Simplify Feature Flag Management with Harness FME and OpenFeature
Blog post from Harness
Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) has been investing in OpenFeature, a CNCF standard for feature flagging, since 2022, to address the complexities of modern software development. Feature flags are crucial in allowing teams to ship features safely and test functionality without redeployment, but managing them consistently across multiple services, environments, and languages presents challenges. OpenFeature offers a vendor-agnostic API that standardizes flag behavior across different SDKs and programming languages, aiding in the integration with analytics and CI/CD systems. Harness FME utilizes OpenFeature to simplify flag evaluations, rollouts, and feature impact tracking without altering existing workflows, thus managing the intricate layers of feature management beyond simple boolean toggling. The collaboration aims to meet growing demands for governance, experimentation, and observability in software delivery, and plans to expand support to additional server-side providers like Go and Ruby.