This months newsletter is now out! 🎉 ✨ February 2026 ✨ https://cloudnative.now/2026-february/

Flux v2.8 is out! This release marks the General Availability of Helm v4 features such as server-side apply and enhanced health checking. ❤️ Big thanks to the Helm maintainers for their work on Helm v4 and for collaborating with us to ensure a smooth integration with Flux! fluxcd.io/blog/2026/02...

We've implemented #GitOps actions in the latest Flux Operator Web UI. You can reconcile, pull latest source, and suspend/resume, with more actions to come. Check it out: fluxoperator.dev/web-ui/ ♥️ Big thanks to the #FluxCD users for the feedback that shaped this UI release.

I made a tiny macOS app to help me organise and monitor all the Kubernetes clusters I run #FluxCD tests on. I have lots of these on my laptop, homelab and clouds, so my kubeconfig is always a mess. Give it a try: github.com/stefanprodan...

An early Christmas gift for all #FluxCD users 🎁🎄 Flux Operator 0.37 is here with a brand new Web UI! We've shipped a mobile-friendly web interface that gives you real-time visibility into everything Flux manages on your clusters. Unwrap it here fluxoperator.dev/web-ui/

In 2026 I won't do much public speaking. Also me kccnceu2026.sched.com/event/2CW37/... I will chat with @stefanprodan.com about Flux and ephemeral environments based on GitHub PRs 👀 p.s. Most probably my last KubeCon, so come and say hi lol

At #FluxCon Morgan Stanley shared how they run #FluxCD to deploy tens of thousands of apps on 500+ clusters. Awesome to see all the optimizations we’ve built into Flux delivered at this scale 🎉

Found the best flat white in Edinburgh! The source coffee roasters

@stefanprodan.com kicks off track 1 at @kcduk.bsky.social with a talk on GitOps and Flux

What tells Flagger a release is safe to keep going? What is the safety mechanism? @stefanprodan.com tells how it decides, and when it rolls back. Watch the full 🌩️ Thunder episode: youtu.be/Qi9Xq_QxX7M #Kubernetes #Flagger #ProgressiveDelivery #CanaryDeployments #Prometheus

Flux v2.7 is out 🚀 Big thanks to all contributors ❤️ Image automation goes GA, new ArtifactGenerator API for advanced sources composition and decomposition patterns, hub-and-spoke OIDC auth, and so much more. fluxcd.io/blog/2025/09... #FluxCD #GitOps #Kubernetes

Happy 10-year anniversary @cncf.io 🥳 #cTENcf contribcard.cncf.io/stefanprodan

Today, we published @rawkode.dev's first editorial! ArgoCD's UI is great, but Flux's architecture is inevitable.

Check out our latest blog post on how to schedule deployments during maintenance windows with Flux Operator fluxcd.io/blog/2025/07... #FluxCD #GitOps #Kubernetes

Hey all -- this is not happening -- Slack will be comped for CNCF communities in perpetuity.

I really hope the smart people behind Kubernetes KinD will figure out a way to run #Kubernetes on Apple silicon using the new container tool 🤞 github.com/apple/contai...

After trying out various ways of writing a llms.txt for ControlPlane's #FluxCD distribution, I think I finally nailed it. Here is Claude's response after parsing the latest version:

43 today! Still rolling ☀️

Caffè Leccese is really good! Torre Canne 🇮🇹

We've released the MCP Server for #FluxCD 🚀🚀🚀 fluxcd.io/blog/2025/05...

Coffee time with my girls

Made good progress with the #FluxCD MCP Server 🚀 It can now do multi-cluster operations: track app versions and config changes across environments, cluster state diffing & Helm release comparison (dev vs stage vs prod).

With go-yaml/yaml being archived, all we need now is another high severity vuln like CVE-2022-28948 and the whole CNCF landscape will implode 🔥 Only the Kubernetes team can save us by switching all their packages to the kubernetes-sigs fork github.com/kubernetes-s...

