The key capability a GitOps tool can provide to declaratively deploy each of our CRDs is health checks. Most Production Grade Gitops tools have the logic necessary to monitor K8s native resources (Pod
, Service
etc), but also the flexibility to extend to any Custom Resource.
Both Flux V1 and V2 has good support for K8s native resources, which makes it a great tool for the average Arc-enabled Kubernetes Customers deploying K8s components that aren't Customer Resources.
For custom resources, Flux V2 has limited literature, as it offloads that responsibility to kstatus, which makes rigid assumptions about the fields a CR should emit to be considered healthy - a boolean called Ready
. Due to there being no standardized pattern for this, many open source