Flux at KubeCon NA 2025

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

FluxCon

FluxCon is Here!

The first-ever FluxCon is our co-located event for the whole community.

When: Monday, November 10, 2025

Where: Building B | Level 3 | B309

View the Full FluxCon Schedule

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!

Booth 8A, 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 :)

Talks on Flux

Don't miss these Flux and GitOps-ecosystem sessions during the main conference.

Tamao Nakahara

Project Lightning Talk: ⚡ GitOps With Or Without Git Using Flux

Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer

Mon, Nov 10 • 4:10pm - 4:15pm EST
Building C | Level 3 | Georgia Ballroom 2 View on Sched
Stefan Prodan Dipti Pai

Flux - The GitLess GitOps Edition

Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Dipti Pai, Microsoft

Tues, Nov 11 • 5:45pm - 6:15pm EST
Building C | Level 3 | Georgia Ballroom 2 View on Sched
Stefan Prodan

AI-Assisted GitOps With Flux MCP Server

Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane

Thurs, Nov 13 • 11:00am - 11:30am EST
Building B | Level 2 | B206 View on Sched

Talks about GitOps

These talks cover techniques that are useful with Flux. Make a friend and share your experiences!

Jesse Suen

Bringing OCI into the GitOps World

Jesse Suen, Akuity

Thurs, Nov 13 • 11:45am - 12:15pm EST
Building B | Level 4 | B406b-407 View on Sched
Alexis Richardson Brian Grant

GitOps Without Variables

Brian Grant & Alexis Richardson, ConfigHub Inc.

Thurs, Nov 13 • 1:45pm - 2:15pm EST
Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 View on Sched
Dag Bjerre-Andersen

GitOps and the Manifest Dilemma: Helm, Kustomize, Crossplane, Kro, and Beyond

Dag Bjerre-Andersen, Egmont

Thurs, Nov 13 • 1:45pm - 2:15pm EST
Building B | Level 3 | B312-314 View on Sched

Announcing Flux 2.7 GA

We're thrilled to announce the Flux 2.7 General Availability release. This is a major milestone, bringing GA status to our image update automation features.

Key highlights include:

  • General Availability of Image Update Automation
  • New API: ExternalArtifact for extending Flux with your own sources
  • New API: ArtifactGenerator for composing sources and decomposing monorepos
  • HelmRelease using valuesFrom can now watch ConfigMaps and Secrets for value changes
  • OpenTelemetry (OTEL) tracing support

Read the full 2.7 Release Announcement

Flux 2.7.x Upgrade Instructions The Flux 2.7 release removes old API versions. To ensure a smooth upgrade, please follow the detailed instructions before updating your clusters.

Upgrade instructions & Support here

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.

Ecosystem

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