Change and release management

Innovate faster while managing change.

Deliver first-class digital experiences in less time. Mitigate risk and maintain compliance along the way.

Reconcile change management and DevOps

Heavy change management inhibits modern software delivery. LaunchDarkly streamlines releases, improving collaboration between developers, release managers, digital product owners, DevOps, and change approvers.

Decentralize software change approvals

Spare your CAB from having to review every change. Allow peer reviews with the right safeguards in place.

Automate compliant release workflows

Weave change controls into repeatable release templates. Fix bugs in real-time. Adhere to regulations.

Advance platform standardization

Scale low-risk, compliant releases across your organization. Ship faster and with higher quality.

Continuously deliver value

Remove bottlenecks from releases. Boost developer productivity. Increase customer satisfaction.

“...[sometimes] we’d have to run...changes through a rigorous approval process before going live. It was slow and stressful. But now our attitude is: We trust what we ship, but we always have a backup plan with LaunchDarkly.”

CLIMATE LLC, A BAYER COMPANY

 Artie Lee

Director of Engineering

Decentralize approvals

Confidently designate more changes as “standard”

Give developers and digital product owners more autonomy but with guardrails.

Safely test features in production

Mitigate risk with feature flags. Allow developers to test features in a controlled production environment with fail-safes in place. After such realistic testing, you’ll feel less anxious when releasing to a wider audience.

Instantly roll back broken features

When a feature causes a bug, hit a kill switch to turn it off in 200ms. No need to push code through your deployment pipeline or change approval process. Put your mind at ease when deploying and operating software.

Progressively deliver changes with targeting

Release features to a subset of users, gather feedback, and iterate. If something goes wrong, halt the rollout and limit the blast radius of the problem. If all goes well, proceed as planned. Tread cautiously and quickly.

Automate workflows

Automate release workflows

Build multi-step workflows in which change controls and compliance requirements are embedded.

Schedule deployments and releases in advance

With Feature Workflows, specify a date and time on which a feature update to your application will go live. Moreover, schedule a gradual rollout of such features. Comfortably set and forget.

Automatically assign change reviewers

When proposing a new feature change, automatically request the right approvals for that change via LaunchDarkly’s integrations with tools like ServiceNow. Adhere to the SOC II “segregation of duties” requirement.

Resolve incidents in near-real-time

Rest easy with Flag Triggers. When a flagged feature causes production errors, your observability and monitoring (APM) tool notifies LaunchDarkly, which in turn disables the flag. This happens automatically. You’re welcome.

Scale releases

Advance platform standardization

Scale DevOps and standard release patterns across large, disparate engineering teams.

Integrate feature flags with developers’ lives

LaunchDarkly is API-first, enabling you to seamlessly plug feature flags into your platform. We offer 25+ SDKs and several integrations, thereby supporting a wide range of languages, workflows, and maturity levels.

Enforce precise access controls

Custom Roles and Teams let you control who can access what in LaunchDarkly. Enforce access policies that meet your exact workflow needs. Ensure the right people can alter feature flags on-demand.

Audit every change automatically

Record changes to flagged features with LaunchDarkly’s full audit log or via our integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and ServiceNow. Present these logs to regulators. And do all this while reducing toil and paperwork.

Continuously deliver

Ship value faster

LaunchDarkly enables DevOps and safe CI/CD. Deliver features at a pace that meets market demands.

Decouple deployments from releases

Radically increase developer productivity with feature flags. Let engineers fearlessly ship code to production multiple times a day. And allow, say, release managers to roll that code out to end-users at the perfect time.

End merge conflicts

Do away with painful merge events that arise in long development cycles. Use feature flags to hide unfinished code in the main branch and deploy it without the usual stress. And do trunk-based development if you so desire.

Efficiently deliver topflight experiences

Create discrete user segments and deliver personalized digital experiences. Release features to specific users based on geography, feature preferences, and other custom attributes with less developer overhead.