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Ask HN: Open-source feature flag service?

by masonicb00m on 7/12/19, 5:23 PM with 8 comments

Is there an open-source self-hosted feature flag service (like Launch Darkly, Gatekeeper, etc...)?

I’d rather run my own than have someone else do it, but if you’ve had good experiences with the SaaS options I’d be interested in hearing that too.

  • by sslalready on 7/12/19, 6:45 PM

    https://github.com/Unleash/unleash

    > Unleash is a feature toggle system, that gives you a great overview over all feature toggles across all your applications and services. It comes with official client implementations for Java, Node.js, Go, Ruby and Python.

  • by gshdg on 7/13/19, 1:43 PM

    Why would you need a service to manage your feature flags?

  • by pkaeding on 7/12/19, 6:12 PM

    This page has some resources that should get you started: http://featureflags.io/resources/

    There are lots of open-source feature flag options. Most are probably better thought of as 'libraries' than 'services', but they can definitely get you going with feature flags.

  • by mindcrash on 7/12/19, 7:30 PM

    Here are two in microservice shape, ready-to-use and ready-to-deploy I am aware of:

    https://github.com/checkr/flagr

    https://github.com/markphelps/flipt

  • by remilouf on 7/12/19, 6:12 PM

    I’ve had the same frustration recently and coded a working prototype in Elixir. I’d be happy to share.

  • by macca321 on 7/12/19, 10:09 PM

    https://bullet-train.io/ looks promising