Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Harness AI: The Platform for Everything After Code

Harness AI brings enterprise-grade speed, security, and stability by unifying intelligence across testing, security, deployment, and optimization, i.e., for all stages after code generation, delivering a single, adaptive platform for the future of software delivery.

Modernize To An AI DevOps Platform in One Day: The Case for Moving Beyond Jenkins

Migrating off Jenkins has always been a daunting task. But, with patented technology from Harness, you can migrate off Jenkins and modernize DevOps in a one day to a future-proof AI DevOps platform.

AI in Database DevOps: From Manual Bottlenecks to Autonomous Change Management

Discover how AI is transforming Database DevOps with automated changelogs, faster deployments, and reduced production risks.

Rego 101: Policy Driven DevOps

Learn how to use OPA to ensure that your DevOps team follows best practices when releasing software to production. Then, dive deep in how to write Rego policies in Harness.

Confidently Ship Reusable OpenTofu and Terraform Modules

Learn how to confidently ship reusable OpenTofu and Terraform modules without risking registry-wide outages. This guide covers real-world failure examples, the benefits of integration testing, and practical CI/CD workflows to ensure every shared module is secure, stable, and ready for scale.

Mastering Windows Command Probes in Harness Chaos

Learn to set up Windows chaos infrastructure and create command probes in Harness Chaos. Complete guide with step-by-step instructions and examples.

Top Open Source Software Deployment Tools in 2025

A review of open source deployment automation tools and where they fit into the toolchain.

Why Securing Artifacts Is Critical for Software Supply Chain Security

Artifacts are often overlooked in software security. Learn how to protect them with signing, scanning, and policy enforcement across your SDLC.

Unlocking Innovation: Harness Q2 Feature Releases That Accelerate Your DevOps Journey

Explore Q2 updates from Harness, including GitOps UX improvements, smarter rollbacks, Lambda canary support, and more across your delivery pipelines.

Improving Liquibase Developer Experience with Harness Database DevOps Automated Change Generation

Boost your Liquibase development workflow with Harness Database DevOps. Learn how automated changeset generation streamlines schema changes, improves governance, and enhances developer experience across all environments.

State vs Script Migrations in Modern Database DevOps

Learn how Harness Database DevOps blends state and script-based migrations to ensure safe, automated, and repeatable database deployments in CI/CD.

A WINning Combination: Harness Honored with Inaugural Wiz Integrations (WIN) Partner Award!

Harness is honored to be recognized by our partners Wiz.

Raising the Bar for Developer Experience and Security in Harness Code & CI

Smarter CI, stricter Git controls. New in Harness: tag rules, Maven and Kotlin intelligence, favorites, and repo audit logs.

Harness AI Ranks #2 on SWE‑bench Verified - Powering the Future of Autonomous Code Fixes

Harness AI achieved #2 spot on the SWE-Bench Verified leaderboard by autonomously solving real-world GitHub software issues, powering fast, reliable AI-assisted software delivery.

Your DevOps Stack is Too Complicated. Fix It.

Fix complex DevOps toolchain and reduce developer friction with strategic principles like golden paths

How Harness is Using AI to Simplify Chaos Engineering Adoption

Discover how Harness AI Reliability Agent uses AI to automate chaos experiments and make reliability testing accessible to any team.

Harness AI Gets Smarter: Create DevOps Workflows Based on Enterprise Standards

Introducing new agentic AI capabilities for Harness AI that makes automated and contextual DevOps workflows easy to create.

Scaling Expertise - Instructor Led Training - 1000th Student Trained

We have just crossed over our 1000th student who has been trained.

Harness Expands Infrastructure as Code Management with Powerful Reusability Features for Greater Scalability

Harness IaCM adds reusability with Module Registry & Workspace Templates for faster, scalable, and secure infrastructure delivery.

Flexible Governance: Solving the "All or Nothing" Problem in Pipeline Templates

Tired of pipeline sprawl? Learn how Harness's unique "Insert Blocks" allow platform teams to create flexible templates, consolidating thousands of pipelines into a manageable few while maintaining strong governance.

Harness launches MCP tools to enhance its AI powered Chaos Engineering Capabilities

Chaos Tools on Harness MCP Server provide the opportunity to do the resilience testing using AI Agents and AI Tools with natural language prompts. Users can discover the resilience test capabilities, learn more about them and run the tests to measure the resilience data of the business critical applications or services. Chaos Tools lay the foundation for AI Powered Chaos Engineering using Harness in the Enterprise's journey towards building a strong resilience testing culture.

