OpenFeature feature flag project applies for CNCF sandbox project status

A consortium led by Dynatrace has submitted OpenFeature to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for thought as a sandbox venture.

The observability software program specialist is acquiring the open resource feature flag standard in partnership with LaunchDarkly, GitLab, Split, Flagsmith, CloudBees, and other folks.

Aspect flagging has emerged as a essential enabler for helpful constant software shipping, devops and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices by enabling builders to toggle selected application operation on and off at runtime, with no deploying new code.

The method and tooling has also matured not long ago to help more granular aspect flagging to test operation on sure consumer cohorts, or even as a way to troubleshoot issues by disabling specified operation at runtime.

“Feature flagging is getting traction appropriate now with this extensive range of use circumstances and the means to granularly control attribute deployment,” explained Alois Reitbauer, main products officer for cloud automation at Dynatrace.

Accomplished ideal, this enables developers to a lot more efficiently exam new operation and keep away from introducing bugs. Finished badly, it can deliver chaos as distinct groups have to configure and juggle different aspect flagging libraries and tools.

OpenFeature aims to give a unified API and SDK, starting up with Java, JavaScript and Go, which will empower builders to have a constant common for element flags and then layer on their preferred tool, be it LaunchDarkly, Optimizely or other common element administration options.

“Creating this OpenFeature conventional will allow groups to undertake the most effective answer far more effortlessly, with no introducing new integration necessities,” Daniel O’Brien, ecosystem engineer at LaunchDarkly reported in a assertion.

By becoming open and extensible, OpenFeature desires to follow in the footsteps of the quick-rising OpenTelemetry challenge, which is commencing to set up alone as an open up typical for metrics, logs and traces. Dynatrace is also a key contributor to OpenTelemetry.

The OpenFeature venture will now wait to see if it is recognized by the CNCF as a sandbox task and is aiming for a 1. normal availability launch by drop this year.