Flux 1.8.0

This release includes a change to how image registries are scanned for metadata, which should reduce the amount of polling, while being sensitive to image metadata that changes frequently, as well as respecting throttling.

Fixes

• Better chance of a graceful shutdown on signals weaveworks/flux#1438
• Take more notice of possible errors weaveworks/flux#1432 and weaveworks/flux#1433
• Report the problematic string when failing to parse an image ref weaveworks/flux#1407

Improvements

• Apply CustomResourceDefinition manifests ahead of (most) other kinds of resource, since there will likely be other things that depend on the definition (e.g., the custom resources themselves) weaveworks/flux#1429
• Add --git-timeout flag for setting the default timeout for git operations (useful e.g., if you know git clone will take a long time) weaveworks/flux#1416
• fluxctl list-controllers now has an alias fluxctl list-workloads weaveworks/flux#1425
• Adapt the sampling rate for image metadata, and back off when throttled weaveworks/flux#1354
• The detailed rollout status of workloads is now reported in the API (NB this is not yet used in the command-line tool) weaveworks/flux#1380

Thanks

A warm thank-you to @AugustasV, @MansM, @Morriz, @MrYadro, @Timer, @aaron-trout, @bhavin192, @brandon-bethke-neudesic, @brantb, @bzon, @dbluxo, @dholbach, @dlespiau, @endrec, @hiddeco, @justdavid, @justinbarrick, @kozejonaz, @lelenanam, @leoblanc, @marcemq, @marcusolsson, @mellena1, @mt-inside, @ncabatoff, @pcfens, @rade, @rndstr, @sc250024, @sfrique, @skurtzemann, @squaremo, @stefanprodan, @stephenmoloney, @timthelion, @tlvu, @whereismyjetpack, @white-hat, @wstrange for your contributions.

Helm operator 0.3.0

This release adds dependency handling to the Helm operator.

NB The helm operator will now update dependencies for charts by
default, which means you no longer need to vendor them. You can
switch this behaviour off with the flag --update-chart-deps=false.

Bug fixes

• Improve chance of graceful shutdown
  weaveworks/flux#1439
  and
  weaveworks/flux#1438

Improvements

• The operator now runs helm dep build for charts before installing
  or upgrading releases. This will use a lockfile if present, and
  update the dependencies according to requirements.yaml otherwise
  weaveworks/flux#1450
• A new flag --git-timeout controls how long the Helm operator will
  allow for git operations
  weaveworks/flux#1416
• The Helm operator image now includes the Helm command-line client,
  which makes it easier to troubleshoot problems using kubectl exec
  (as part of
  weaveworks/flux#1450)

Many thanks to everyone who contributed!

Flux 1.7.1

This is a patch release, mainly to include the fix for initContainer
images (#1372).

Fixes

• Include initContainers when scanning for images to fetch metadata
  for, e..g, so there will be "available image" rows for the
  initContainer in fluxctl list-images
  weaveworks/flux#1372
• Turn memcached's logging verbosity down, in the example deployment
  YAMLs weaveworks/flux#1369
• Remove mention of an archaic fluxctl command from help text
  weaveworks/flux#1389

Thanks

Thanks for fixes go to @alanjcastonguay, @dholbach, and @squaremo.

Flux 1.7.0

This release has a soupçon of bug fixes. It gets a minor version bump, because it introduces a new flag, --listen-metrics.

Fixes

• Updates to workloads using initContainers can now succeed weaveworks/flux#1351
• Port forwarding to GCP (and possibly others) works as intended weaveworks/flux#1334
• No longer falls over if the directory given as --git-path doesn't exist weaveworks/flux#1341
• fluxctl doesn't try to connect to the cluster when just reporting its version weaveworks/flux#1332
• Metadata for unusable images (e.g., those for the wrong architecture) are now correctly recorded, so that they don't get fetched continually weaveworks/flux#1304

Improvements

• Prometheus metrics can be exposed on a port different from that of the flux API, using the flag --listen-metrics weaveworks/flux#1325

Thanks

Thank you to the following for contributions (along with anyone I've missed): @ariefrahmansyah, @brantb, @casibbald, @davidkarlsen, @dholbach, @hiddeco, @justinbarrick, @kozejonaz, @lelenanam, @petervandenabeele, @rade, @rndstr, @squaremo, @stefanprodan, @the-fine.

Helm operator 0.2.1

This is a patch release that allows helm-op to recover from a failed release install. If a chart is broken, Tiller will reserve the name and mark the release as failed. If at a later time the chart is fixed, helm-op can't install it anymore because the release name is in use. Purging the release after each failed install allows helm-op to keep retrying the install.

• Purge release if install fails weaveworks/flux#1344

Flux 1.6.0

This release improves existing features, and has some new goodies like
regexp tag filtering and multiple sync paths. Have fun!

We also have a new contributing guide.

Fixes

• Update example manifests to Kubernetes 1.9+ API versions
  weaveworks/flux#1322
• Operate with more restricted RBAC permissions
  weaveworks/flux#1298
• Verify baked-in host keys (against known good fingerprints) during
  build
  weaveworks/flux#1283
• Support authentication for GKE, AWS, etc., when fluxctl does
  automatic port forwarding
  weaveworks/flux#1284
• Respect tag filters in fluxctl release ..., unless --force is
  given
  weaveworks/flux#1270

Improvements

• Cope with ':' characters in resource names
  weaveworks/flux#1282
• Accept multiple --git-path arguments; sync (and update) files in
  all the paths given
  weaveworks/flux#1297
• Use image pull secrets attached to service accounts, as well as
  those attached to workloads themselves
  weaveworks/flux#1291
• You can now filter images using regular expressions (in addition to
  semantic version ranges, and glob patterns)
  weaveworks/flux#1292

Thanks

Thank you to the following for contributions: @Alien2150,
@ariefrahmansyah, @brandon-bethke-neudesic, @bzon, @dholbach,
@dkerwin, @hartmut-pq, @hiddeco, @justinbarrick, @petervandenabeele,
@nicolerenee, @rndstr, @squaremo, @stefanprodan, @stephenmoloney.

