Topology

The Flux topology provides a comprehensive view of your Flux-based GitOps infrastructure by monitoring and visualizing several key components:

1. Controllers: Monitors Flux system pods in the flux-system namespace.

2. Releases: Tracks HelmReleases with detailed information including:

   • Release status and health
   • Version information
   • Configuration details
   • Related pod connections

3. Kustomizations: Visualizes Kustomization resources showing:

   • Deployment status
   • Health metrics
   • Configuration state
   • Associated pod relationships

4. Repositories: Monitors Helm, OCI and Git repositories:

   • Helm repositories status and health
   • Git repository connections
   • Sync states
   • Error conditions

Benefits:

• Real-time visibility into GitOps workflows
• Visual relationship mappings between components
• Silence notifications at the Kustomization or HelmRelease level
• Efficient troubleshooting of deployment issues- Comprehensive property tracking for all components

Flux Topology Graph

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To enable the Flux Topology you need

• Mission Control installed
• kubectl access to the Mission Control instance
• A kubernetes scraper already installed.

1. Install the mission-control-flux chart

   Helm

   helm install mission-control-flux flanksource/mission-control-flux \
    -n mission-control --wait 

   Flux

   apiVersion:  helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2
   kind: HelmRelease
   metadata:
     name: mission-control-flux
     namespace: mission-control
   spec:
     chart:
       spec:
         chart: mission-control-flux
         sourceRef:
           kind: HelmRepository
           name: flanksource
           namespace: mission-control
         interval: 1m
     values:
   Single

   This chart only needs to be installed once, and groups all flux resources by cluster.