Flux 1.18.0

This is a feature release with quite a few new features and fixes.

It includes new flags for fluxd and fluxctl; namely, it includes a new flag to disable registry scanning completely (--registry-disable-scanning) which allows deploying Flux without Memcached.

There is a new .flux.yaml variant (scanForFiles) which allows telling Flux to scan the local files, which is useful when mixing --manifest-generation with raw manifests.

This release also includes a few bugfixes. Namely, it comes with a fix for a filesystem leak in which git clone mirrors weren't being removed.

Enhancements

• Disable Image Scanning with --registry-disable-scanning fluxcd/flux{#2745, #2753 #2798, #2813}
• Add scanForFiles variant of .flux.yaml to scan current directory for manifests instead of generating them fluxcd/flux#2638
• Honor KUBECONFIG env variable in fluxd fluxcd/flux{#2741, #2760}
• Make Kubernetes resource-exclusion configurable through
  --k8s-unsafe-exclude-resource fluxcd/flux{#2749,
  #2754}
• Add detailed error message in fluxctl sync fluxcd/flux#2765
• Add --context flag to fluxctl fluxcd/flux#2715
• Add --containerflag to fluxctl list-workloads to filter by container name fluxcd/flux#2766
• Add --no-headers to fluxctl list-images and fluxctl list-workloads fluxcd/flux#2767
• Add nodeSelector to deployment templates for mixed-OS clusters fluxcd/flux#2692
• Distinguish cached registry errors from live ones fluxcd/flux#2782
• Update kustomize to v3.5.4 fluxcd/flux#2751
• Update kubectl to 1.15 and base image to Alpine to 3.11 fluxcd/flux#2781

Fixes

• Fix git clone leak and make clone cleanups more robust fluxcd/flux#2788
• Fix syncing with --k8s-default-namespace fluxcd/flux#2799
• Unmarshal Docker image labels separately fluxcd/flux#2785
• Raise error if arguments are provided to fluxctl version and fluxctl install fluxcd/flux#2809

Maintenance and Documentation

• Extend end-to-end tests fluxcd/flux{#2752, #2800, #2817}
• Make pkg/install a Go module to reduce its dependencies fluxcd/flux{#2778, #2822, #2824}
• e2e: Make Kind cluster creation more verbose fluxcd/flux#2791
• e2e: Update Kind to v0.7.0 fluxcd/flux#2743
• e2e: check for GNU parallel and schedule defers before creation
  fluxcd/flux#2727
• Update aws-sdk-go to v1.27.0 fluxcd/flux#2722
• Update packages to Kubernetes 1.16 fluxcd/flux#2731
• Remove obsolete integration-test target fluxcd/flux#2819
• Remove go-containerregistry replace directive fluxcd/flux#2776
• Fix make generate-deploy fluxcd/flux#2789
• snap: fix sorting of git tags fluxcd/flux#2772
• Make docker/image-tag work with multiple version tags fluxcd/flux#2748
• Update bug report template fluxcd/flux#2756
• Docs: update Sphinx fluxcd/flux#2694
• Update install docs to Helm v3 fluxcd/flux#2770
• Add Kiam whitelist to ECR docs fluxcd/flux{#2744, #2821}
• Fix typo and mention sops in .flux.yaml docs fluxcd/flux#2730
• Update the get-started guide to recent versions of Kustomize fluxcd/flux#2732
• Remove broken link from FAQ fluxcd/flux#2733
• Use table to display prod users fluxcd/flux#2716
• Add B3i, BlaBlaCar, Cloudlets, Mintel, UK Hydrographic Office, workarea and zaaksysteem to list of production users fluxcd/flux{#2707, #2783, #2773, #2701, #2747, #2784, #2714}

Thanks

Thanks to @2opremio, @Ant59, @dholbach, @dinosk, @fliphess, @hiddeco, @jurruh,
@krymzonn, @mcfearsome, @michaelbeaumont, @nabadger, @ogerbron, @patrickwall57,
@prometherion, @roffe, @rparsonsbb, @sa-spag, @squaremo and @stefanprodan
for their contributions to this release.