While attempting to run the swatch-metrics-hbi IQE tests locally, toggling feature flags appear to only be allowed when running with an environment of 'ephemeral'. This protection seems to be built into the feature-flag back-ends in iqe-core and may require a change to the core config to allow lenience when using the 'local' environment since I don't think we are allowed to override configuration at the core level.

Running the test_hbi_physical_x86_host_events from test_hbi_created_updated_events.py should fail as soon as it is run due to an attempt to toggle the swatch.swatch-metrics-hbi.emit-events feature flag.

This is needed for component testing swatch-metrics-hbi.  Worth reaching out to the feature flag folks to see if they have a pattern for this for local testing.

Done Criteria

• We have discussed with other teams (possible contact person for Unleash - Diego Noceda, and/or iqe core folks) to understand the path forward for supporting IQE local testing with unleash
• Subsequent cards are created for the actual implementation