Flux CD

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The 40 most detailed of 68 comments. Each links to the original.

1. I've used it in the past and personally loved it. Just bumping a yaml file in a git repo to the image tag I wanted deploying was a godsend and nearly automated.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)”

2. after the setup, anytime you push a new image and tag, k8s can automatically update without needing to do anything manual

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)”

3. There's something nice about using git to add a helm repo, a helm release with a few values, then 'git push'.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026”

4. an infra repo for operators using Flux, applying service level yaml from app repos in CI

   Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes”

5. my entire infrastructure is repeatable with just a small git repo of fluxcd stuff

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon”

6. Using GitOps (FluxCD) as deployment strategy enables no dependencies

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”

7. Talos + longhorn + fluxcd (optional), is super nice.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes”

8. Flux is the best thing that ever happened to ops.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026”

9. We use flux for gitops which works really well.

   Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes”

10. HTTP and WebSocket aren't interchangeable choices here: HTTP handles send/API calls, WebSocket handles real-time push delivery.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Show HN: Flux, a tiny protocol that rethinks email from the ground up”

11. SDXL and FLUX models with LoRAs can and do vastly outperform at tons of things singular big models can't or won't do now

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models”

12. We have some really unique Object Identity features in this release as well as new features in most of the controllers.

    Recommends · Oct 2026

13. A lot of people (myself included) use a pipeline that involves using Flux to get the basic action / image correct

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence”

14. I also have Flux / Night Shift installed on all my devices which forces me to take a break from the screens.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Less Coffee, Better Sleep”

15. One possible reason that Flux got much better at handling them is simply that it's a much larger model

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Ask HN: Which breakthroughs fixed AI-generated hands and text?”

16. You can get flux and maybe z-image to do so, but you have to experiment with the promt a bit.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism”

17. LiquidHaskell (or flux or creusot in Rust) would be an improvement over Haskell or Rust too.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “We have proof automation now”

18. Nano Banana or Flux models which faithfully retain input source image geometry and details

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “ChatGPT Images 2.5”

19. Git as the interface to production (agents open PRs instead of running kubectl directly)

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Why GitOps still matters in a world of AI agents (FluxCon) [video]”

20. BFL's baffling licensing structure along with its excessive censorship makes it a noop.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters”

21. Alternatively use K3s and Flux to end up with a solution that checks all of those boxes

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud”

22. FLUX by Black Forrest Labs would disagree there and it is built right in Germany.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Show HN: Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?”

23. The only locally hostable model that ever managed it for me was the original Flux

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “ChatGPT Images 2.0”

24. using them ... is a great experience with gitops tools such as FluxCD or helmfile

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Helm 4.0”

25. Flux also looked surprisingly approachable, but I haven't used it in anger yet.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later”

26. dedicated tools like Quilter, Flux, and others have a very, very long way to go

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards”

27. The bottleneck is interaction. Dashboards get forgotten. Texts get answered.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage”

28. They have a development pace very quick and can verify real world Rust code.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory”

29. post-training on SDXL and Flux have given me good results here in the past

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Nano Banana Pro”

30. Great software and almost always a good signal of a good place to work.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “FluxCD turns 10 today, stats and nostalgia”

31. It worked in a week, I'd been staying up until 3am for most of the year

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Blue light filters don't work”

32. any kind of reconciler, e.g. flux or argo with helm works very well

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Helm 4.0”

33. options like Flux and Qwen which can handle natural language

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “I'm OK being left behind, thanks”

34. At least the FLUX vision models from Europe are pretty good.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4”

35. Had a lot of fun fighting Flux between codebase changes

    Mixed · Mar 2026

36. It's worked well and covered almost all our use cases.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?”

37. you might find Flux valuable for your daily workflow

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “FluxFest Season 1 kick off soon”

38. In my experience, it’s best to bootstrap ArgoCD/flux

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Helm 4.0”

39. I'm starting to use it for my self hosted services.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)”

40. it is easy to bypass if we need to in an emergency

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “OpenGitOps”