Policy driven flight management

A computing device to provide policy driven flight management, the computing device comprising:

• a memory configured to store instructions;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to execute a hosted service in conjunction with the instructions stored in the memory, wherein the hosted service comprises:
• a flight state machine configured to:
• receive a flight request associated with a feature of the hosted service;
• and
• in response to receipt of the flight request:
• retrieve a policy associated with rollout of the feature from a policy store, wherein the rollout includes one or more deployment environments;
• determine a state of the flight;
• determine a deployment state of the feature;
• and
• initiate or continue deployment of the feature for a current deployment environment or initiate deployment of the feature in a next deployment environment based on the policy, the state of the flight, and the deployment state of the feature.

A computer readable memory device with instructions stored thereon to provide policy driven flight management, the instructions comprising:

• receiving a flight request associated with a feature of a hosted service;
• and
• in response to receiving the flight request:
• retrieving a policy associated with rollout of the feature from a policy store, wherein the rollout includes one or more deployment environments;
• determining a flight state;
• determining a deployment state of the feature;
• and
• initiating or continuing deployment of the feature for a current deployment environment or initiating deployment of the feature in a next deployment environment based on the policy, the flight state, and the deployment state of the feature.