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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

Discovering team management

To begin, in this section, we will focus on the Account settings aspect of LaunchDarkly, which can be accessed via the sidebar. This page defaults to the Team section. By team, LaunchDarkly refers to all those who can log into this organization; it does not necessarily reflect all the teams that you have in your organization. In the upcoming sections, we will explore Projects and Roles, where we will take a look at how your own teams can be set up in LaunchDarkly. Underneath the Team section is a list of all people within the team, including a total number of members, as follows:

Figure 13.1 – Team management in Account settings

Looking at the preceding list of members, we find that it behaves just like the other LaunchDarkly dashboards that we viewed in the previous chapters. It is possible to search for a specific member via their name. The list can also be filtered based on the role a member has or when they last logged...