Flux at KubeCon EU 2026

Welcome, Flux friends! We're excited to see you in Amsterdam. Here's your guide to all things Flux and GitOps at KubeCon Europe 2025.

FluxCon is here!

FluxCon is back for its second year as a CNCF-hosted co-located event - a dedicated half-day for the whole Flux community.

When: Monday, March 23, 2026 - 09:00 - 12:45 CET

Where: Elicium 1, RAI Amsterdam

View the Full FluxCon Schedule

FluxCon Sessions

A full morning of Flux talks featuring production stories from Air France–KLM, NatWest, Orange, and our maintainers.

FluxCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks

Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane

Mon, Mar 23 • 09:00 - 09:05 CET
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Vibe Coding Meets GitOps

Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane

Mon, Mar 23 • 09:10 - 09:35 CET
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Air France–KLM's GitOps Takeoff: Real Stories From the Flight Deck

Alaoui Echerif Amine & Ravi Ramrattan, Air France KLM

Mon, Mar 23 • 09:40 - 10:05 CET
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Agentic GitOps: Evolving Enterprise Delivery

Andy Martin, ControlPlane

Mon, Mar 23 • 10:10 - 10:15 CET
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May the Flux Be With You: Tales From the GitOps Trenches at NatWest

Joel King & Lee Coupe, NatWest Group

Mon, Mar 23 • 10:20 - 10:45 CET
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Towards Better Canary Releases With Flagger and Gateway API

Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong

Mon, Mar 23 • 11:00 - 11:25 CET
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Talking to Your Cluster: Conversational GitOps with Flux MCP

William Rizzo, Mirantis

Mon, Mar 23 • 11:30 - 11:55 CET
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Flux-Powered Bootstrapping a Kubernetes With GitOps and CaC

Paris Nakita Kejser, Astrona

Mon, Mar 23 • 12:00 - 12:10 CET
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Sylva, Taming Complexity With FluxCD Dependency Management

Thomas Morin & Francois Eleouet, Orange

Mon, Mar 23 • 12:15 - 12:40 CET
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Flux at KyvernoCon

Flux and Kyverno together - attend this cross-project session in the afternoon:

Policy & GitOps Unite! Kyverno and Flux Save Cluster City

Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata & Leigh Capili, ControlPlane

Mon, Mar 23 • 13:35 - 14:00 CET
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Visit the Flux Project Booth

Have questions? Want to talk GitOps? Or just want to grab some stickers? Come say hi to the Flux maintainers! Stefan will also be be at the booth for extended Q&A after each session.

Booth 5B, Project Pavilion

We’ll be using Flux Operator MCP Server to show off AI Assisted GitOps.

The Project Pavilion is located in the Solutions Showcase. We’re near the center :)

Flux at KubeCon

Catch these Flux sessions during the main conference:

⚡ Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - Gitops For All Sizes

Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer

Mon, Mar 23 • 14:15 - 14:20 CET
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From "No Time for GitOps" to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human Way

Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei, Tchibo GmbH

Wed, Mar 25 • 11:45 - 12:15 CET
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Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back

Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane

Wed, Mar 25 • 15:00 - 15:30 CET
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Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem

Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane

Thurs, Mar 26 • 13:45 - 14:15 CET
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Announcing Flux 2.8 GA

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 charts
PR/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 Resources

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.

Get started: fluxcd.io
Get help: fluxcd.io/support
Add yourself! fluxcd.io/adopters

Ecosystem

Flux has a rich ecosystem of extensions and compatible, open software. Here are a few things to look at:

Flux Operator Web UI: lightweight, mobile friendly
Installing Flux Operator: Migrate from `flux bootstrap`
Headlamp's UI for Flux: Flux UI blog post
Flux Operator MCP Server: AI Assisted GitOps
CI/CD for GenAI:GenAI example using Flux: helixml/genai-cicd-ref