Firebase Remote Config — How to manage Remote Config + CI CD for a corporate standard production project.
5 min readJan 16, 2021
Last updated on: Jan 17, 2021.
Topics Covered:
✦ Comparison between API vs Firebase CLI approach to manage RemoteConfig.
✦ Firebase CLI to manage Remote Config when when you don’t have access to Remote Config.
✦ GitLab CI/CD pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml) for managing Remote Config.
Firebase remote config is a very powerful feature that can bring magic to your applications may it be web or mobile.
- Remote config helps you set application configurations via firebase cloud console.
- There configurations can be updated/set on demand. It does not require any deployment process.
- Consider it like authoring content on CMS; change the required configuration and publish.
- Version history of the remote config is very detailed and tracing the changes are easy.
- Rollback to any previous version is very easy.
