Continuous Deployment - Giant Swarm Changes and Releases

flux-app release v1.11.0

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:16:25 +0000

Changed

BREAKING CHANGE: upgrade Flux to 2.7.5 version. Upgrading Flux app to this version requires migration, see upgrade procedure. It can be run in-line by flipping the .migration.run field to true inside values.yaml.

flux-app release v1.10.2

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:54:37 +0000

Changed

Update giantswarm/docker-kubectl image to 1.36.2.

flux-app release v1.10.1

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:08:34 +0000

Changed

Update API version of Flux resources to one considered stable in 2.6.

flux-app release v1.10.0

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:21:03 +0000

Changed

Updgrade Flux to 2.6.4 version.

flux-app release v1.9.1

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:07:28 +0000

Changed

Update Flux metrics.

flux-app release v1.9.0

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:03:00 +0000

Added

Flux own instance of the KSM with partly locked configuration to Flux resources alone.

flux-app release v1.8.2

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:57:20 +0000

Added

Adding back the app.kubernetes.io/version: {{ .Chart.AppVersion | quote }} label.

flux-app release v1.8.1

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:37:08 +0000

Changed

Update Chart.yaml metadata

flux-app release v1.8.0

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:37:36 +0000

Changed

Migrate Chart.yaml annotations to new format as per https://docs.giantswarm.io/reference/platform-api/chart-metadata/
Updgrade Flux to 2.5.1 version.

Fixed

Adding back the app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flux label.

flux-app release v1.7.3

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:36:02 +0000

Removed

Deleting PSP.

flux-app release v1.7.2

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:01:18 +0000

Changed

Support Kyverno PolicyException version v2 when available or when .policyException.enforce is enabled. Fall back to v2beta1 when v2 is not available. If none of the above is available and not enforced, then the PolicyException is not created.

flux-app release v1.7.1

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:28:43 +0000

Changed

Enable VPA by default (Helm value .verticalPodAutoscaler.enabled now defaults to true, was false).

flux-app release v1.5.1

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:02:50 +0000

Changed

Upgrade Flux to 2.2.3 version.

flux-app release v1.7.0

Thu, 08 May 2025 10:20:41 +0000

Changed

Updgrade Flux to 2.4.0 version.

flux-app release v1.6.0

Tue, 06 May 2025 12:29:11 +0000

Changed

Updgrade Flux to 2.3.0 version.

flux-app release v1.5.0

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:00:42 +0000

Updgrade Flux to 2.2.0 version.

flux-app release v1.4.3

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:54:56 +0000

Changed

Update PolicyExceptions to v2beta1.

flux-app release v1.4.2

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:36:05 +0000

Set the location of the notificaton-controller to the namespace it’s currently running in.

flux-app release v1.4.1

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:42:17 +0000

Fixed

Fix resource labelling from giantswarm.io/service_type to giantswarm.io/service-type.

flux-app release v1.4.0

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:43:36 +0000

Changed

Bump generated sources and kustomizations to v1.

flux-app release v1.3.1

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:19:24 +0000

Added

Add pod monitors to controllers. Creation is controlled by the .podMonitors.enabled Helm value with default: true.

Removed

Removed {{ .Release.Name }}-monitoring service that was used in the old monitoring stack.

flux-app release v1.3.0

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:31:51 +0000

Added

Added support for .global.podSecurityStandards.enforced Helm value (defaults to false) to control PSP creation when. When the flag is disabled (default) the PSS is created and the crd-controller ClusterRole is updated with the permission to use the created (flux-app-pvc-psp) PSP. Pre kubernetes v1.25 upgrade and on v1.25 clusters where PSPs are no longer available, this flag should be enabled to skip the creation of the PSP and the update to the CLusterRole.
Added support for .policyException.namespace Helm value to control where Kyverno PolicyException is created, defaults to: giantswarm
Added support for .cilium.enforce Helm value (defaults to false) to force creation of the Cilium network policy in cases when Helm capability checks are not available.
Added support for .policyException.enforce Helm value (defaults to false) to force creation of the Cilium policy in cases when Helm capability checks are not available.

Changed

Refactored chart upgrade process from kustomzie + manual based to be git patch based and made the templates structure better for readability.

Fixed

Fix notification-controller endpoint in kustomize-controller deployment settings to point to the controller in the same namespace.

