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Flux at KubeCon EU 2026
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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.
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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.
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+When: Monday, March 23, 2026 - 09:00 - 12:45 CET
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+Where: Elicium 1, RAI Amsterdam
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+ View the Full FluxCon Schedule
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+FluxCon Sessions
+A full morning of Flux talks featuring production stories from Air France–KLM, NatWest, Orange, and our maintainers.
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FluxCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks
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Tiffany Wang, Morgan Stanley & Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 09:00 - 09:05 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Vibe Coding Meets GitOps
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Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 09:10 - 09:35 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Air France–KLM's GitOps Takeoff: Real Stories From the Flight Deck
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Alaoui Echerif Amine & Ravi Ramrattan, Air France KLM
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 09:40 - 10:05 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Agentic GitOps: Evolving Enterprise Delivery
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Andy Martin, ControlPlane
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 10:10 - 10:15 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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May the Flux Be With You: Tales From the GitOps Trenches at NatWest
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Joel King & Lee Coupe, NatWest Group
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 10:20 - 10:45 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Towards Better Canary Releases With Flagger and Gateway API
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Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 11:00 - 11:25 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Talking to Your Cluster: Conversational GitOps with Flux MCP
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William Rizzo, Mirantis
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 11:30 - 11:55 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Flux-Powered Bootstrapping a Kubernetes With GitOps and CaC
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Paris Nakita Kejser, Astrona
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 12:00 - 12:10 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Sylva, Taming Complexity With FluxCD Dependency Management
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Thomas Morin & Francois Eleouet, Orange
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 12:15 - 12:40 CET
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+ Elicium 1
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Flux at KyvernoCon
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Flux and Kyverno together - attend this cross-project session in the afternoon:
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Policy & GitOps Unite! Kyverno and Flux Save Cluster City
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Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata & Leigh Capili, ControlPlane
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 13:35 - 14:00 CET
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Visit the Flux Project Booth
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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.
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Booth 5B, Project Pavilion
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+Flux Operator MCP Server
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+AI Assisted GitOps.
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+The Project Pavilion is located in the Solutions Showcase. We're near the center :)
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Flux at KubeCon
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Catch these Flux sessions during the main conference:
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⚡ Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - Gitops For All Sizes
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Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer
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+ Mon, Mar 23 • 14:15 - 14:20 CET
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+ Elicium 2
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From "No Time for GitOps" to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human Way
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Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei, Tchibo GmbH
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+ Wed, Mar 25 • 11:45 - 12:15 CET
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+ Hall 7 | Room B
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Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back
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Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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+ Wed, Mar 25 • 15:00 - 15:30 CET
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+ Hall 8 | Room G
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From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks
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Luiz Ariza, Beanters
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+ Thurs, Mar 26 • 11:00 - 11:30 CET
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+ Hall 7 | Room C
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Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem
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Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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+ Thurs, Mar 26 • 13:45 - 14:15 CET
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+ Elicium 2
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Announcing Flux 2.8 GA
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We're thrilled to announce the Flux 2.8 General Availability release. This is a major milestone, bringing Helm v4 support natively to Flux.
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+ - 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
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Read the full 2.8 Release Announcement
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Flux 2.8.x Upgrade Instructions Releases of Flux 2.7+ and up remove old API versions. To ensure a smooth upgrade, please follow the detailed instructions before updating your clusters.
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+ Upgrade instructions & Support here
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Flux Resources
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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.
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Flux is a CNCF graduated project and is General Availability.
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Ecosystem
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Flux has a rich ecosystem of extensions and compatible, open software.
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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.
+Flux friends! We had such a great time seeing you in Amsterdam. Here's what went down with all things Flux and GitOps at KubeCon Europe 2026.
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- View the Full FluxCon Schedule
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+ Watch the talks from FluxCon
-FluxCon Sessions
-A full morning of Flux talks featuring production stories from Air France–KLM, NatWest, Orange, and our maintainers.
+A full morning of Flux talks featured production stories from Air France-KLM, NatWest, Orange, and our maintainers.
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FluxCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks
Tiffany Wang, Morgan Stanley & Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 09:00 - 09:05 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
Air France–KLM's GitOps Takeoff: Real Stories From the Flight Deck
Alaoui Echerif Amine & Ravi Ramrattan, Air France KLM
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 09:40 - 10:05 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
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Agentic GitOps: Evolving Enterprise Delivery
Andy Martin, ControlPlane
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 10:10 - 10:15 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
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May the Flux Be With You: Tales From the GitOps Trenches at NatWest
Joel King & Lee Coupe, NatWest Group
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 10:20 - 10:45 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
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Towards Better Canary Releases With Flagger and Gateway API
Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 11:00 - 11:25 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
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Talking to Your Cluster: Conversational GitOps with Flux MCP
William Rizzo, Mirantis
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 11:30 - 11:55 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Flux-Powered Bootstrapping a Kubernetes With GitOps and CaC
Paris Nakita Kejser, Astrona
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 12:00 - 12:10 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
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Sylva, Taming Complexity With FluxCD Dependency Management
Thomas Morin & Francois Eleouet, Orange
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 12:15 - 12:40 CET
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- Elicium 1
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- View on Sched
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+ ▶ YouTube
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Flux at KyvernoCon
-Flux and Kyverno together - attend this cross-project session in the afternoon:
+Flux and Kyverno come together in this cross-project session:
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Policy & GitOps Unite! Kyverno and Flux Save Cluster City
Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata & Leigh Capili, ControlPlane
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 13:35 - 14:00 CET
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- E106-108
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View on Sched
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Visit the Flux Project Booth
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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.
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Booth 5B, Project Pavilion
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The Flux Project Booth
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Had questions? Wanted to talk GitOps? Or just wanted to grab some stickers? The Flux maintainers were there! Stefan was also at the booth for extended Q&A after each session.
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-We'll be using
+We used
Flux Operator MCP Server
to show off
AI Assisted GitOps.
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-The Project Pavilion is located in the Solutions Showcase. We're near the center :)
+We also launched [fluxcd/agent-skills](https://github.com/fluxcd/agent-skills), to help you work with your repos and clusters more effectively within Claude Code, Copilot, Kiro, and more.
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Flux at KubeCon
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Catch these Flux sessions during the main conference:
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Flux sessions from the main conference:
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⚡ Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - Gitops For All Sizes
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Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer
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- Mon, Mar 23 • 14:15 - 14:20 CET
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- Elicium 2
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⚡ Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - GitOps For All Sizes
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Matheus Pimenta, Core Maintainer
View on Sched
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From "No Time for GitOps" to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human Way
Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei, Tchibo GmbH
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- Wed, Mar 25 • 11:45 - 12:15 CET
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- Hall 7 | Room B
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View on Sched
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Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back
Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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- Wed, Mar 25 • 15:00 - 15:30 CET
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- Hall 8 | Room G
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View on Sched
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From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks
Luiz Ariza, Beanters
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- Thurs, Mar 26 • 11:00 - 11:30 CET
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- Hall 7 | Room C
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View on Sched
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Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem
Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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- Thurs, Mar 26 • 13:45 - 14:15 CET
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- Elicium 2
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View on Sched
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