Harness Receives Patent for Cloud AutoStopping: A New Standard for Intelligent Cost Optimization

Harness’s patented Cloud AutoStopping technology uses intelligent automation to eliminate idle cloud costs, helping organizations save up to 70% without manual effort or disruption.

Harness STO + Checkmarx One: Orchestrating Security Scanning in your CI Pipeline

Automate security scans and enforce policies across your pipelines with Harness STO and Checkmarx One - seamless, scalable, and built for DevSecOps.

How Git Strategy Can Break Your Database Pipeline

Learn why per-environment Git branching breaks database deployments and how a trunk-based, context-driven GitOps approach restores reliability, speed, and confidence.

Announcing Harness AI Test Automation: The Future of End-to-End Testing Is Here!

Make testing easier to create and maintain with GenAI

What’s New in Harness Open Source v3.2.0: PR Workflows, Git LFS, and Smarter Automations

The Harness Open Source v3.2.0 release brings meaningful quality-of-life updates for Git users, platform engineers, and DevOps teams. With support for Git LFS, PR reverts, smarter review automation, and stronger commit identity enforcement, this update sharpens both developer experience and operational discipline. Whether you're wrangling binaries or enforcing governance in your CI/CD pipelines, v3.2.0 helps you ship with confidence.

Engineer-led Experimentation to Optimize Infrastructure

Discover how engineers can utilize feature flags to run experiments, validate infrastructure choices, and build performant applications.

Database DevOps: Lessons Learned from Manual Migration Hell

Discover how Harness DB DevOps enhances Liquibase workflows by automating SQL migrations for faster, safer, and more reliable database deployments.

New Harness IDP Release, Giving Teams a Smarter Way to Power Developer Portals at Scale

New Harness IDP release extends the Backstage framework for enterprise scale with powerful new features for control, security, and developer adoption.

Getting Continuous Deployment Right: A Practical Guide

Discover top continuous deployment tools to enhance your DevOps workflow and boost application delivery speed.

Harness Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025

Harness is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025 - recognizing our AI-driven vision to reduce engineering toil in the entire SLDC

Understanding APM Probes: How to Monitor Your Apps During Chaos Experiments

Learn how APM Probes enable objective measurement during chaos experiments by integrating with monitoring systems like Prometheus, AppDynamics, and Splunk to validate application resilience in Kubernetes environments.

Harness Blue-Green Traffic Shifting for AWS ECS, ASG & Spot Elastigroup

Harness Blue-Green Traffic Shifting introduces a progressive rollout mechanism that incrementally directs traffic between your blue and green environments, minimizing risk and enabling real-time validation.

Meet Harness’ Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: A Smarter Way for AI to Run Your DevOps Workflows

Fidelity's OpenTofu Migration: A DevOps Success Story Worth Studying

Case study of Fidelity's migration from Terraform to OpenTofu

How Top Engineering Teams Use Software Engineering Insights to Drive Measurable Business Impact

Opinionated, role-based engineering insights connect metrics to business value, optimize workflows, and drive measurable impact with Harness SEI.

Where Developers Spend Time (vs. Where They Should Be)

A review of Microsoft’s recent study, “Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era”

10000th PR on Harness Developer Hub

Celebrating 10,000 PRs on Harness Developer Hub – transforming docs into a living product with a developer-first, docs-as-code approach.

The Latest Q1 GitOps Enhancements from Harness

Explore all the latest GitOps features from Q1 2025-sync updates, rollback support, OpenShift integration, and improved visibility.

Automating Environment-Specific Verification Queries with Liquibase and Harness Database DevOps

Automate environment-aware database verifications using Liquibase and Harness to ensure safe, consistent changes across all environments.

Q1 2025 CD Product Update: All the Latest Features Delivered by Harness Continuous Delivery

Explore all the major features shipped in Q1 2025 from Harness—including Kubernetes diff previews, ECS Blue-Green traffic shifting, flexible Helm deployments, and enhanced GitOps workflows. This roundup highlights how these updates simplify deployments and improve governance across your delivery pipeline.

