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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 roles and permission management

Throughout this book, I have emphasized how being able to make changes easily to production through feature management is an immensely powerful option for businesses in order to manage and fine-tune their products. However, it comes with the risk that if changes are made accidentally or maliciously, then the impact could be substantial. To reduce this risk and to make sure the right individuals have the ability to make changes to the right flags and on the right environments, roles and permissions are used within LaunchDarkly.

There are three built-in roles that LaunchDarkly offers to provide a basic set of permission rules. These default roles are as follows:

  • Reader: Members of the LaunchDarkly account with this role can only access and view LaunchDarkly but are unable to make any changes. This might be useful for stakeholders or members of support teams who would benefit from being able to see the targeting rules and configuration...