Blueprint for Building Programmable CI Pipelines Using OpenFeature
Talkat OpenFeature Summit NA 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 16:00· Building B | Level 2 | B213-214·
summary
Platform engineers use OpenFeature to declaratively expose feature flags in Open Application Model manifests, convert flag projects into Crossplane-managed resources via a custom operator, and gate rollouts with programmable CI built on Dagger. The pipeline enforces cosign image attestation, rejects vulnerable images with Kyverno-like policies, and captures OpenTelemetry traces to compare behavior across preview and production. Deployments roll out to controlled cohorts (example: 10% canary), and the system proves successful at preventing unsafe releases while preserving developer simplicity.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Programmable CI pipelines intro
- 2:26Centralized platform engineering
- 4:32Internal dev platforms with CNCF
- 7:22CI pipelines with Dagger security
- 9:51OpenFeature for feature flags
- 12:18Observability with OpenTelemetry
- 13:45Custom OM testing
- 14:05Q&A
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