Leigh Capili 🧋

@capileigh.bsky.social

Flux, Kubernetes, Skate, Snow 🏂

Morgan Stanley scaled Flux to 500+ clusters, 100k+ containers, and 10k+ Flux resources. Their 5-year journey covers: multi-tenancy, performance tuning, moving to S3 sources, and devX fluxcd.io/blog/2026/03/stairway-to-gitops-morgan-stanley/ FluxCon Europe is next Monday - come say hi! #kubecon

Stairway to GitOps: Scaling Flux at Morgan Stanley

Reflecting on Morgan Stanley's journey to production GitOps with Flux, presented at FluxCon NA 2025.

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The Voith-Schneider Propeller is a vertical-axis marine drive whose spinning blades change pitch continuously, letting a ship generate instant thrust in any direction, like a helicopter rotor underwater. Super-maneuverable, perfect for tugs and ferries.

‼️Helm v4.0.0 is now officially live! github.com/helm/helm/re... ‼️ New updates include: 🎉 plugin system that supports WASM based plugins 🎉 Server side apply support 🎉 & LOTS more Go check it out! & if you’re around at #KubeCon, come chat about it at the Helm booth!

Release Helm v4.0.0 · helm/helm

The Helm Team is proud to announce the first stable release of Helm 4. New Features Helm 4 has numerous new features, but a few deserve highlighting here: Redesigned plugin system that supports We...

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I'm not big on awards, but I hope it can inspire other OSS contributors to do the (much needed) work. Learn, be available, write docs, question the process(es), write code, whatever makes the project move one step forward, no matter how small. Be consistent but take breaks if needed. That's all 🫡

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It's Spooky Season 🦉🦇 API Removals 🐦‍⬛🥀 😦 ☠️🦴 Storage Version Skew ⛓️🌩️ 🙈 🏚️👻 Stale managedFields!! 🤖🧟 🙀😱 This is your PSA to run `flux migrate` on your clusters and repos before upgrading to Flux 2.7.x

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

Re: kyaml, the flux-operator ResourceSet API will probably look pretty bad. The Multi-line strings look tough to template since the start, first, middle, and end lines are all different... Helm users will definitely need some helper functions if this format catches on for chart development.

Leigh Capili 🧋@capileigh.bsky.social · last yr.

KEP PR with discussion, iterations, promotors, and detractors is here github.com/kubernetes/e... General quoting/escaping & Multi-line strings are big tradeoffs "Imagine a KYAML formatted scalar that itself is a KYAML formatted multiline scalar containing code with double-quotes and backslashes."