Exploring targeting with users and segments
Several of the previous chapters have presented examples of how to target features at users, be it specific targeting or through the use of percentage and ring rollouts. Both Chapter 3, Basics of LaunchDarkly and Feature Management, and Chapter 4, Percentage and Ring Rollouts, provided good examples of targeting users. In this section, more details and examples will be provided to show off more use cases of LaunchDarkly's targeting.
With regards to targeting a feature flag's variation at specific individual users, there is not too much to say as there is a single configuration option. For each variation that's available on the flag, there is the option to add a specific user to receive one of the outcomes. This is true of all types of feature flags, including multi-variant ones, as seen here:
Figure 10.12 – Targeting specific users
The specific targeting is executed ahead of checking a user...
