flagd Sidecar — file source

flagd Sidecar — file source An architecture diagram generated by Archify. App Container · calls OpenFeature SDK · Application Pod App Container calls OpenFeature SDK flagd Sidecar · localhost :8013 · Application Pod · focal flagd Sidecar localhost :8013 focal Projected flags · ConfigMap volume · Application Pod Projected flags ConfigMap volume OpenFeature Operator · mutating webhook · Architecture component OpenFeature Operator mutating webhook :8013 read file injects sidecar Application Pod Legend Backend Database Cloud

Sidecar mode

  • • Local RPC; measure resource use and latency
  • • One daemon per application Pod
  • • Shared configuration can still affect many Pods

Configuration

  • • Use enabled and featureflagsource Pod annotations
  • • File mode does not require flagd to watch the Kubernetes API