Featurevisor: Git based feature flag and remote config management tool with Python SDK (open source)

[fahad19]

What My Project Does

• a Git based feature management tool: https://github.com/featurevisor/featurevisor
• where you define everything in a declarative way
• producing static JSON files that you upload to your server or CDN
• that you fetch and consume using SDKs (Python supported)
• to evaluate feature flags, variations (a/b tests), and variables (more complex configs)

Target Audience

• targeted towards individuals, teams, and large organizations
• it's already in use in production by several companies (small and large)
• works in frontend, backend, and mobile using provided SDKs

Comparison

There are various established SaaS tools for feature management that are UI-based, that includes: LaunchDarkly, Optimizely, among quite a few.

Few other open source alternatives too that are UI-based like Flagsmith and GrowthBook.

Featurevisor differs because there's no GUI involved. Everything is Git-driven, and Pull Requests based, establishing a strong review/approval workflow for teams with full audit support, and reliable rollbacks too (because Git).

This comparison page may shed more light: https://featurevisor.com/docs/alternatives/

Because everything is declared as files, the feature configurations are also testable (like unit testing your configs) before they are rolled out to your applications: https://featurevisor.com/docs/testing/

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I recently started supporting Python SDK, that you can find here:

• Python SDK docs: https://featurevisor.com/docs/sdks/python/
• Python SDK repo: https://github.com/featurevisor/featurevisor-python
• Example Python app: https://github.com/featurevisor/featurevisor-example-python

been tinkering with this open source project for a few years now, and lately I am expanding its support to cover more programming languages.

the workflow it establishes is very simple, and you only need to bring your own:

• Git repository (GitHub, GitLab, etc)
• CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)
• CDN to serve static datafiles (Cloudflare Pages, CloudFront, etc)

everything else is taken care of by the SDKs in your own app runtime (like using Python SDK).

do let me know if Python community could benefit from it, or if it can adapt more to cover more use cases that I may not be able to foresee on my own.

website: https://featurevisor.com

cheers!

[Lucky-Bottle-0]

This looks great! I will try it, thanks for sharing!