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How to Install & Set Up Flux CD

Install the Flux CLI and bootstrap the GitOps toolkit so your cluster continuously reconciles with a Git repository.

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Prerequisites

✓A Kubernetes cluster and kubectl configured
✓A GitHub/GitLab personal access token with repo scope

Install the Flux CLI

Linux

curl -s https://fluxcd.io/install.sh | sudo bash

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install fluxcd/tap/flux

Check the cluster is ready

terminal

flux check --pre

Bootstrap Flux against your repo

terminal

export GITHUB_TOKEN=<your-pat>
flux bootstrap github \
  --owner=my-org \
  --repository=my-fleet \
  --branch=main \
  --path=./clusters/my-cluster \
  --personal

Bootstrap commits the Flux components into your repo and installs them — from then on, Git is the source of truth. The install script and CLI binary above are identical on RHEL and Ubuntu; Flux itself is a genuinely open source Go project buildable from source via `git clone https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2.git && make build`.

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