DevSecOps in the Age of AI – Assess Your Readiness Now

Explore how AI is reshaping DevSecOps and assess your organization's readiness with our updated Engineering Excellence Maturity Assessment. This assessment has been redesigned to tackle modern software development lifecycle, security, and productivity challenges.

Bridging the Gap: Empowering Product Teams with Seamless Experimentation

Collaboration between Product Managers and Engineers on experimentation yields improved results.

Harness University Growth - Harness Certified Experts - 3000th Certification Issued

Harness issued our 3000th certification in the Harness Certified Expert Certifications.

Elite Engineering Teams Don’t Guess—They Prove Impact

Harness SEI gives engineering leaders actionable insights to prove impact, boost efficiency, and protect creativity by eliminating guesswork.

Using Feature Flags with Open Telemetry

Learn how to use feature flags with Open Telemetry to improve observability following a step by step example.

Introducing Traceable Cloud WAAP: Built for the Way Applications Work Today

Discover Traceable Cloud WAAP, the first unified DevSecOps innovation from Harness + Traceable. Purpose-built to secure modern, API-driven applications with deep context, real-time protection, and seamless deployment across any environment.

Top Challenges in Database DevOps

Modernize database deployments with CI/CD, governance, and performance insights—eliminate risk and deploy database changes with confidence.

Harness Named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for GitOps

Harness was named a Leader in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for GitOps, earning top scores for features, innovation, and enterprise readiness. See why we lead the way.

Early 2025 Harness CD Enhancements

Harness is continuously innovating to make deployments faster, easier, and more reliable with powerful new features and enhancements.

The Executive Playbook: Communicating Engineering Metrics for Maximum Business Impact

Engineering leaders need to communicate metrics that drive business outcomes. This playbook explores how CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical leaders can leverage Harness SEI to translate engineering performance into executive-aligned insights, improving efficiency, productivity, and strategic influence.

8 Essential Questions to Boost Developer Productivity

Transform your development team with expert insights on measuring productivity, implementing effective metrics, and leveraging AI to accelerate software delivery.

Persona-Based Metrics: Revolutionize Your Software Engineering Team Performance

Transform software teams with targeted metrics for each role - boosting productivity, aligning goals, and driving data-based improvements.

Harness Cloud: The Ultimate Managed Build Infrastructure for Fast, Secure CI

Discover how Harness Cloud accelerates CI with 8X faster builds, secure on-prem integrations, and built-in governance. Run builds on any language, any OS—effortlessly.

Building a Robust Engineering Metrics Program

Software teams need data to improve. Learn how to transform raw data into actionable objectives and key results (OKRs & KPIs).

4 Myths, 4 Realities About Experimentation

Uncover the truth about software experimentation as we debunk common myths and reveal how it accelerates development, improves insights, and reduces risk—making it an essential tool for engineers and product managers driving innovation and safe rollouts.

Resilience Testing Your Applications Under Load Using Grafana K6

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Chaos Engineering—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

Optimizing Bazel Projects with Harness CI Intelligence

Speed up Bazel builds with Harness CI’s automatic remote caching and Build Intelligence, reducing build times by up to 4x with zero manual setup.

GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack: tj-actions/changed-files - Impact Assessment and Mitigation Guidance

Uncover the risks of the tj-actions/changed-files attack and see how Harness SCS and Traceable provide proactive protection against supply chain threats.

OpenID Connect (OIDC): A Smarter Way to Secure Pipeline Deployments

OpenID Connect (OIDC) enhances pipeline security by enabling secure authentication and authorization without storing long-lived credentials. By leveraging OIDC, CI/CD pipelines can dynamically obtain temporary access tokens, reducing the risk of credential leaks and improving overall security posture. This approach ensures seamless, scalable, and automated access management for cloud-native deployments.

Elevating Pipeline Visibility: Harness Pipeline Notifications for Datadog

Unlock DevOps insights! Integrate Harness pipeline events into Datadog for real-time monitoring

Platform Engineering: Beyond the Trough of Disillusionment

Platform engineering's evolution beyond the trough of disillusionment, focusing on product mindset and business outcomes rather than just technology.

Large Segments, Targeted Impact: Controling Feature Rollouts at Scale

Feature management and experimentation with built-in “Large Segments” helps ensure safe, efficient, and effective targeted releases.

