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title: Foundational
'og:site\_name': Unleash Documentation
'og:title': Foundational - Unleash Academy
description: >-
Gain a baseline understanding of why to use Unleash in your development and a
general introduction to CI/CD. An understanding of Unleash anatomy and
architecture and how the different systems connect together.
keywords: >-
unleash academy, training, foundational, feature flags, architecture,
strategies, variants, a/b testing
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      Gain a baseline understanding of why to use Unleash in your development and a general introduction to CI/CD.
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        100% free and online
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        Learn at your own pace
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  **This Unleash Academy course is for all roles working with Unleash - Developers, Product owners, Leaders.**

  **Estimated time:** 75 min
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## Learning Objectives

Gain a baseline understanding of why to use Unleash in your development and a general introduction to CI/CD.
An understanding of Unleash anatomy and architecture and how the different systems connect together.

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**Intro to Feature Flags & Unleash**

* Feature flags - What they are & why to use them
* What is Unleash?

**Anatomy of Unleash**

* Covering the various components that exist within the Unleash system and how they interact with each other and with external applications. Components that include but not limited to: projects, environments, variants, feature flags --> strategies, tokens, tags, context

**Architecture overview**

* Unleash API, UI, SDKs, Proxy --> Edge (Proxy 2.0)

**How to use Unleash**

* Projects and Environments
* Flag creation and targeting
* Strategies, constraints, segments
* Variants (and environments), Strategy Variants
* Introduction to A/B Testing
* API tokens (Personal Access Tokens, client, frontend)

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## Course Detail

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## All courses

* [**Foundational**](/unleash-academy/foundational) - For all roles working with Unleash - Developers, Product owners, Leaders.
* [**Advanced for Developers**](/unleash-academy/advanced-for-devs) - For Developers only, after Foundational content has been reviewed
* [**Managing Unleash for DevOps/Admins**](/unleash-academy/managing-unleash-for-devops) - For DevOps, Platform leads and Admins only after Foundational content has been reviewed

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