during "flux bootstrap github " you may encounter such error :
SSH key scan for host github.com:443 failed, error: ssh: handshake failed: EOF
If you are behind a firewall whish block github 22 you can bypass with an argument like that :
2 repliesflux bootstrap github --owner=MYNAME --repository=MYNAME/MYREPO --personal --path bootstrap --ssh-hostname ssh.github.com:443
Thanks for the tip @jmmassou! I’ll amend the recipe to include this 
TIL that github runs an SSH server on port 443 
~ ❯ nc ssh.github.com 443 09:59:42
SSH-2.0-babeld-d975cc25
followed this, deployed flux successfully - but - I have my own hosted gitlab that I use instead of github, so, so far so good. Thing is - flux does not deploy anything, no kustomizations are actually getting in kubernetes cluster. I try commands flux reconcile, list, etc. - no error that it would not do something, but also, nothing gets deployed that i added, not even podinfo sample. Any clue why is that?
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It’s only necessary on the first master - the bootstrap gets the flux controllers into the cluster, so once it’s done, it’s done
Try logging flux’s source-controller pod, it may tell you why it can’t connect to your gitlab…
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strange as it is, now it is working… i recreated everything again. What is bothering me is that I have followed guide exactly as before and now it is working. Quick question - so everything that I want flux to deploy and maintain, it needs to be under the ./flux/ repo? Or can it check other repos and deploy from there?