Feature Workflows
Deliver and control software with speed, safety, and consistency.
With Feature Workflows, you can now elevate your use of feature flags by creating complex workflows within LaunchDarkly that better map to how your teams build, ship, and control software.
Schedule changes to your flag's targeting rules for a future date and time.
Require approvals before making changes to critical feature flags.
Automate changes to your feature flags based on metrics from external tools.
Use Scheduling, Approvals, and Flag Triggers to create a custom workflow template that can be applied across many feature flags.
Build & automate complex multi-step workflows that empower more teams and integrate with the tools you care about. Use each of these capabilities in isolation, or combine them seamlessly to create incredibly powerful custom workflows.
Templates allow you to save and share standardized workflows across your entire organization and ensure every team has a consistent release process.
Like everything at LaunchDarkly, we built Feature Workflows API first, so you can build your own integrations on top of the feature workflows capabilities.
Feature Workflows adds significant value to your current software development process by automating changes and making them safe & approval-based.
Incremental Release Workflow
Scheduling
Define complex changes to flags and segments to be applied at a future date and time.
With Scheduling, you no longer need to set reminders or wake up early to turn a flag ON. Scheduling your flag to turn on at a specified date/time allows you to plan your release and let LaunchDarkly do the rest.
Schedule your flag to automatically roll out to 20% of your user base tomorrow, 35% the day after, 50% the day after that, and increase that percentage until it reaches 100%. Define the release cadence that best fits your team’s needs and LaunchDarkly will take care of automating it.
Enable your customers to temporarily test out new features without worrying about managing the cleanup down the road. Use scheduling to automatically remove user targets from a flag or segment after a specified amount of time for things like a 30-day trial.
Schedule your flag’s targeting rules to clean up once your flag has been rolled out to 100% of your users, to practice better flag hygiene, and more easily understand the flag's configuration.
Feature Workflows will save my team time, help us to avoid mistakes, and enable us to stage automatic rollouts of new functionality to our customers.
Approvals
Making changes to production code can be scary if you don't have the right change management processes and tools in place. Use LaunchDarkly to help enforce your approval and compliance policies before making changes to feature flags in critical environments.
Increase confidence in your changes by getting peer feedback on proposed flag changes before taking action. These simple guardrails will ensure every change has a second pair of developer eyes.
Enforce strict approval practices in critical environments before any changes are applied. Compliance-based approvals can be enabled for an entire environment, requiring every change to go through a configured change management process.
Comply with your organization’s change management practices no matter what tool they live in. Approvals for certain actions can be requested & granted directly from the LaunchDarkly application or request for approvals from users or groups within 3rd party tracking tools like ServiceNow.
Flag Triggers
Connect with the tools you rely on for observability and data analysis and dynamically trigger flag updates based on the metrics that matter.
Connect your observability tools to LaunchDarkly and automatically turn a flag OFF or ON if your tools detect a critical service issue. No more 2:00 am pages just to flip a feature flag.
Experimentation is really valuable but requires manual intervention to see an experiment through to completion. This can make it difficult to manage multiple experiments at a time and ensure that the optimal variation of a feature is always being served to your customers. With Feature Workflows, you can ensure that for every experiment the winning variation is automatically rolled out to your customers.
Testing in production is a critical step to ensuring high-quality software. Health Checks help your team automate the process by measuring performance in your observability tools and requiring certain thresholds to be met before allowing a new feature to move on to the next phase of the release. This will allow your team to automatically test if a new feature is meeting your service level objectives and give you confidence that every new feature has automatically been vetted in production before being released more broadly.
I really like how Feature Workflows bakes itself into our tooling so that teams can plan and schedule their feature releases from the same place they create and test their work.
