Flux - The GitLess GitOps Edition - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Dipti Pai, Microsoft

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Don't miss out! Join us at our next Flagship Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23-26 March, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Flux - The GitLess GitOps Edition - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Dipti Pai, Microsoft In this session, Dipti and Stefan will talk about the evolution of Flux CD towards a GitLess GitOps model. They will start with a brief history of the Open Container Initiative (OCI), highlighting the key milestones that led to the development of OCI Artifacts as a standard in the Flux project. Stefan will do a deep dive into Flux OCI features and will share success stories from Flux users who have adopted the GitLess GitOps model. Dipti will talk about the latest developments around OIDC-based authentication & provenance verification, and how it enabled Flux users to achieve better security and compliance. Finally, they will discuss the roadmap for Flux and how the community can contribute to the project's success.