Helm Users! What Can Flux v2 Do For You

author : @yebyen and @r6by

date : 2021-05-05

allotted-time : 35m

start-time : 2021-05-05T13:10:00+02:00

end-time : 2021-05-05T13:45:00+02:00

Outline

Talk about Flux + Helm Controller
Flux CRDs - HelmRelease, Kustomization, (...)
Demo During Slides (Narrow Expand)

DEMO

Blog on Kubernetes

Live Activity

flux bootstrap
Kyverno
Webhook Receiver
Wordpress

DEMO

(just kidding - more)

Live Activity

Jenkins
Okteto Terminal
Linkerd2
Flagger

`flux bootstrap`

We will install all controllers

source controller
kustomize controller
helm controller

`flux bootstrap`

We will install all controllers

notification controller
(image-automation)
(image-reflector)

kyverno

Requirement to make Flux secure for multi-tenancy

(Keep Kubernetes safe from Wordpress)

fluxcd/flux2-multi-tenancy

Follow this carefully!

webhook

Receiver config allows Flux to sync instantly on git push

flux-system-receiver.yaml webhook-lb.yaml

webhook-receivers guide

Wordpress

Another application installed via Helm

bitnami/wordpress

Jenkins

Another application installed via Helm

jenkinsci/helm-charts

Terminal

Another application installed via Helm

okteto/terminal

Linkerd2

Not just another application

(Yes, Linkerd2 does provide Helm charts, but we don't install that way, we used arkade and linkerd2 cli)

linkerd getting started

arkade install linkerd

Flagger

Progressive Delivery with Flux and Flagger

Another project in the FluxCD umbrella

Depends on Linkerd2 (option Istio, AWS App Mesh, nginx...)

Flux2 Kustomize Helm

fluxcd/flux2-kustomize-helm-example

Example how to manage multiple clusters

(eg. staging, production)

So Much More