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Fix script for December. Signed-off-by: Daniel Holbach <daniel@weave.works>
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+author: dholbach
+date: 2023-01-23 09:30:00+00:00
+title: January 2023 Update
+description: "XX"
+url: /blog/2023/02/january-2023-update/
+tags: [monthly-update]
+resources:
+- src: "**.{png,jpg}"
+  title: "Image #:counter"
+---
+
+As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we
+strive to inform you each January about what has already landed, new
+possibilities which are available for integration, and where you can get
+involved. Read our last update [here](/blog/2022/12/november-2022-update/).
+
+It's the beginning of February 2023 - let's recap together what
+happened in December and January - it has been a lot!
+
+## News in the Flux family
+
+### Next Flux release: more stability and performance improvements
+
+We have released Flux v0.38. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best
+experience.
+
+Features and improvements
+
+- Graduation of Notification APIs to `v1beta2`, to upgrade please see
+  [the release notes](https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/releases/tag/v0.38.0).
+- Support for defining Kustomize components with `Kustomization.spec.components`.
+- Support for piping multi-doc YAMLs when publishing OCI artifacts with
+  `kustomize build . | flux push artifact --path=-`.
+- Support for Gitea commit status updates with `Provider.spec.type` set to
+  `gitea`.
+- Improve the memory usage of `helm-controller` by disabling the caching of
+  `Secret` and `ConfigMap` resources.
+- Update the Helm SDK to v3.10.3 (fix for Helm CVEs).
+- All code references to `libgit2` were removed, and the
+  `GitRepository.spec.gitImplementation` field is no longer being honored.
+
+Documentation
+
+The official example repository was refactored. The new version comes with
+the following improvements:
+
+- Make the example compatible with ARM64 Kubernetes clusters.
+- Add Weave GitOps Helm release to showcase the Flux UI.
+- Replace the ingress-nginx Bitnami chart with the official one that contains
+  multi-arch container images.
+- Add cert-manager Helm release to showcase how to install CRDs and custom
+  resources using `dependsOn`.
+- Add Let’s Encrypt ClusterIssuer to showcase how to patch resources in
+  production with Flux `Kustomization`.
+- Add the `flux-system` overlay to showcase how to configure Flux at
+  bootstrap time.
+
+♥ Big thanks to all the Flux contributors that helped us with this release!
+
+### Security news
+
+### Flagger 1.27.0
+
+This release comes with support for Apache APISIX. For more details see
+[the tutorial](/flagger/tutorials/apisix-progressive-delivery).
+
+### Flux Ecosystem
+
+<!--
+
+If you add entries to this subsection, please don't use "we" as it gets
+confusing from which perspective the whole blog post is written and who
+"we" is. The whole post is meant to be from the perspective of the Flux
+community. Better to write:]
+
+- "Since the new release of X, it supports Y." or
+- "Team lead X says: 'we have put a lot of effort into Y and are
+   really proud of the performance results' ..." or
+- "The team has been working on ..."
+
+-->
+
+#### Flux Subsystem for Argo
+
+#### Terraform-controller
+
+#### Weave GitOps
+
+- <https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops/releases/tag/v0.15.0>
+- <https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops/releases/tag/v0.14.1>
+- <https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops/releases/tag/v0.13.0>
+- <https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops/releases/tag/v0.12.0>
+
+#### Azure GitOps
+
+#### VS Code GitOps Extension
+
+#### New additions to the Flux Ecosystem
+
+## Recent & Upcoming Events
+
+It's important to keep you up to date with new features and developments
+in Flux and provide simple ways to see our work in action and chat with
+our engineers.
+
+### Recent Events (ICYMI) 📺
+
+We feel blessed to have such a big community of users, contributors and
+integrators and so many are happy to talk about their experiences. In
+December and January here are a couple of talks we would like to highlight.
+
+{{< youtube JHmQlSvL0II >}}
+
+> HashiCorp User Group Luxembourg: GitOps your Terraform Configurations
+>
+> Flux Terraform Controller is a controller for Flux to reconcile Terraform
+> configurations in the GitOps way with the power of Flux and Terraform,
+> Terraform Controller allows you to GitOps-ify your infrastructure, and
+> your application resources, in the Kubernetes and Terraform universe.
+>
+> Flux Terraform Controller ensures what you’ve defined in your Terraform
+> configurations is what’s always running and available. Flux continuously
+> looks for changes and reconciles with the desired state. Take advantage
+> of all the benefits of GitOps: streamlined and secure deployments, quicker
+> time to market, and more time to concentrate on app development!
+
+{{< youtube uRiCRTSkPOQ >}}
+
+> Flux’s Security & Scalability with OCI & Helm (Part 2) with Kingdon Barrett
+>
+> With Flux, you can distribute and reconcile Kubernetes configuration packaged
+> as OCI artifacts. Instead of connecting Flux to a Git repository where the
+> application desired state is defined, you can connect Flux to a container
+> registry where you’ll push the application deploy manifests, right next to
+> the application container images.
