How do you push the files to all of your containers? I’ve done this in the past with app specific endpoints but never found a solution I liked with containers.
Ah that’s a super nice feature. I’m mostly familiar with AWS who don’t have a neat way of doing this, you end up with a bespoke solution either with lambdas pushing to shared volumes or just polling s3 for updates.
If you are using kubernetes, you can mount the secret/ConfigMap as a volume and it will be updated automatically when changes occur. Then your application merely watches the file for updates.
AWS has a native service for this called AppConfig and has agents that can pull and cache flag values so your services only need to make localhost requests.
We currently persist the feature flag config in a database where the containers pull it from. Not the optimal solution but that was a natural evolution from a system we already had in place.
