(Part 1) The Power of GitOps with Flux v2 & GitOps Toolkit with Leigh Capili
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 20/10/2020

Don't miss the next talk in the series! Register at GitOps Community meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Weave-User-Group/events/273951752/

Watch Part 2: Recorded November 2: https://youtu.be/fC2YCxQRUwU

New to GitOps or been a long-time Flux user?

We'll walk you through the benefits of GitOps and then demo it in action with a sneak peak into the next gen Flux and GitOps Toolkit!

* Automation!
* Observability!
* Reconciliation!
* Powerful use of Prometheus and Grafana!
* GitOps for Helm!

For Flux users, Flux v1 is decoupled into Flux v2 and GitOps Toolkit. We'll demo how this decoupling gives you more control over how you can do GitOps and with fewer steps!

In this video (part 1 of a multi-part series) Leigh Capili shows you GitOps in action with Flux and GitOps Toolkit.  (***Please note at 34:45 there was an internet outage and Leigh was inadvertently dropped from the video, thus there's ~1 minute where things are a little discombobulated. Thanks for your understanding.***)

Note to our Flux community that Flux v2 and the GitOps Toolkit is in development and Flux v1 is in maintenance mode. These talks and upcoming guides will give you the most up-to-date info and steps to migrate once we reach feature parity and start the migration process. We are dedicated to the smoothest experience possible for our Flux community, so please join us if you'd like early access and to give us feedback for the migration process.

We are really excited by the improvements and want to take this opportunity to show you what the GitOps Toolkit is all about, walk you through the guides and get your feedback!

For more info, see https://toolkit.fluxcd.io/.

Here's our latest blog post on Flux v2 and GitOps Toolkit updates: https://www.weave.works/blog/the-road-to-flux-v2-october-update
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Speaker: Leigh Capili, Developer Experience Engineer, Weaveworks
Bio: Leigh is a Kubernetes Contributor and works in Developer Experience with Weaveworks. ☸️
He authored kubeadm's etcd mTLS implementation and is currently working toward k8s component standards and cluster addons.

Previously, he's designed functional state-stores for data-centers, built platforms, and worked to change the way the world experiences music at places like DIRECTV, AT&T, and Beatport.

Leigh is mostly concerned about helping people.

He has spoken previously at KubeCon, DockerCon, PuppetConf, and DevOpsDays Rockies and has a heart for building community and sowing into others.
Leigh lives with his future wife, enjoys snowboarding, and has a 60lb dog named Pepsi. 🐶

Host: Tamao Nakahara, Head of Developer Experience, Weaveworks
Bio: Tamao is passionate about Developer Experience and co-organizes devxcon.com. She has over 20 years of DevEx, ecosystem alliances, and event experience, including as Director of Developer Relations at New Relic, running open source community programs at VMware and Pivotal for Cloud Foundry, Spring, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, and Redis, and helping customers with Oracle virtualization at VMware.