Moving to Production

First, log in to the Flipt Cloud web interface. You can access the login page at https://flipt.cloud.

From the Flipt Cloud dashboard, find the environment you want to create an API key for and hover over the environment name.

Click on the Edit link.

Click on the Security tab and then click on the Create API Key button.

Give your API a name to help you identify it later and click on the Create button.

Copy the API key to your clipboard and save it in a secure location. You will not be able to access the API key after you leave this page.

Choose the SDK that matches your application’s language and install it. All client-side SDKs are documented here.

Configure the SDK with the API key you created in the previous step and set the following options:

• URL: The URL of the Flipt Cloud API.
• Authentication: The API key authentication method configured with the API key you created in the previous step.
• (Optional) Namespace: The namespace to use for the SDK. (Default: default)
• (Optional) Fetch Mode: Set to streaming to enable streaming mode. (Default: polling)

For example, here’s how you can configure the SDK for a Go application:

evaluationClient, _ := flipt.NewClient(
    flipt.WithURL("https://<environment>-<organization>.flipt.cloud"),
    flipt.WithClientTokenAuthentication(<api-key>),
    flipt.WithNamespace(<namespace>),
    flipt.WithFetchMode(flipt.FetchModeStreaming),
)

That’s it! 🎉 You can now use the SDK to evaluate feature flags and configurations.

Configure the Flipt instances to use the Git repository data source.

As described in the Flipt Open Source storage documentation, you can configure the Flipt instances to use the Git repository data source.

Here you can use the same repository and branch as you used when creating the Flipt Cloud environment.

storage:
type: git
git:
    repository: "https://github.com/<git-organization>/<git-repository>"
    ref: "main"
    poll_interval: "30s"
    authentication:
        token:
            access_token: <git-access-token>

Restart the Flipt instances to apply the changes.

Choose the SDK that matches your application’s language and install it. All server-side SDKs are documented here.

Configure the SDK with the URL of your Flipt instance within your infrastructure.

• URL: The URL of the Flipt instance.

For example, here’s how you can configure the OpenFeature SDK for a Go application:

provider := flipt.NewProvider(flipt.WithAddress("https://localhost:443")) // Replace with the URL of your Flipt instance
openfeature.SetProvider(provider)

client := openfeature.NewClient("my-app")
value, err := client.BooleanValue(context.Background(), "v2_enabled", false, openfeature.NewEvaluationContext(
    "tim@apple.com",
    map[string]interface{}{
        "favorite_color": "blue",
    },
))

That’s it! 🎉 You can now scale your feature flagging operations with Flipt Cloud and Flipt Open Source.

All changes to the feature flags and configurations are automatically propagated to your Flipt instances within your infrastructure through the Git repository data source.