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...
