OpenFeature Summit NA 2025
as the organisers put it
OpenFeature Summit North America 2025 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel.
who it's for
platform engineers, backend developers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, observability engineers, engineering managers, cloud architects
topics
OpenFeature SDK evaluations; feature flag telemetry with OpenTelemetry; GitOps-friendly feature ops; policy-driven rollout gates; progressive rollouts and automated rollback; programmable CI pipelines with Dagger; provider integrations (LaunchDarkly); multicluster flag reconciliation with Flux and k0rdent; feature toggle deprecation policies; flag-driven observability traces
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Todd Baert | 07m |
Housekeeping covers a visible code of conduct, on-screen captioning and translation QR codes, coffee and bathrooms locations, and a reception tonight 5:30–6:30… | ||
| Doctor Flag: Into the Kubernetes Featureverse with k0rdent and OpenFeature | Prithvi Raj Venkat Raj | 24m |
Shows a concrete platform: OpenFeature plus k0rdent, Flux, flagd, Cluster API, OpenTelemetry and Grafana combine so feature states are versioned, governed and… | ||
| AI Ships Fast and Breaks Things — Feature Flags Keep It Controlled | Jonathan Norris | 27m |
AI-powered IDEs and background agents are producing hundreds of lines of code in seconds (examples: Cursor Composer 1, Windsurf SWE 1.5) and drive 47% more PRs… | ||
| Feature Flag-Driven Development… in Reverse | Robert Erez | 20m |
Feature toggles become the mechanism for safe removal rather than just launches: Octopus uses telemetry, granular toggles, staged rollouts and CI checks to… | ||
| From “What Broke?” To “What Changed?”: Unlocking Feature Flag Observability | Parth Suthar, Michael Beemer | 23m |
Argues that adding feature flag context into observability cuts Mean Time to Recovery by turning “what broke” into “what changed,” using OpenFeature hooks to… | ||
| Blueprint for Building Programmable CI Pipelines Using OpenFeature | Gaurav Saxena | 14m |
Platform engineers use OpenFeature to declaratively expose feature flags in Open Application Model manifests, convert flag projects into Crossplane-managed… | ||
| Skip the Deployment Queue: Automated Rollouts and Rollbacks Using OpenFeature | Ekansh Gupta, Shivay Lamba | 24m |
Demo builds an app that uses OpenFeature SDK to evaluate flags from a LaunchDarkly provider, emits flag evaluation events via OpenTelemetry tracing hooks to a… | ||
| ⚡Lightning Talk: No More If-Else Soup: Scalable Feature Flag Architecture With Design Patterns | Gaurika Poplai | 11m |
Claims that design patterns eliminate sprawling flag conditionals by treating flags as architectural inputs and shows concrete implementations: Strategy… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Todd Baert | 03m |
Highlights call out two recorded sessions linked by QR codes: one from Pete and one from Mike and Chris, worth watching for concrete demos. Announces upcoming… | ||
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