Getting started with GitLab feature flags in Python

This post details the integration of the Unleash Python SDK with GitLab's feature flags API to control feature releases in a Flask application. It explains how to set up feature flags in GitLab, obtain project-specific Unleash credentials (API URL and Instance ID), and configure the Python application using environment variables. The core of the integration involves initializing the `UnleashClient` which fetches and caches flag definitions locally for fast, offline evaluation via `is_enabled()`. It also demonstrates how to pass user context for targeted strategies and shows the real-time effect of toggling flags in the GitLab UI on the running application.