GitOps with Flux: From Bootstrap to Multi-Cluster

Flux is one of the most powerful GitOps engines in the CNCF ecosystem, and mastering it unlocks fully automated, declarative operations for any Kubernetes fleet. This 120-minute workshop takes you from zero to multi-cluster GitOps using real-world patterns and hands-on exercises. We’ll start by bootstrapping Flux into a fresh cluster, structuring repositories, and deploying applications with Kustomize and Helm. Then we’ll move into advanced workflows: image automation, drift detection, health checks, secret management, and progressive delivery. Finally, we’ll scale the setup to multiple clusters, demonstrating how to manage environments, handle divergence, and coordinate shared platform components through Git alone.

Participants will leave with a complete end-to-end GitOps setup they can reproduce at work, along with practical skills to operate clusters confidently in a declarative, auditable, and automated way—powered by Flux.