Intro to Gitops & Flux with Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 14/10/2022

This talk gives you an Intro to GitOps & Flux for beginners + the latest Flux updates for existing users. Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi, Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks will show you the technical and business benefits of GitOps - Why people are so excited about it! - and how easy it is to bootstrap Flux to a Kubernetes cluster and deploy a sample application in a GitOps manner at a click of a button. 

Pinky will also give an overview of exciting recent developments: Flux OCI support and what it means for you in terms of increased security and scalability, Flux + Terraform, Flux + VS Code, and Flux + Argo (Flamingo).
This is part of a new bitesize series “Flux in Short '' to help developers learn quick and easy tools to improve their experience.
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We will be covering:
→ Intro to Gitops & Flux
→ How to bootstrap Flux on a Kubernetes Cluster
→ How to deploy a sample application using Flux, and customised application configuration through Kustomize patches.
→ An overview of new things that you can do with Flux

Resources:
⭐️ Flux - the GitOps family of projects: fluxcd.io
⭐️ Get Started with Flux Guide: https://fluxcd.io/docs/get-started/
⭐️ Flux GitHub Repo: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
⭐️ Flux on CNCF Slack: https://cloud-native.slack.com/messages/flux
(or get an invite here: https://slack.cncf.io/)

Speaker Bio: Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks. She has worked on a multitude of topics including front end development, UI automation for testing and API development. Previously she was a software developer at State Farm where she was on the delivery engineering team working on GitOps enablement. She was instrumental in the multi-tenancy migration to utilize Flux for an internal Kubernetes offering. Outside of work, Priyanka enjoys hanging out with her husband and two rescue dogs as well as traveling around the globe.