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This section explains what roles are and how to manage them. Roles give you precise access control to everything in LaunchDarkly, including feature flags, projects, environments, metrics, and teams. Use them to enforce access policies that meet your exact needs. Each account member must have at least one role, which is a set of permissions assigned to an account member when they are invited to LaunchDarkly. You can assign account members additional roles to give them the exact set of permissions they need. An account member’s initial role is set when they’re invited to LaunchDarkly.

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Managing roles

Implementing roles is a four-step process. To implement a role:
  1. Understand how a role’s resources, scope, and actions determine what access the role provides. To learn more, read Member role concepts.
  2. Create a role, or find a LaunchDarkly-provided role that meets your needs. Topics in this section describe how:
  3. Create or update the policy for that role. Topics in this section describe how:
  4. Assign the role to an account member or team. To learn how, read Managing roles assignments.
Preset roles and creating your own roles are available to customers on select plansPreset roles and the ability to create your own roles are only available to customers on select plans. To learn more, read about our pricing. To upgrade your plan, contact Sales.