Accelerating Gradle Builds with Harness CI Build Intelligence

Discover how Harness CI optimizes Gradle builds with Build Intelligence, reducing build times and improving resource usage. Benchmark tests show Harness CI delivers up to 6x faster builds compared to GitHub Actions.

Elixir SDK Is Available for Feature Management & Experimentation

The new Elixir SDK enables teams to integrate Harness feature flagging and event tracking directly into their Elixir applications.

Step-by-Step Guide to Regrettably Maintaining a DIY Feature Flag Tool

If you've decided to build and maintain a homegrown feature flag solution, here's a little guide on what to expect: complexity, hidden costs, and a drain on resources.

Linux Resilience Testing with Harness Chaos Engineering

Ready to embrace resilience testing? These five Linux resilience tests are just the beginning. Keep testing, keep learning, and make your systems resilient! 💪🐧🔥

Flagship 2025: The Feature Management & Experimentation Summit–Now On Demand

If you missed our premier summit dedicated to the future of feature management and experimentation, you can still catch all the thought-provoking sessions at your leisure.

Mobile DevSecOps: Optimizing Mobile App Delivery with Automation and CI/CD

Discover how Mobile DevSecOps transforms app development by integrating security throughout the CI/CD pipeline. Learn how automation tools like Fastlane and Harness CI help mobile teams overcome environment management challenges, reduce build times, and deliver secure, high-quality apps faster to market.

Announcing Harness DevOps Essentials: Your Complete DevOps Platform to Supercharge Your Productivity

Harness DevOps Essentials is a new licensing model designed to provide a unified, scalable, and enterprise-ready DevOps platform. It consolidates key DevOps capabilities—including Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Security Test Orchestration (STO), and Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM)—into a single package, eliminating tool sprawl and simplifying procurement. This model enhances productivity, accelerates deployments, and strengthens security while maintaining predictable costs.

End-to-end testing should not be guesswork

Discover why traditional end-to-end testing based on assumptions falls short and learn how data-driven testing using real user behavior can improve software quality.

Harness Completes Split Integration and Adds New Features to Expand Feature Management and Experimentation Offering

Discover how Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) integrates Split to streamline feature releases, experiments, and insights in your DevOps workflow.

Exciting News: We’ve Merged Harness and Traceable To Create A New Leader In Secure Software Delivery

Harness and Traceable to merge to create a new leader in secure software delivery.

Harness IaCM Module Registry

Learn how to enable and use OpenTofu and Terraform Module Registry in Harness IaCM to store and manage reusable infrastructure components.

Harness Continuous Delivery Q4 Updates: More Power, More Control

Discover the latest Harness CD & GitOps updates, enhancing deployments, governance, and scalability

Using Feature Management & Experimentation to Make an AI-Model More Human

Discover how HeySam leverages Harness Feature Management & Experimentation to fine-tune AI responses, making them sound more human and tailored.

Harness Adds 8 New Features to Redefine Resiliency with AI-Powered Chaos Engineering

Discover how Harness Chaos Engineering is redefining resilience with AI-powered automation and next-gen features. Learn about seamless service discovery, tailored chaos experiments, and intelligent safeguards that help teams proactively tackle system weaknesses, scale resilience practices, and minimize downtime.

It takes Generative AI to test Generative AI

Explore how Harness AI Assertions revolutionize testing for generative AI applications, ensuring accuracy and reliability with cutting-edge techniques.

Speed Up Your CI Pipelines by 8X with Docker Layer Caching

Discover how Docker Layer Caching in Harness CI can dramatically accelerate your software development workflow, reducing build times by up to 8X and optimizing infrastructure costs. Learn key strategies for efficient CI/CD pipeline performance and infrastructure optimization.

Introducing Harness Incident Response - Coming Soon

Most incidents start with change—so why manage them in isolation? Learn how Harness Incident Response connects the dots between alerts, changes, and workflows, powered by an AI SRE working alongside your team. Discover a smarter, more collaborative way to prevent, triage, and resolve issues faster, all while staying in control of your entire software delivery lifecycle.

Experiment Before You Launch: a Lesson Learned from the Sonos Debacle

What can we learn from the botched Sonos launch? Next time you’re pressured to release software quickly, maximize safety and impact with experimentation.

How to Create Multi Source Applications with Harness GitOps

Learn about the recent introduction of multi-source application support, where you can now configure and manage applications that pull from multiple repositories.

