Feature Flags Made Simple with Laravel Pennant

Feature flags are one of those things that seem like overkill until the day you desperately need one. You're in the middle of a deployment, something's wrong with the new checkout flow for 3% of users, and instead of a rollback, you flip a flag and the problem disappears in seconds. Laravel Pennant is the first-party answer to this need. It's lightweight, integrates naturally with Laravel, and has a clean API that gets out of your way. This tutorial covers everything from installation to running a proper percentage-based rollout. Installation composer require laravel/pennant php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Pennant\PennantServiceProvider" php artisan migrate Publishing the service provider creates a config/pennant.php configuration file and a features migration. The migration adds a features table that Pennant's database driver uses to store resolved flag values. Storage Drivers Pennant supports two storage drivers. The array driver stores resolved values in memory for th...