Summary

To get the most out of feature management, there needs to be a certain level of confidence and reliability in the tool that is being used to change the availability of functionality within a production system. LaunchDarkly not only provides the functionality to enable feature flags targeting, experimentation, and rollouts, but it also offers a wealth of other features to manage the risk of inadvertent changes to production or malicious actors getting into the system. This chapter, although not dealing with feature management functionality directly, shows how LaunchDarkly can be configured according to the team and business needs.

Using projects and environments, flags can be grouped to best serve different team structures and business needs. Measures can be imposed on certain environments to ensure good governance and to limit the chance of negative changes being made. Adding to that, members of the LaunchDarkly account can be limited in what they can do using the powerful...