Flux, an open-source GitOps operator developed by Weaveworks Inc., makes managing deployments and Kubernetes even simpler.

From its inception, Flux has seen a great deal of adoption in cloud infrastructure vendors, including Amazon, VMware and Microsoft, and recently the Department of Defense. On October 20, GitOps Days was held, with several different companies coming on stage to praise Flux and share their stories of success.

“When you want to make a change to your cluster or your application, you push it to Git; the automation takes over from there and makes developers and platform engineers’ jobs a lot easier,” said Kingdon Barrett (pictured), open-source support engineer at Weaveworks. “It makes it easier for them to collaborate.”

Barrett spoke with Lisa Martin and David Nicholson, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event. They discussed Flux’s evolution through the years, the GitOps Days ecosystem event and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Building on the cloud

Flux has an application programming interface under it called the GitOps Toolkit. For those looking to build a platform on the cloud, this API ensures that the platform is safe and officially stable., Barrett explained.

“We’ve also added a recent improvement called Server-Side Apply that will improve performance, reduce the number of API calls, but also for users, it makes things a lot easier because they don’t have to write explicitly health checks on everything,” he said.

Flux is also built for security first, according to Barrett.

“There are a lot of products out there that will shell out to other tools and that’s a potential vulnerability, and Flux does not do that,” he said. “You’re able to verify that the commits that you’re applying to your cluster are signed and actually come from a valid author.”

Flux is also working on growing its number of integrations significantly, along with plans to make Flux more compatible with tools found in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation umbrella.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. (* Disclosure: Cloud Native Computing Foundation sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither CNCF nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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