Flux friends! We had such a great time seeing you in Amsterdam. Here's what went down with all things Flux and GitOps at KubeCon Europe 2026.
FluxCon came back for its second year as a CNCF-hosted co-located event, a dedicated half-day for the whole Flux community.
Watch the talks from FluxCon
A full morning of Flux talks featured production stories from Air France-KLM, NatWest, Orange, and our maintainers.
FluxCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks
Tiffany Wang, Morgan Stanley & Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane
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Air France–KLM's GitOps Takeoff: Real Stories From the Flight Deck Alaoui Echerif Amine & Ravi Ramrattan, Air France KLM
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Agentic GitOps: Evolving Enterprise Delivery Andy Martin, ControlPlane
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May the Flux Be With You: Tales From the GitOps Trenches at NatWest Joel King & Lee Coupe, NatWest Group
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Towards Better Canary Releases With Flagger and Gateway API
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Talking to Your Cluster: Conversational GitOps with Flux MCP
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Flux-Powered Bootstrapping a Kubernetes With GitOps and CaC Paris Nakita Kejser, Astrona
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Sylva, Taming Complexity With FluxCD Dependency Management Thomas Morin & Francois Eleouet, Orange
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Flux and Kyverno come together in this cross-project session:
Policy & GitOps Unite! Kyverno and Flux Save Cluster City Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata & Leigh Capili, ControlPlane
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Had questions? Wanted to talk GitOps? Or just wanted to grab some stickers? The Flux maintainers were there! Stefan was also at the booth for extended Q&A after each session.
We used
Flux Operator MCP Server
to show off
AI Assisted GitOps .
We also launched fluxcd/agent-skills , to help you work with your repos and clusters more effectively within Claude Code, Copilot, Kiro, and more.
Flux sessions from the main conference:
⚡ Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - GitOps For All Sizes Matheus Pimenta, Core Maintainer
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From "No Time for GitOps" to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human Way Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei, Tchibo GmbH
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Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks
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Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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We're thrilled to announce the Flux 2.8 General Availability release. This is a major milestone, bringing Helm v4 support natively to Flux.
Key highlights include:
Helm v4 support with server-side apply and kstatus-based health checking
Helm v3 backward compatibility for existing releases + opt-ins
Reduced mean time to recovery - new revisions can immediately cancel stale health checks
CEL expressions for readiness evaluation of Helm-managed objects
ArtifactGenerator support for extracting and modifying Helm chartsPR/MR comment providers for preview environment feedback loops
Cosign v3 support for verifying OCI artifacts and container images
Custom SSA apply stages for ordering resource application in kustomize-controller
Read the full 2.8 Release Announcement
Flux 2.8.x Upgrade Instructions Releases of Flux 2.7+ and up remove old API versions. To ensure a smooth upgrade, please follow the detailed instructions before updating your clusters.
Upgrade instructions & Support here
Flux (and Flagger) is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible. It is the GitOps engine for Microsoft's Arc Kubernetes, AWS's EKS-Anywhere, GitLab, and many more.
Flux is a CNCF graduated project and is General Availability.
Flux has a rich ecosystem of extensions and compatible, open software.
Here are a few things to look at:
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