Simplifying Service Mesh Operations with Flux and Flagger

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Service mesh upgrades are automated using GitOps: Flux + Flagger automate control- and data-plane upgrades by opening pull requests when a new Istio version appears, running Kind-based end-to-end tests and analyzers, then reconciling the cluster. The presenters show a live workflow where Flux self-upgrades, a control-plane PR applies, a follow-up PR updates injected sidecars, and a canary moves 5% of traffic to the new proxy while Prometheus gates rollout. Bad configs block via analyzers; revision-based upgrades are noted as pending.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:40CNCF Flux Project
3. 8:29Flagger - Progressive Delivery
4. 28:16Advantages Disadvantages
5. 28:56Future Workflow

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