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[Read more in the Unleash documentation](https://docs.getunleash.io/)
## What is a feature toggle?
The main motivation for doing feature toggling is to decouple the process for deploying code to production and releasing new features. This helps reducing risk, and allow us to easily manage which features to enable, and have full control of how we exposed the new feature for.
> Feature toggles decouple **deployment** of code from **release** of new features
This repo contains the unleash-server, which contains the Unleash Admin UI and the Unleash API. In order to make use of unleash you will also need a client SDK.
[Online demo](https://app.unleash-hosted.com/demo)
## Segmentation
It's fine to have a system for turning stuff on and off. But some times we want more granular control, we want to decide who to the toggle should be enabled for. This is where activation strategies comes in to the picture. Activation strategies take arbitrary config and allows us to enable a toggle to specific subset of your users (segment).
Common activation strategies includes:
- Active For users with a specified userId
- GradualRollout to X-percent of our users
- Active for our beta users
- Active only for application instances running on host x.
Read more about [activation strategies in our docs](https://docs.getunleash.io/docs/user_guide/activation_strategy).
## The Client API
The [client SDKs](https://docs.getunleash.io/sdks) provides a simple abstraction making it easy to check feature toggles in your application. The code snippet below shows how you would use `Unleash` in Java.
```java
if (unleash.isEnabled("AwesomeFeature")) {
//do some magic
} else {
//do old boring stuff
}
```
# Running Unleash
The are numbers of ways you can run Unleash.
1. Unleash Enterprise - Cloud hosted by the the Unleash Team. [see plans](https://www.getunleash.io/plans)
2. Unleash Open-Source - Self host with Docker. [Guide](https://docs.getunleash.io/deploy/getting_started#start-unleash-server)
3. Unleash Open-Source - Self host with Node.js [Guide](https://docs.getunleash.io/deploy/getting_started#start-unleash-server)
4. Unleash Open-Source - Helm chart [artifacthub.io](https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/unleash/unleash)
### Run from Docker
1. Create a network by running docker network create unleash
2. Start a postgres database:
```sh
docker run -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=some_password \
-e POSTGRES_USER=unleash_user -e POSTGRES_DB=unleash \
--network unleash --name postgres postgres
```
3. Start Unleash via docker:
```sh
docker run -p 4242:4242 \
-e DATABASE_HOST=postgres -e DATABASE_NAME=unleash \
-e DATABASE_USERNAME=unleash_user -e DATABASE_PASSWORD=some_password \
-e DATABASE_SSL=false \
--network unleash unleashorg/unleash-server
```
The first time Unleash starts it will create a default user which you can use to sign-in to you Unleash instance and add more users with:
- username: `admin`
- password: `unleash4all`
# Users of Unleash
Unleash is trusted by thousands of companies all over the world (we are tracking more than 90 countries already). Proud Open-Source users:
_(PS! feel free to submit your logo!)_
# Contribute to Unleash
Unleash has been built with the help of many smart individuals. This ensures that we build a product that solves real problem for people. If you want to contribute to this project you are encouraged to send issue request, or provide pull-requests. Please read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn more on how you can contribute.
# Community and Help
We know that learning a new tool can be hard and time consuming. We have a growing community which loves to help out. Please don't hesitate about reaching out to get help.
- [Join Unleash on Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/unleash-community/shared_invite/enQtNjUxMjU2MDc0MTAxLTJjYmViYjkwYmE0ODVlNmY1YjcwZGRmZWU5MTU1YTQ1Nzg5ZWQ2YzBlY2U1MjlmZDg5ZDRmZTMzNmQ5YmEyOGE) if you want ask open questions about Unleash, feature toggling or discuss these topics in general.
- [Create a issue request](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash/issues/new) if you have found a bug or have ideas on how to improve Unleash.
- [Follow Unleash on Twitter](https://twitter.com/getunleash) if you want to stay updated on the latest progress of the Unleash project.
# In the media
- [The Code Kitchen Episode 7: Feature flags with Unleash](https://share.fireside.fm/episode/zD-4e4KI+Pr379KBv) (English)
- [Utviklerpodden, 1 - Feature Flags og Unleash med Fredrik Oseberg](https://pod.space/utviklerpodden/feature-flags-og-unleash-med-fredrik-oseberg) (Norwegian)
- [Node Weekly issue 380](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/380)
- [Console 42 - The open-source newsletter](https://console.substack.com/p/console-42)
- [This Week in Rust 340](https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2020/05/27/this-week-in-rust-340/)
- [Unleash-hosted - Unleash as a Service](https://www.unleash-hosted.com)
- [Medium blog](https://medium.com/unleash-hosted)
- [Blog: Unleash your features gradually!](http://bytes.schibsted.com/unleash-features-gradually/)
- [Presentation: Unleash your features gradually!](http://ivarconr.github.io/feature-toggles-presentation/sch-dev-lunch-2017/#1)
- http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureToggle.html