Integrating Chaos Engineering with AI/ML: Proactive Failure Prediction

In this blog, we explore how AI/ML can be integrated with chaos engineering to predict failures and take proactive steps to address the vulnerabilities uncovered.

Transforming End-to-End Testing with Generative Agentic Workflows

Discover how Generative AI and agentic workflows revolutionize E2E testing, overcoming LLM-assisted coding bottlenecks. Learn about automated intent-based testing, simplified test creation, and visual testing advancements.

Managing Environment Variables and Modules Across Repositories: A Strategic Guide

Discover how separating environment variables and reusable modules into dedicated repositories can improve security, streamline collaboration, and scale your infrastructure codebase effectively. Learn practical strategies and explore how tools like Harness simplify this process.

Transforming Pipeline Automation with Event Relay Webhook Triggers in Harness

This blog walks you through the advantages of this feature and how you can configure it for a seamless Continuous Delivery experience.

How to Migrate Off Jenkins: The Road to Modern CI/CD

Learn how to migrate off Jenkins with a step-by-step playbook. Discover how to audit, standardize, and modernize your CI/CD pipelines to meet today’s cloud-native and scalable software delivery demands.

Broken Trust: What Harness’ 2024 Report Reveals About Software Failures and Consumer Frustration

Uncover findings from Harness’ 2024 Software Failure Sentiment Report on outages, consumer frustration, and the demand for software reliability.

2025 DevOps Predictions: Code Quality Crackdowns, AI Security Risks, and Cross-Functional Engineering Teams

Harness, the AI-Native Software Delivery Platform company, today released its predictions for 2025. Field CTO Nick Durkin comments on five trends that will shake up the software development industry in 2025.

Spreadsheets vs IDP Scorecards for Service Health & Initiative Tracking

This blog will go over why you will see more value in IDP Scorecards vs using Spreadsheets for tracking Service Health & Initiatives.

The Four Stages of Infrastructure Automation

Discover the journey of infrastructure automation in this blog, from its early days of version control to advanced self-service platforms with robust governance. Learn how tools like OpenTofu revolutionize infrastructure management, enabling consistency, scalability, and innovation while reducing complexity and risk.

Evaluating Internal Developer Portals: A Comprehensive Guide

Evaluating different Internal Developer Portals can be cumbersome. There are so many things to think about. Let's get into the most important things.

Top 7 Cloud Cost Reporting Strategies Every FinOps Team Should Know

Cloud cost reporting is essential for optimizing cloud expenses, improving financial visibility, and making data-driven decisions. Learn best practices for cloud cost management and how tools like Harness CCM can enhance budgeting, forecasting, and resource optimization.

Why Databases For DevOps?

Discover how integrating databases into your DevOps practices can streamline workflows, automate deployments, and reduce errors. Learn how Harness Database DevOps empowers teams to accelerate database changes with confidence and visibility.

Rethinking Blue-Green Deployments for Infrastructure

Modern blue-green deployments enable safe infrastructure evolution by testing and optimizing configurations without disrupting production.

KubeCon 2024 Recap: The Future of AI and Kubernetes in Cloud-Native Ecosystems

Discover the latest AI and Kubernetes advancements from KubeCon North America 2024. Dive into sessions on scaling AI workloads, GPU scheduling, and cloud-native infrastructure, and see how Harness’s AI-Native Software Delivery platform is enhancing DevOps productivity and security. Explore insights from keynotes, AI-driven workflows, and co-located events that are shaping the future of cloud-native tech.

Auto Remediate Security Vulnerabilities with Harness AI

Discover how Harness AI integration with STO accelerates vulnerability remediation with automated, actionable guidance across diverse security scanners.

Unlocking Cloud Efficiency: IaCM Meets Cost Management

Discover how integrating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Cloud Cost Management can help predict, monitor, and control cloud expenses. Learn strategies for cost optimization, automated policies, and real-time insights to streamline your cloud operations and avoid budget overruns.

Database Refactoring: How to Safely Move a Database Column

This blog post will walk you through a real-world example of how to safely alter a database schema to support new requirements with 0 downtime, data integrity, and the ability to rollback if needed.

Cloud Cost Management best practices for multi-cloud environments

Explore top cloud cost management best practices, from anomaly detection to workload rightsizing, to help you minimize cloud spend while optimizing resources. Learn actionable tips for better cloud cost visibility and efficiency.