+>
+> During this session Kingdon Barrett, OSS Engineer at Weaveworks & Flux
+> Maintainer, shows you how to quickly create scalable and Cosign-verified GitOps
+> configurations with Flux using the same process with two demo environments: one
+> will be a Kustomize Environment and the other a Helm-based environment.
+
+{{< youtube Bmh7kKYLIhY >}}
+
+> Flux Security & Scalability using VS Code GitOps Extension
+>
+> Recently Flux has released two new features (OCI and Cosign) for scalable and
+> secure GitOps. Juozas Gaigalas, a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks,
+> will demonstrate how developers and platform engineers can quickly create
+> scalable and Cosign-verified GitOps configurations using VS Code GitOps Tools
+> extension. New and experienced Flux users can learn about Flux’s OCI and Cosign
+> support through this demo. Join us!
+
+Here is a list of additional videos and topics we really enjoyed -
+please let us know if we missed anything of interest and we will make
+sure to mention it in the next post!
+
+### Upcoming Events 📆
+
+We are happy to announce that we have a number of events coming up in
+February - tune in to learn more about Flux and GitOps best practices,
+get to know the team and join our community.
+
+### Flux Bug Scrub
+
+Our Flux Bug Scrubs still are happening on a weekly basis and remain one
+of the best ways to get involved in Flux. They are a friendly and
+welcoming way to learn more about contributing and how Flux is organised
+as a project.
+
+The next dates are going to be:
+
+- [2023-02-02 18:00 UTC, 19:00 CET](/#calendar)
+- [2023-02-08 13:00 UTC, 14:00 CET](/#calendar)
+- [2023-02-16 18:00 UTC, 19:00 CET](/#calendar)
+- [2023-02-22 13:00 UTC, 14:00 CET](/#calendar)
+
+We are flexible with subjects and often go with the interests of the
+group or of the presenter. If you want to come and join us in either
+capacity, just show up or if you have questions, reach out to Kingdon on
+Slack.
+
+We really enjoyed this [demo of the k3d git
+server](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNt3v0kk6ec)
+recently. It's a local Git server that runs outside of Kubernetes, to
+support offline dev in a realistic but also simple way that does not
+depend on GitHub or other hosted services.
+
+## In other news
+
+### Soulé Ba joins Flux Core Maintainers
+
+Soulè Ba has been working on Flux for a long while. Already a maintainer
+of Flux's `go-git-providers`, he didn't stop there but was involved in
+a lot of the RFC planning process of many features and contributed code and
+fixes for a long long time.
+
+The Flux community is grateful to have you. Well deserved becoming a
+[https://github.com/fluxcd/community/pull/271](Core maintainer now), Soulé!
+
+### Your Community Team
+
+### People writing/talking about Flux
+
+We love it when you all write about Flux and share your experience,
+write how-tos on integrating Flux with other pieces of software or other
+things. Give us a shout-out and we will link it from this section! ✍
+
+- <https://containerjournal.com/features/introduction-to-flux/>
+- ...
+
+### News from the Website and our Docs
+
+#### Flux Adopters shout-out
+
+We are very pleased to announce that the following adopters of Flux have
+come forward and added themselves to our website:
+[DoneOps](https://www.doneops.com/) and [Riley](https://riley.ai/).
+
+If you have not already done so, [use the instructions
+here](/adopters/) or give us a ping and we will help to add you. Not only
+is it great for us to get to know and welcome you to our community. It
+also gives the team a big boost in morale to know where in the world
+Flux is used everywhere.
+
+#### More docs and website news
+
+We are constantly improving our documentation and website - here are a
+couple of small things we landed recently:
+
+- The [Flux landing page](/) is shorter and less overwhelming now.
+  This was achieved by moving the adopters logos into a horizontal
+  scroll band, dropping some old content and there will be more to
+  come here.
+- Flagger docs were update to the latest.
+- Flux Bootstrap: cheatsheet for how to [Persistent storage for Flux
+  internal artifacts](/flux/cheatsheets/bootstrap/#persistent-storage-for-flux-internal-artifacts)
+- [Our FAQ](/flux/faq/) now has entries about how to safely rename a
+  Flux Kustomization and how to set local overrides to a Helm chart.
+- [Flux GCP docs](/flux/use-cases/gcp-source-repository/) were updated.
+- We improved the [Flux Support page](/support) to be even clearer
+  about how to get Support for Flux, no matter if it's professionally
+  or for community support.
+- We dropped a lot of unnecessary website build code; now a lot of the
+  dynamic content is generated straight from YAML through Hugo Data
+  Templates. This makes the website build process a lot more stable
+  and we have less build scripts to maintain!
+- Update to latest hugo plus docsy and gallery themes.
+
+Thanks a lot to these folks who contributed to docs and website: Stefan
+Prodan, Arhell, Aurel Canciu, Hidde Beydals, h20220026, Paulo Gomes,
+Sanskar Jaiswal, Stacey Potter, Johannes Wienke, Jonathan Meyers, Lassi
+Pölönen, Nate, Scott Rigby, Sunny, Tarunbot, h20220025.
