From the course: Continuous Deployment Strategies by Pearson

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Appropriate tools

Appropriate tools

All right, let's dive into the tools and infrastructure you'll need to make decoupled deployments work seamlessly. Specifically, we need one tool that does two things to make this work. We need a tool that we can integrate into our code to toggle features on and off. And then we need a tool that will provide a way to control those toggles without needing to redeploy our code. So let's start by toggling features on and off. If you're a developer, then you have probably already thought through how you could code these show-hide toggles. Of course, you could certainly code these toggles manually and build your own solution from scratch. But don't forget, you also need an entire control panel that can control those toggles, plus give you the ability to toggle them on and off in different scenarios and strategies and with different criteria. And let's be honest. In today's world, why spend valuable time reinventing the wheel, especially when there are already fantastic tools out there that…

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