Helm operator 0.2.0

In large part this release simplifies and improves the Helm operator
machinery, without changing its effect.

This release drops the -alpha suffix, but remains <1.0 and should
(still) be considered unready for production use.

• Use the same git implementation as fluxd, fixing a number of
  problems with SSH known_hosts and git URLs and so on
  weaveworks/flux#1240
• Always check that a chart release will be a change, before releasing
  weaveworks/flux#1254
• Add validation to the FluxHelmRelease custom resource definition,
  giving the kind the short name fhr
  weaveworks/flux#1253
• Detect chart release differences more reliably
  weaveworks/flux#1272
• Check for more recent versions and report in logs when out of date
  weaveworks/flux#1276

See getting started with
Helm
and the Helm chart
instructions
for information on installing the Flux with the Helm operator.

Flux 1.5.0

This release adds semver image filters, makes it easier to use
fluxctl securely, and has an experimental interactive mode for
fluxctl release. It also fixes some long-standing problems with
image metadata DB, including no longer being bamboozled by Windows
images.

Fixes

• Read the fallback image credentials every time, so they can be
  updated. This makes it feasible to mount them from a ConfigMap, or
  update them with a sidecar
  weaveworks/flux#1230
• Take some measures to prevent spurious image updates caused by bugs
  in image metadata fetching:
  • Sort images with zero timestamps correctly
    weaveworks/flux#1247
  • Skip any updates where there's suspicious-looking image metadata
    weaveworks/flux#1249
    (then weaveworks/flux#1250)
  • Fix the bug that resulted in zero timestamps in the first place
    weaveworks/flux#1251
• Respect 'false' value for automation annotation
  weaveworks/flux#1264
• Cope with images that have a Windows (or other) flavour, by omitting
  the unsupported image rather than failing entirely
  weaveworks/flux#1265

Improvements

• fluxctl will now transparently port-forward to the Flux pod,
  making it easier to connect securely to the Flux API
  weaveworks/flux#1212
• fluxctl release gained an experimental flag --interactive that
  lets you toggle each image update on or off, then apply exactly the
  updates you have chosen
  weaveworks/flux#1231
• Flux can now report and update initContainers, and a wider variety
  of Helm charts (as used in FluxHelmRelease resources)
  weaveworks/flux#1258
• You can use semver (Semantic Versioning) filters
  for automation, rather than having to rely on glob patterns
  weaveworks/flux#1266

Thanks

Thanks to @ariefrahmansyah, @chy168, @cliveseldon, @davidkarlsen,
@dholbach, @errordeveloper, @geofflamrock, @grantbachman, @grimesjm,
@hiddeco, @jlewi, @JoeyX-u, @justinbarrick, @konfiot, @malvex,
@marccampbell, @marctc, @mt-inside, @mwhittington21, @ncabatoff,
@rade, @rndstr, @squaremo, @srikantheee84, @stefanprodan,
@stephenmoloney, @thejaysmith (and anyone I've missed!) for their
contributions.

Helm operator release 0.1.1-alpha

This patch release bundles a number of contributed fixes, to make the Helm operator work in a broader variety of circumstances (i.e., not just as a demo). The Helm operator is still considered "alpha".

• Support using TLS connections to Tiller
  weaveworks/flux#1200
• Avoid continual, spurious installs in newer Kubernetes
  weaveworks/flux#1193
• Make it easier to override SSH config (and known_hosts)
  weaveworks/flux#1188
• Annotate resources created by a Helm release with the name of the
  FluxHelmRelease custom resource, so they can be linked
  weaveworks/flux#1134
• Purge release when FluxHelmRelease is deleted, so restoring the
  resource can succeed
  weaveworks/flux#1106
• Correct permissions on baked-in SSH config
  weaveworks/flux#1098
• Test coverage for releasesync package
  weaveworks/flux#1089).

It is now possible to install Flux and the Helm operator using the helm chart in this
repository.

Flux release 1.4.2

This release includes a number of usability improvements, the majority
of which were suggested or contributed by community members. Thanks
everyone!

Fixes

• Don't output fluxd usage text twice
  weaveworks/flux#1183
• Allow dots in resource IDs; e.g., default:deployment/foo.db, which
  is closer to what Kubernetes allows
  weaveworks/flux#1197
• Log more about why git mirroring fails
  weaveworks/flux#1171

Improvements

• Interpret FluxHelmRelease resources that specify multiple images to
  use in a chart
  weaveworks/flux#1175
  (and several PRs that can be tracked down from there)
• Add an experimental flag for restricting the view fluxd has of the
  cluster, reducing Kubernetes API usage: --k8s-namespace-whitelist
  weaveworks/flux#1184
• Share more image layers between quay.io/weaveworks/flux and
  quay.io/weaveworks/helm-operator images
  weaveworks/flux#1192
• Apply resources in "dependency order" so that e.g., namespaces are
  created before things in the namespaces
  weaveworks/flux#1117