Removed

Removed app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flux labels from upstream resources
Removed app.kubernetes.io/version: ... labels from upstream resources
Removed app.kubernetes.io/component: ...-controller labels from upstream resources

flux-app release v1.2.0

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:32:55 +0000

Updgrade Flux to 2.1.2 and preare it for Kubernetes 1.25

flux-app release v1.1.1

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:44:00 +0000

Changed

Configure gsoci.azurecr.io as the default container image registry.

flux-app release v1.1.0

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:26:07 +0000

Added

Add Kyverno PolicyException.

flux-app release v1.0.0

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:26:53 +0000

Changed

Update Flux to v2.0.1. Includes breaking changes.

flux-app release v0.24.1

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:30:33 +0000

Fixed

Fixed container securityContext.

flux-app release v0.24.0

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:16:41 +0000

Changed

Updated default securityContext values to comply with PSS policies.

flux-app release v0.23.1

Thu, 04 May 2023 13:59:34 +0000

Added

Added node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane to crd install jobs toleration

gitops-server-app release v0.1.2

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:33:45 +0000

gitops-server-app release v0.1.1

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:13:47 +0000

Added

VerticalPodAutoscaler config for automatically lifting Requests when Pod OOMs

flux-app release v0.23.0

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:11:35 +0000

Added

Added the use the runtime/default seccomp profile.
Added clusterRoles.install value that can disable installing the flux-view and flux-edit cluster roles. Enabled by default to install these resources.

Changed

Use Cilium network policy when available for CRD installer
Updated flux apps to v0.41.2
Changed PSP to allow the same volumes as restricted, to prevent seccomp profile changes breaking pod creation.

Removed

Removed obslete values related to PVCs under: .Values.volumes

gitops-server-app release v0.1.0

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:55:09 +0000

initial Helm Chart and repository configuration.

flux-app release v0.22.0

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:55:38 +0000

Added

Added PriorityClass.
Added CiliumNetworkPolicy.

flux-app release v0.21.2

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:38:07 +0000

Fixed

Fixed condition for internal upgrade.

Changed

Control CPU limits and min allowed CPU + memory requests with VPA as well for flux controllers

flux-app release v0.21.1

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:14:27 +0000

flux-app release v0.21.0

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:56:51 +0000

flux-app release v0.20.2

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:10:52 +0000

Added

Introduce interface for disabling feature gates.

flux-app release v0.20.1

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:51:27 +0000

Fixed quoting of pod template labels

flux-app release v0.20.0

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:27:15 +0000

Added

Add capability to attach custom labels and annotations to kustomize-contoller pod template

Changed

Bump upstream flux toolkit version to from v0.36.0 to v0.37.0.
- The interpretation of the gitImplementation field of GitRepository by source-controller and image-automation-controller has been deprecated, and will effectively always use go-git.
- ImageUpdateAutomation objects with a .spec.PushBranch specified will have the push branch refreshed automatically via force push.
- ImagePolicy CRD dropped version v1alpha1
- ImageRepository CRD dropped version v1alpha1
- ImageUpdateAutomation CRD dropped version v1alpha1
Increased memory limits for CRD install job as it was observed to frequently get OOM killed

flux-app release v0.19.0

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:02:51 +0000

Add capability to annotate the kustomize-controller service account

Added

Chart: Add cluster.domain to configure cluster domain.

flux-app release v0.18.2

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:41:27 +0000

Fixed

Fixed a typo in image-reflector-controller VPA.

flux-app release v0.18.1

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:15:17 +0000

Added

Add verticalPodAutoscaler.force switch.

flux-app release v0.18.0

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:30:36 +0000

Update VPA configuration

flux-app release v0.17.0

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:34:21 +0000

Added

Add a check if VPA capabilities exist in the first place.

Changed

Upgrade ATS to v0.2.9
Bump upstream flux toolkit version to from v0.35.0 to v0.36.0. There are no breaking changes.
Change resource requests & limits.

flux-app release v0.16.1

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:55:50 +0000

Added

Mark the app as subject to two step installation procedure.

flux-app release v0.16.0

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:59:52 +0000

Changed

Bump upstream flux toolkit version to from v0.33.0 to v0.35.0. This upgrade comes with 1 breaking change from Flux v0.34.0, see: fluxcd/flux2#3051.
Change default registry in helm chart to docker.io.

flux-app release v0.15.1

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:42:35 +0000

Changed

Make docs more clear on how to set up encryption

flux-app release v0.15.0

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:03:16 +0000

Changed

Bump upstream flux toolkit version to from v0.31.3 to v0.33.0. This upgrade comes with no breaking changes. Flux now supports distributing Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize overlays and Terraform code as OCI artifacts. For more information please see the [Flux OCI documentation]. More details in [Flux v0.32.0] and [Flux v0.33.0] release notes.

flux-app release v0.14.0

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:49:27 +0000

Added

Add installation note to README.md (also visible in e.g. Happa) about limitations of installing FluxCRDs and CRs at the same time

Changed

Revert to job based CRD installation as of v0.12.0