A general purpose UI for FluxCD.
Capacitor requires Flux v2.0.0.
Deploy the latest Capacitor release in the flux-system
namespace
by adding the following manifests to your Flux repository:
---
apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2
kind: OCIRepository
metadata:
name: capacitor
namespace: flux-system
spec:
interval: 12h
url: oci://ghcr.io/gimlet-io/capacitor-manifests
ref:
semver: ">=0.1.0"
---
apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
name: capacitor
namespace: flux-system
spec:
targetNamespace: flux-system
interval: 1h
retryInterval: 2m
timeout: 5m
wait: true
prune: true
path: "./"
sourceRef:
kind: OCIRepository
name: capacitor
Note that Flux will check for Capacitor releases every 12 hours and will automatically deploy the new version if it is available.
Access Capacitor UI with port-forwarding:
kubectl -n flux-system port-forward svc/capacitor 9000:9000
This feature requires Flux v2.2.0.
---
apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2
kind: OCIRepository
metadata:
name: capacitor
namespace: flux-system
spec:
interval: 12h
url: oci://ghcr.io/gimlet-io/capacitor-manifests
ref:
semver: ">=0.1.0"
+ verify:
+ provider: cosign
+ matchOIDCIdentity:
+ - issuer: "https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com"
+ subject: "^https://github.com/gimlet-io/capacitor.*$"
---
apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
name: capacitor
namespace: flux-system
spec:
targetNamespace: flux-system
interval: 1h
retryInterval: 2m
timeout: 5m
wait: true
prune: true
path: "./"
sourceRef:
kind: OCIRepository
name: capacitor
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gimlet-io/capacitor/main/deploy/k8s/rbac.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gimlet-io/capacitor/main/deploy/k8s/manifest.yaml
kubectl port-forward svc/capacitor -n flux-system 9000:9000
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gimlet-io/capacitor/main/deploy/k8s/rbac.yaml
helm repo add onechart https://chart.onechart.dev
helm upgrade -i capacitor -n flux-system onechart/onechart -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gimlet-io/capacitor/main/deploy/helm/onechart-helm-values.yaml
kubectl port-forward svc/capacitor -n flux-system 9000:9000
FluxCD is an amazing backend for all things gitops.
It is a shame that ArgoCD gained so much traction mostly because developers appreciate the UI. Rolling out a read-only ArgoCD UI made Argo the de-facto kubernetes dashboard, where people look at logs and various kubernetes resources.
Capacitor's goal is to level the field: providing a UI option for Flux users that matches or exceeds the level of ArgoCD.
The vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaDRRDvsRAs
Capacitor is built currently by Gimlet.io founder Laszlo Fogas on live streams:
- 1730CET, 16th October - Capacitor launch, Flux CRD backend
- 1700CET, 20th October - Rudimentary data model, bundling a React frontend
- 1730CET, 23rd October - Rendering Flux state
- 1700CET, 6th November - Product vision, Rendering Kustomizations, React event handlers
- 1700CET, 12th January - Where are we with Capacitor? Launch plans
- 6th February - OCIRepository support
Capacitor wants to be more than a tool that displays Flux's CRDs in tables. Capacitor wants to provide contextualized information for developers to best operate their applications.
- DONE: Flux CRD data ("sync state") backend
- DONE: Flux CRD data ("sync state") frontend
- DONE: UI for kubernetes resources deployed by Flux
- DONE: Quick actions: logs, events, describe, port-forward
- Displaying Errors
- Error notifications
- Support for environments
- Display application meta information - service catalog items
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