Lightning Talk: GitOps and Progressive Delivery with Flagger, Istio and Flux

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Platform runs multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes with Istio, Prometheus and Loki, using Flux v1 then v2 (Source, Kustomize, Helm controllers) to manage HelmReleases and prevent drift, and Flux image automation (image reflector + image policy) to patch repos. Flagger performs canary analysis with Istio traffic shifting and Prometheus metrics, using k6/hey to generate load when production traffic is sparse, and supports dark launches via HTTP header delegation. Deployments are tenant-scoped Git repos; main remaining pain is per-cluster observability fragmentation.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:53Teck Stack
3. 1:24Scalability
4. 2:35Flux
5. 9:49Challenges

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