+
+## Flux Project Facts
+
+We are very proud of what we have put together. We want to reiterate
+some Flux facts - they are sort of our mission statement with Flux.
+
+1. 🤝 Flux provides GitOps for both apps or
+  infrastructure. Flux and Flagger deploy apps with
+  canaries, feature flags, and A/B rollouts. Flux can also manage
+  any Kubernetes resource. Infrastructure and workload dependency
+  management is built-in.
+1. 🤖 Just push to Git and Flux does the rest. Flux
+  enables application deployment (CD) and (with the help of Flagger)
+  progressive delivery (PD) through automatic reconciliation. Flux
+  can even push back to Git for you with automated container image
+  updates to Git (image scanning and patching).
+1. 🔩 Flux works with your existing tools: Flux works with
+  your Git providers (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, can even use
+  s3-compatible buckets as a source), all major container
+  registries, and all CI workflow providers.
+1. 🔒 Flux is designed with security in mind: Pull vs. Push,
+  least amount of privileges, adherence to Kubernetes security
+  policies and tight integration with security tools and
+  best-practices. Read more about our security considerations.
+1. ☸️ Flux works with any Kubernetes and all common Kubernetes
+  tooling: Kustomize, Helm, RBAC, and policy-driven
+  validation (OPA, Kyverno, admission controllers) so it simply
+  falls into place.
+1. 🤹 Flux does Multi-Tenancy (and "Multi-everything"):
+  Flux uses true Kubernetes RBAC via impersonation and supports
+  multiple Git repositories. Multi-cluster infrastructure and apps
+  work out of the box with Cluster API: Flux can use one Kubernetes
+  cluster to manage apps in either the same or other clusters, spin
+  up additional clusters themselves, and manage clusters including
+  lifecycle and fleets.
+1. 📞 Flux alerts and notifies: Flux provides health
+  assessments, alerting to external systems and external events
+  handling. Just "git push", and get notified on Slack and [other
+  chat
+  systems](https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/blob/main/docs/spec/v1beta1/provider.md).
+1. 👍 Users trust Flux: Flux is a CNCF Graduated project
+  and was categorised as "Adopt" on the [CNCF CI/CD Tech
+  Radar](https://radar.cncf.io/2020-06-continuous-delivery)
+  (alongside Helm).
+1. 💖 Flux has a lovely community that is very easy to work
+  with! We welcome contributors of any kind. The
+  components of Flux are on Kubernetes core controller-runtime, so
+  anyone can contribute and its functionality can be extended very
+  easily.
+
+## Over and out
+
+If you like what you read and would like to get involved, here are a few
+good ways to do that:
+
+- Join our [upcoming dev meetings](/community/#meetings) on
+  2023-02-09 or 2023-02-15.
+- Talk to us in the #flux channel on [CNCF Slack](https://slack.cncf.io/)
+- Join the [planning discussions](https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/discussions)
+- And if you are completely new to Flux, take a look at our [Get
+  Started guide](/docs/get-started/) and give us feedback
+- Social media: Follow [Flux on Twitter](https://twitter.com/fluxcd),
+  join the discussion in the [Flux LinkedIn
+  group](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8985374/).
+
+We are looking forward to working with you.
diff --git a/hack/new-update-post.py b/hack/new-update-post.py
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@ def generate_blog_post_draft():
     today = date.today()
     month_name = today.strftime('%B')
     year = today.year
-    next_month = date(year, today.month+1, 1).strftime('%m')
     if today.month == 12:
         year += 1
         next_month = '01'
+    else:
+        next_month = date(year, today.month+1, 1).strftime('%m')
     directory = os.path.join(
         BLOG_DIR, '{}-{}-{}-{}-update'.format(
             year, next_month, '01', month_name.lower()))

diff --git a/templates/monthly-update.md b/templates/monthly-update.md
@@ -76,22 +76,6 @@ We are happy to announce that we have a number of events coming up in
 MONTH- tune in to learn more about Flux and GitOps best practices,
 get to know the team and join our community.
 
-[CNCF Livestream (Aug 17) with Kingdon
-Barrett](https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cloud-native-live-vscode-and-flux-testing-the-new-unreleased-oci-repository-feature/)
-
-The Flux project continues in active development with the addition of
-OCI configuration planned in the GA roadmap.
-
-Another Flux advancement has been the creation of the new VSCode
-Extension which provides a convenient interface to Flux that can help
-reduce friction moving between editor and terminal, alleviating the
-headache of context switching overloading developer focus.
-
-Flux maintainer Kingdon Barrett will demonstrate the pre-release of
-Flux's new OCI features and a convenient way to access them while they
-remain in pre-release so you can provide the feedback that is needed by
-Flux maintainers to make this feature a success!
-
 ### Flux Bug Scrub
 
 Our Flux Bug Scrubs still are happening on a weekly basis and remain one