Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane

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Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 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 Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane Flux has always shipped Grafana dashboards for metrics and alerting, but interactive troubleshooting has meant reaching for the Flux CLI to figure out why a HelmRelease is stuck or trace the dependencies of a Kustomization. That's changing. This talk introduces the new lightweight UI built into Flux Operator, featuring SSO authentication, Kubernetes impersonation, and a mobile-friendly design, while exploring the broader landscape including Capacitor, Headlamp, Backstage, and Freelens plugins. We'll evaluate each project's security model, Flux API compatibility and user experience to help platform teams choose the right visualization layer for their GitOps stack.