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#KubeCon #CloudNativeCon
Flux CD
Gitless GitOps
Dipit Pai - Microsoft
Flux maintainer
Stefan Prodan - ControlPlane
Flux & Flagger maintainer
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Flux - GitOps Pipeline
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Flux - Gitless GitOps Pipeline
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Flux - GitRepo → OCIRepo
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Flux - HelmChart → OCIRepository
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Flux - Artifacts Publishing
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Flux - GitHub Actions
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Flux Operator - OCI Artifacts Support
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Passwordless
Authentication
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FluxCD Hub-Spoke Scenario
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Secrets Everywhere
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New Features
Ecosystem News
Roadmap 2026
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Flux v2.7 - Release Highlights
🔄 New ArtifactGenerator API - Extends Flux with advanced source composition and decomposition
patterns.
⚡ Instant Reconciliation - Flux now watches referenced ConfigMaps & Secrets and triggers immediate
reconciliation on changes. No more waiting for the interval!
🔐 Complete Workload Identity Integration - Secret-less authentication across AWS, Azure, and GCP for
all Flux resources, including hub-and-spoke cluster management.
📊 OpenTelemetry Tracing - Full observability into Flux reconciliation workflows with proper trace
relationships.
https://fluxcd.io/blog/2025/09/flux-v2.7.0/
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Flux - Ecosystem Highlights
Flux MCP
AI-Assisted GitOps - from pipelines generation to troubleshooting to cross-cluster analysis.
https://fluxcd.control-plane.io/mcp/
Flux Operator
New Features: Deployment window for apps delivery, Gitless image automation, GitHub App bootstrap.
https://fluxcd.control-plane.io/operator/
Backstage Plugin
Backstage Flux UI for monitoring the delivery pipelines with sync, suspend and resume actions
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@backstage-community/plugin-flux/
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Flux - Roadmap Highlights
Helm v4
Add support for Helm v4 and the new Helm Chart format to helm-controller and source-controller.
MTTR Reduction
Reduce the mean time to recovery (MTTR) in case of a failed deployments by canceling
ongoing health checks and tests performed by kustomize-controller and helm-controller.
Drift Detection Ignore Rules
Extend Flux Server-Side Apply to allow in-cluster mutation based on JSON path expressions.
https://fluxcd.io/roadmap/
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Flux - Status Page
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