Continuous Delivery and Feature Flagging

Timeline

• Florian Motlik from CodeshipIntroduction to Codeship & Best practices for Continuous Delivery with feature flags

• Edith Harbaugh from LaunchDarklyIntroduction to LaunchDarkly and Feature Flagging

• WorkHands Case study presented by Edith

• Q&A

FAQ

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Introduction to Codeship

Flo Motlik

Build - Release Cycle

Build

Test

Release

Validate

Codeship in a Nutshell

Dockerized Codeship

Support any Software

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Flexible Workflows

Parity between local & CI & Production

Github Flow

Dev Team

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Feature Branch

Master Branch

Automated TestsPush

Review and Merge

Continuous Delivery

Production Branch Timed releases

Merge to trigger release

Repository driven infrastructure

Dev Team

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Feature Branch

Master Branch

Automated TestsPush

Review and Merge

Continuous Delivery

Production Branch Timed releases

Merge to trigger release

Your Team only focuses on this

Sign up at http://codeship.com/docker

How to extend QA after deployment to production?

Feature flagging as a Continuous Delivery extension

Edith Harbaugh, CEO & Co-founderedith@launchdarkly.com

@launchdarkly

plan code test usersdeployteam rollout

Benefits• Push functionality: who you want, when you want• Get real world feedback• Quickly expand or roll back, without deployment!

1. Early Access Betas2. Opt-in 3. Random rollouts4. Block users/countries/segments5. Run a/b tests6. Paygate/subscription tiers7. Sunset old features

WorkHands: Blue-collar LinkedIn

Codeship + LaunchDarkly

Codeship + LaunchDarkly• Move faster• Less risk• Deliver value quicker

Q&A

• Edith Harbaugh - @edith_h

• Florian Motlik - @flomotlik