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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

Learning about authorization and security

The next two sections of Account settings that will be covered are Authorization and Security. These are two separate sections on the settings page, but both relate in terms of ensuring that your LaunchDarkly account and the access to it are secure. Let's begin with the Authorization section:

Figure 13.15 – The Authorization section of Account settings

There are two aspects to this section, as follows:

  • Authorized applications: These are the applications that connect to this LaunchDarkly account through an OAuth connection. They are used for integrations with other tools, such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. This type of integration can be useful for receiving notifications or as a trigger when key events occur in LaunchDarkly. For example, a team might want notifications when a new flag is created or when targeting rules are changed in production flags. This helps a team stay aware of how their production...