Security: Image Provenance
2022-02-14 in Blog
tl;dr: Next up in our series of blog posts about Flux's security considerations. This time: image provenance - how to make it part of your workflow and how it keeps you safe.
Next up in our blog series about Flux Security is how and why we use signatures for the Flux CLI and all its controller images and what you can do to verify image provenance in your workflow. Since Flux 0.26 our Security Docs had this addition: The Flux CLI and the controllers' images are signed using Sigstore Cosign and GitHub OIDC. The container images along with their signatures are published …
Security: The Value of SBOMs
2022-02-07 in Blog
tl;dr: The first in our series of blog posts about Flux's security considerations. This time: what a Software Bill of Materials can do to keep you safe.
Flux - built with security in mind You don’t get to re-architect a successful project very often, but we did about two years ago. The Flux project was already off to a great start and had many happy adopters and many of its design principles we kept at the forefront of our mind: Pull vs Push: if you haven’t read this great blog post from 2018 about why you want Pull - all it says still …