The Making of Flux: The Rewrite, a KubeFM Original Series
Update: 2025-10-06
Description
In this episode, Michael Bridgen (the engineer who wrote Flux's first lines) and Stefan Prodan (the maintainer who led the V2 rewrite) share how Flux grew from a fragile hack-day script into a production-grade GitOps toolkit.
How early Flux addressed the risks of manual, unsafe Kubernetes upgrades
Why the complete V2 rewrite was critical for stability, scalability, and adoption
What the maintainers learned about building a sustainable, community-driven open-source project
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