Flux CD
To help developers and operators manage their infrastructure and applications using GitOps and cloud-native automation.
At a Glance
- Enterprise IT
- Financial Services
- Telecommunications
- Software and Tech
AI Tools by Flux CD
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Flux CD Agent Skills
GitOps Skills for AI Coding Agents
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Latest News
Bootstrapping Flux with Terraform: Best practices for infrastructure automation
Stairway to GitOps: Scaling Flux at Morgan Stanley to thousands of clusters
Weaveworks, the company behind Flux CD, shuts down its doors
Flux maintainers move to ControlPlane to ensure project longevity
Products & Services
Open-source continuous delivery and GitOps tool for Kubernetes.
Enterprise-grade GitOps platform with advanced policy management and multi-cluster support.
SaaS platform for managing Kubernetes clusters and application deployments.
Market Position
Flux CD is positioned as the native GitOps choice for Kubernetes platform engineers, emphasizing a programmatic, API-driven approach compared to the more GUI-centric Argo CD. It is deeply integrated into major cloud platforms like AWS EKS and Azure AKS.
Leadership
Founders
Alexis Richardson
Co-founder of RabbitMQ (acquired by VMware); former CEO of RabbitMQ; former Chairman of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC).
Matthias Radestock
Co-founder of RabbitMQ; key architect of RabbitMQ and Weave Net.
Executive Team
Alexis Richardson
CEO & Co-Founder
Former CEO of RabbitMQ; prominent leader in the CNCF community.
Steve George
COO
Former executive at Canonical (Ubuntu) with extensive experience in open-source business operations.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founded by the creators of RabbitMQ, Weaveworks aimed to solve the complexity of managing containerized applications on Kubernetes. This led to the creation of Flux and the development of the 'GitOps' methodology, which uses Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and applications.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open Core model. Revenue generated through enterprise subscriptions for Weave GitOps (support, advanced features, and management GUI) and consulting services.
Pricing Tiers
Full Flux CD functionality under Apache 2.0 license.
Includes 24/7 support, advanced security features, and GUI management.
Target Markets
- Enterprise IT
- Financial Services
- Telecommunications
- Software and Tech
- Continuous Delivery (CD) for Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management
- Automating application updates across multiple environments
- Disaster recovery and cluster state synchronization
- Morgan Stanley
- State Farm
- Deutsche Telekom
- Gap