Flux

Flux applies plain manifests from Git, so with Flux you run cleat export in CI (or before committing) and commit the output.

cleat export app.cleat --target flux --out deploy --flux-source shop --flux-path deploy

This writes a directory per component and one file of Flux Kustomizations:

deploy/app/resources.yaml
deploy/config/resources.yaml
deploy/database/resources.yaml
deploy/flux-kustomizations.yaml

Each Kustomization points at its component’s directory, depends on the components in its after list, and has wait: true, so dependents wait until their dependencies are healthy rather than just applied:

apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
  name: app
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 10m
  path: ./deploy/app
  prune: true
  wait: true
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: shop
  dependsOn:
    - name: database
    - name: config

Option	Meaning
`--out <dir>`	Where to write (required).
`--flux-source <name>`	The `GitRepository` the Kustomizations read from (required).
`--flux-path <path>`	The repository path of `--out` (default `.`).
`--flux-namespace <ns>`	Namespace of the Kustomizations (default `flux-system`).
`--flux-prefix <prefix>`	Prefix for the Kustomization names.

Apply flux-kustomizations.yaml once (or include it from your cluster’s Flux configuration), and Flux picks up changes to the component directories from then on.

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