Stage 3: Shuttle Launch

About this course

Shuttle Launch is a series of courses designed to solidify your LaunchDarkly and feature management knowledge and skills. You’ll learn how to use flag hierarchies and flag relationships to safely release software in complex ecosystems, and you’ll get an in-depth view of segments and how they can help you manage flag targeting behavior in bulk. You’ll also learn how to use workflows and approvals to finely control and automate some of the manual tasks required to manage a feature flag.

Getting Started with Flag Hierarchy and Prerequisite Flags

Describe flag hierarchy, flag relationships, and flag structure
Define feature flag prerequisites and dependent flags and their use cases
Explain the use cases of feature bundling and decommissioning
Create a prerequisite flag and dependent flags

Getting Started with Segments

Define contexts, context kinds, and context attributes
Identify segments, segment types, and navigate the segments list
Convert a targeting rule to a standard segment
Create a segment
Customize and manage standard segments
Recognize best practices for working with Big Segments

Getting Started with Entitlements

Define the purpose of entitlements to manage end user experience
Recognize prerequisites to getting started with Entitlements
Explain common Entitlement use cases

Implementing Feature Workflows

Describe the purpose of feature workflows
Recognize how to build, view, and edit a workflow
Describe approvals and their use cases within LaunchDarkly
Explain the Approvals dashboard including how to request, view, approve, decline and delete approvals
Recognize how to configure approvals by environment
Describe the purpose of required comments and how to enable them
Explain the purpose and benefits of scheduled flag changes
Recognize the scheduled flag change dashboard including how to create, view, update, and delete scheduled flag changes
Manage conflicts with scheduled flag changes

Overview2 hours

Getting Started with Flag Hierarchy and Prerequisite Flags
Getting Started with Flag Hierarchy and Prerequisite Flags
Debrief
Getting Started with Segments
A Brief Refresher on Contexts
Getting Started with Segments
Debrief
Getting Started with Entitlements
Using Entitlements to Manage End-User Experience
Understanding Entitlement Best Practices
Debrief
Implementing Feature Workflows
Getting Started with Feature Workflows and Approvals
Understanding and Enabling Required Comments
Implementing Scheduled Flag Changes
Understanding Workflows
Demo: Getting Started with Automation and Workflows
Debrief
Knowledge Check and Feedback
Stage 3 Knowledge Check
Course Feedback

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