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Feature Management with LaunchDarkly

By : Michael Gillett
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Feature Management with LaunchDarkly

By: Michael Gillett

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, DevOps has become the de facto approach for designing, building, and delivering software. Feature management is now extending the DevOps methodology to allow applications to change on demand and run experiments to validate the success of new features. If you want to make feature management happen, LaunchDarkly is the tool for you. This book explains how feature management is key to building modern software systems. Starting with the basics of LaunchDarkly and configuring simple feature flags to turn features on and off, you'll learn how simple functionality can be applied in more powerful ways with percentage-based rollouts, experimentation, and switches. You'll see how feature management can change the way teams work and how large projects, including migrations, are planned. Finally, you'll discover various uses of every part of the tool to gain mastery of LaunchDarkly. This includes tips and tricks for experimentation, identifying groups and segments of users, and investigating and debugging issues with specific users and feature flag evaluations. By the end of the book, you'll have gained a comprehensive understanding of LaunchDarkly, along with knowledge of the adoption of trunk-based development workflows and methods, multi-variant testing, and managing infrastructure changes and migrations.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
5
Section 2:Getting the Most out of Feature Management
11
Section 3: Mastering LaunchDarkly

Chapter 13: Configuration, Settings, and Miscellaneous

In this final chapter, we will explore the remaining aspects of LaunchDarkly. The functionalities that are covered here do not directly impact feature management, but they are all concerned with managing the settings and configuration of the LaunchDarkly tool.

As mentioned in earlier chapters, having good governance around LaunchDarkly is important. Feature management with LaunchDarkly offers a powerful opportunity for members of a team to make immediate changes to the production environment. However, there is a need to ensure that the right people have the right permissions to update the right feature flags.

To put the right measures and controls into place, this chapter will detail how teams can be managed and how permissions can be assigned to people in a project. This ensures that there is the confidence that only the people who belong to a project can make any changes. The segregation of flags within projects is important...