The source-controller is a Kubernetes operator, specialised in artifacts acquisition from external sources such as Git, Helm repositories and S3 buckets. The source-controller implements the source.toolkit.fluxcd.io API and is a core component of the GitOps toolkit.
Features:
- authenticates to sources (SSH, user/password, API token)
- validates source authenticity (PGP)
- detects source changes based on update policies (semver)
- fetches resources on-demand and on-a-schedule
- packages the fetched resources into a well-known format (tar.gz, yaml)
- makes the artifacts addressable by their source identifier (sha, version, ts)
- makes the artifacts available in-cluster to interested 3rd parties
- notifies interested 3rd parties of source changes and availability (status conditions, events, hooks)
- reacts to Git push and Helm chart upload events (via notification-controller)