Flux Ecosystem Evolution
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 16:15· Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2·
summary
Overview of recent Flux ecosystem changes including concrete features and demos: Flux adds Flux Operator to declaratively bootstrap and manage Flux at scale, with a resource-set API to create per-PR preview environments and automated upgrades; image automation can run outside clusters and Flux supports OCI as desired state via flux push to OCI registry. Flagger gains session-affinity cookie stickiness combined with weighted canaries and Gateway API (including AWS) and adds Knative support; Headlamp ships a Flux plugin with dashboards; Flux 2.5 adds GitHub auth and CEL-based custom health checks.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:56Image Automation and Flagger basics
- 7:08Flagger’s new features
- 10:16Session affinity in delivery
- 13:54Demo: session affinity
- 15:42Headlamp dashboard plugin
- 17:29Flux Operator intro
- 21:47Operator OCI artifacts
- 23:54Automatic upgrades
- 26:04PR environments with Resource Set
- 29:39Flux 2.5 highlights
- 31:24Flux future: CEL and roadmap
