CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Project Calico is a widely adopted open-source solution known for its flexible architecture, providing robust networking and security across most cloud providers. Feature flagging is a critical step in every release for Project Calico, allowing Tigera engineers to deploy our solution without breaking the Internet. This talk will explore the importance of feature flagging within Project Calico, highlighted by the real-world case study of the Reddit Pi Day incident. We will discuss how this incident underscored the necessity of feature flagging and led to its extensive adoption in our project. Attendees will gain insights into the underlying problems that feature flagging solves on a big scale and the relevance of these practices in maintaining seamless, secure operations in diverse cloud environments. Join us to learn how Project Calico leverages feature flagging, which allows you to scroll through your favourite social services, such as Reddit!