Getting started with App Configuration

IBM Cloud® App Configuration is a centralized feature management and configuration service for use with web and mobile applications, microservices, and distributed environments. Instrument your applications with App Configuration SDKs, and use the App Configuration dashboard or App Configuration administrator API to define features flags or properties, which are organized into collections and targeted to segments. Change feature flag states in the cloud to activate or deactivate features in your application or environment, often without restarting. You can also manage the properties for distributed applications centrally. App Configuration also provides the option to enable or disable configuration aggregation. It facilitates a Cloud Governance SME with up-to-date configuration data of IBM Cloud resources in one place so that comprehensive information is available for governance and compliance initiatives.

App Configuration currently offers four pricing plans: Lite, Basic, Standard, and Enterprise.

You need an IBM Cloud® account. If you don't have an account, create one here. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

The basic steps that get you started:

1. Create an App Configuration service instance

2. Create a collection

3. Integrate App Configuration service SDKs

4. Create segments

5. Target feature flags to segments or Target properties to segments

6. Target collections to feature flags or Target collections to properties

7. Enable feature flag (ON/OFF).

8. Enable Configuration Aggregator (ON/OFF).