CI/CD & GitOps Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Oct 19, 2025 4 min read

Shift-Right Testing With Feature Flags

Test in production with flags.

Idea

Deploy code; gate behind flag.

Real production traffic; bounded blast radius.

Ramp

1% → 10% → 50% → 100%.

Watch metrics each step.

When

Risky changes; uncertain code paths.

Real signal.