v0.31.0

Highlights

Flux v0.31.0 comes with new features and improvements. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

Breaking changes

Flux is no longer compatible with kubeconfigs using client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1, this version was deprecated and removed in Kubernetes 1.24. Please follow these instructions on how to update kubeconfig to client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1.

New features

• Pull Helm charts from container registries by configuring Helm repositories with type: oci.
  For more information please see the Helm OCI documentation.
• Trigger GitHub Actions workflows from Flux by configuring alerting providers with type: githubdispatch.
  For more information please see the GitHub dispatch provider documentation.

New guides

• Promote Flux Helm Releases with GitHub Actions.
• Using Flux on GKE with Google Cloud Source Repositories.
• Monitoring Flux logs with Loki and Grafana.

New improvements and fixes

• Starting with this version, all Flux controllers conform to the Kubernetes API Priority and Fairness.
• Add support for configuring the authentication to AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault and Google Cloud KMS on multi-tenant clusters.
• The Git reconciliation has been made more efficient by adding support for no-op clones that should reduce the outbound traffic substantially.
• The libgit2 managed transport feature has been enabled by default to improve the Azure DevOps and AWS CodeCommit Git operations.
• Fix an issue where the token used for Helm operations would go stale if it was provided using a Bound Service Account Token Volume.
• Update the controllers and CLI dependencies to Kubernetes v1.24, Kustomize v4.5.5 and Helm v3.9.0.

Components changelog

• source-controller v0.25.0 v0.25.1 v0.25.3
• kustomize-controller v0.26.0
• helm-controller v0.22.0
• notification-controller v0.24.0
• image-reflector-controller v0.19.0
• image-automation-controller v0.23.0

CLI Changelog

• PR #2809 - @fluxcdbot - Update source-controller to v0.25.3
• PR #2807 - @stefanprodan - Update dependencies
• PR #2806 - @stefanprodan - monitoring: Add Grafana Loki HR and Flux logs dashboard
• PR #2802 - @stefanprodan - Add --kubeconfig-secret-ref to flux create ks|hr
• PR #2801 - @stefanprodan - e2e: Update ARM64 runners to Kubernetes 1.24
• PR #2796 - @fluxcdbot - Update toolkit components
• PR #2792 - @somtochiama - Handle multi-doc yaml for flux build
• PR #2787 - @vipulnewaskar7 - Add --allow-insecure-http to bootstrap git
• PR #2782 - @stefanprodan - Refactor Flux Prometheus monitoring stack
• PR #2781 - @makkes - Add OCI support to create source helm
• PR #2778 - @stefanprodan - Update go-git-providers to v0.6.0
• PR #2775 - @fluxcdbot - Update toolkit components
• PR #2773 - @stefanprodan - Update dependencies
• PR #2769 - @stefanprodan - Update Go to 1.18 in CI
• PR #2767 - @takirala - Add --ignore-paths flag to flux create source (git|bucket)
• PR #2764 - @hiddeco - Ensure proper FS root is set while bootstrapping
• PR #2748 - @makkes - fix e2e tests
• PR #2747 - @dholbach - Move MAINTAINERS to f/community
• PR #2727 - @cr1cr1 - grafana: display exported ns, slight resizing, default sorting by state