DirectoryFlux CD
Flux CD
About Flux CD
Flux is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible.
How to evaluate GitOps & Release Management
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25%
Reconciliation & Drift Handling
Pull-based sync correctness, drift detection and auto-heal, sync waves/hooks and ordering, health assessment of custom resources, dry-run/diff before apply, and graceful behavior on partial-sync failure and stuck resources
20%
Multi-Cluster & Fleet Scale
Cluster count the architecture sustains, ApplicationSets / bundles / agent fan-out, central control plane vs. autonomous in-cluster reconciliation, multi-tenancy and project isolation, and config templating across environments
20%
Progressive Delivery
Canary and blue-green strategies (Argo Rollouts, Flagger), automated analysis against metrics (Prometheus, Datadog), automatic rollback on SLO breach, multi-stage environment promotion (e.g. Kargo), and traffic shaping via the service mesh or ingress
15%
Secrets & Supply-Chain Security
Keeping plaintext out of Git (Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator, SOPS, CSI driver), RBAC and SSO on the control plane, signed-commit/manifest verification, image and provenance policy, and immutable audit of every sync
12%
Governance & Policy-as-Code
OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno admission gates, change approval and PR-based workflows, drift and compliance reporting, blast-radius controls (sync windows, freeze), and separation of duties across app and platform teams
8%
Operability & Support Model
Self-host vs. managed/SaaS, upgrade and HA burden of the control plane, UI and observability quality, day-2 troubleshooting, and whether a vendor SLA and roadmap back the open-source core you depend on
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