If you want to test your controllers against Kubernetes 1.33, here are the KinD images we're using for #FluxCD e2e: - "ghcr.io/fluxcd/kindest/node:v1.33.0-amd64" - "ghcr.io/fluxcd/kindest/node:v1.33.0-arm64"

The Go team is working on an official MCP SDK using the new jsonrpc2 package. Compared to other implementations this SDK looks great! type-safe args, generics and no codegen needed 🎉 #golang github.com/golang/tools...

A couple of friendly mandarin ducks in Potsdam 🇩🇪

I'm hacking on a MCP server for troubleshooting Flux Operator and turns out it's actually good at displaying the dependency flow between the various #FluxCD resources in the #GitOps pipeline 🤯

Check out our latest blog post on how to simplify your #GitOps installation with Flux Operator and GitHub App authentication 🔐 fluxcd.io/blog/2025/04...

This is the hardest photo an event photographer has ever gotten of me

Spending the week with Flux maintainers from all over the world was fantastic ❤️ Best #KubeCon so far! Thanks @cncf.bsky.social for making it happen 🤗

This #KubeCon is very special to me. Can't wait to meet Sanskar Jaiswal in person for the first time! We've been working on Flagger for years and I never got the chance to shake his hand. Come join our talk on Wednesday! kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/359ac5...

#Monkigras was so much fun! I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you so much @monkchips.com for inviting me 🤗

"In open source you really need to be a tech writer before anything else." Stefan Prodan on the critical importance of documentation. #monkigras

Really like @stefanprodan.com makes the point that how critical being a good tech writer is when you are a maintainer of an open source project. #monkigras

On my way to London ✈️ Going to #MonkiGras tomorrow, this is the first time I’m attending and I’m so excited! Friday I’m going to talk about OSS sustainability and share my journey on becoming a maintainer in CNCF. monkigras.com

Flux v2.5 is out 🎉 This release is jam-packed with new features! We have integrated CEL to enable custom health checks, added support for GitHub App auth, ephemeral environment for Pull Requests & Merge Request and so much more. #fluxcd #gitops #kubernetes fluxcd.io/blog/2025/02...

Haru patiently waiting for the champagne cork 🍾

Made the switch from the macOS builtin terminal to Ghostty and I love it 👻 The default config is great, the only thing I had to set was window-save-state=always Check it out ghostty.org

I just set up #Flagger for the fist time. It's such a breeze to set up canary deployments this way! Still can’t believe I have never gotten around to play around with it after 4 years of using #FluxCD Thank you @stefanprodan.com and the whole flux community for these cool tools! ❤️

This is SUCH a great talk by @adamhjk.me. Like SO great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhY...

Right now probably thousands of engineer hours are being wasted because GitHub is reporting an x/crypto/ssh vulnerability to a myriad of projects that don't import x/crypto/ssh AT ALL. The vulndb has package and symbol information, and govulncheck is open source. It's 2024.

A Christmas present from Broadcom! Get ready for rate limits if you are freeloading the Bitnami Helm charts and containers from DockerHub 😆 github.com/bitnami/cont...

Kuberentes v1.32 is being released this week and it's an exciting one! 🎉😁 I'm specifically excited about Mutating Admission Policies and pod level resource limits! lwkd.info/2024/20241210 #kubernetes #K8s

In this episode of The Landscape, we interview @stefanprodan.com, a core maintainer of Flux We explore how Flux simplifies continuous delivery for K8s and strengthens supply chain security.

Join us tomorrow at the Service Mesh meetup in London. We're celebrating Flagger's 6th year anniversary 🎉

I am in London today. If anyone here wants to hang out this evening, please give me a message 🤗

The Bitnami Helm charts are now only available as OCI artifacts! I really wish Helm v4 will drop support for the infamous index yaml and signal to everyone else that container registries are the way forward when it comes to charts distribution. blog.bitnami.com/2024/10/bitn...

Super happy to annonce that #FluxCD is now available on the AWS Marketplace. If your organization uses EKS you can now purchase the enterprise edition along with support services from @controlplane.io directly in the AWS portal. control-plane.io/posts/enterp...

Really nice to see Headlamp shipping a #FluxCD plugin. If you were looking for a #Kubernetes & #GitOps UI you need to try this! headlamp.dev/blog/2024/11...

Go Turns 15 go.dev/blog/15years