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Flux CD

About Flux CD

Flux is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible. Flux is a CNCF Graduated project. Flux and Flagger deploy apps with canaries, feature flags, and A/B rollouts. Flux can also manage any Kubernetes resource. The desired state of a system is described in Git, including apps, configuration, dashboards, and monitoring. Everything is controlled through pull requests.

Products

Flagger: Works with Flux to deploy apps using canaries, feature flags, and A/B rollouts.

Used for

Deploying applications with canaries, feature flags, and A/B rollouts.
Managing Kubernetes resources.
Synchronizing changes automatically without running kubectl.
Pushing automated container image updates back to Git.
Managing multi-cluster infrastructure and apps with Cluster API.

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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

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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