Thinking of deploying microservices using Kubernetes? Chances are you'll run into Istio at some point. Here's a quick run down of Istio and how Harness supports this new technology.
“Just stick your app in a container and deploy it — its super easy, fast, scalable and portable” said everyone two years ago. Turns out deploying microservices in containers isn’t as easy as we first thought. “No problem,. […]
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At Harness we’re often asked, “What is the best practice for enabling Continuous Delivery across an organization?” Naturally, our response is: “Fire anyone who still does waterfall and immediately hire 10 DevOps engineers.” (I’m joking. Hiring 10 DevOps engineers. […]
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Taking scripts away from a DevOps engineer is a bit like taking expenses away from a sales rep; Defcon 1 is just around the corner. At Harness, we’re trying to simplify Continuous Delivery so that developers and DevOps. […]
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Deploying to production is a bit like dancing drunk in a dive bar. You have to do it, but it’s all about avoiding collateral damage (and downtime) at the end of the day. There are many deployment strategies. […]
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About iHerb iHerb has been in business since 1996 and is run from two distribution centers in California and Kentucky, USA. iHerb is a global eCommerce leader in bringing the best overall value in natural products to customers. […]
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Our engineering team has been getting ship done the past six weeks during May and June. Being a Continuous Delivery vendor, we’ve done roughly 1,900 deployments the past 30 days and have kept our velocity up while onboarding. […]
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About Ibotta As the largest consumer technology company headquartered in Denver, CO, Ibotta (“I bought a…”) is transforming the shopping experience by making it easy for consumers to earn cash back on everyday purchases through a single smartphone. […]
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Last week, AppDynamics announced a new partnership with Harness to help customers embrace continuous delivery and understand the business impact of every application deployment. Our integration at that time focused on the deployment and verification of specific application. […]
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Over the past year, I’ve talked Continuous Delivery with hundreds of teams around the world. I’ve also observed 50+ different deployment processes when customers have been kind enough to show me their current methodology and tooling. Now comes. […]
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It’s been a crazy 6 months since we came out of stealth. The Harness development team has grown to 25 engineers, and our platform support has evolved from Linux, Bare Metal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform. […]
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The most requested monitoring integrations from customers over the past year were: AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, and Datadog. Fifth most popular was Prometheus, the open-source software (OSS) project. Unlike Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software which has its own. […]
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About Vuclip Vuclip is a leading global technology-driven media company delivering on demand entertainment to emerging markets including India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Vuclip’s market success in on demand entertainment is built on its leadership. […]
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These days, it’s not uncommon for customers to use Cloud or infrastructure monitoring software across their dev, QA and production environments. Back in February, we announced support for Dynatrace to accompany our AppDynamics and New Relic APM support. Today, our. […]
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As good as Kuberenetes is, it’s not a magical silver bullet. Applications today are as complex as they have ever been. Despite the buzz around independent microservices, most architectures and services have many dependencies. Helm allows you to package. […]
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1. “Agile” and “Release” Are Used in Meetings Continuous Delivery doesn’t mean “release more than once a year or quarter”; it means deployments are continuous, never-ending, ongoing, nonstop – and so on. Agile was something dev teams aspired. […]
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Most organizations today are looking to break up their ‘vintage’ monolithic applications as they start to pursue Cloud, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. In some respects migrating to a microservices architecture is a pre-requisite for those initiatives. This blog. […]
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Analyzing Application Log Data With Harness For the past 10 months at Harness, we have been analyzing application log events to help customers detect anomalies and verify their production deployments. To do this our algorithms have been based. […]
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Below is a report of our own Continuous Delivery process over the past 30 days. We did 901 deployments (roughly 30/day) and 17% are failing, meaning we’re catching lots of defects/bugs before our code is pushed into production for. […]
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When one works in technology, it’s easy to assume these days that everything in life is built using Docker and Kubernetes. If you step outside our little tech-bubble world, though, there are actually quite a few examples of. […]
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Back in October last year, I published a blog around how Harness uses machine learning to auto-verify deployments by analyzing time-series metrics from APM solutions such as AppDynamics, New Relic, and Dynatrace, and also unstructured events from log. […]
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You wouldn’t build your own Jenkins – would you? Neither would you build your own CRM, Office or Email service. So why are the “cool” DevOps kids still building their own continuous delivery scripts, log analytics, and monitoring. […]
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Teammate: “Hey, what’s the login for that new tool we bought?” You: “Try admin/admin” Sound familiar? This may work fine for your monitoring tool, but it ain’t going to work for Continuous Delivery (CD) as-a-service across your organization. . […]
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Let’s face it–in 2018, it’s very uncool for any new hip tech startup to ship an on-premises version of their product. It’s a bit like Justin Bieber selling CDs or vinyl for his millennial following. Enterprises Still Require. […]
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One thing I hope you’ll never hear from anyone at Harness is this piece of vendor baloney: “If you purchase Harness, you’ll be unstoppable in your DevOps journey.” The team at Harness knows that vendors don’t create a. […]
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Kubernetes describes itself as “an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.” At face value, those descriptors are pretty broad and bad ass. You could be forgiven for thinking all you need these days for. […]
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In 2018, it’s no longer enough to have an amazingly simple, intuitive, and beautiful user interface. Configuration-as-code is the new user developer experience and it’s a mandatory feature, especially for selling to DevOps teams. So, without further ado, I’m. […]
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These days, it’s not uncommon for customers to use Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software across their dev, QA and production environments. A few weeks ago a large FS enterprise customer evaluated Harness for Continuous Delivery (CD) and said:. […]
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I attended my first DevOps Days event in Mountain View in 2011 (Fri & Sat morning) as a vendor. All I remember was John Willis doing his “State of DevOps” intro followed by various sessions on packaging, orchestration,. […]
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Updated: July 30th 2018 Spinnaker and Harness are two names that come up frequently when talking about Continuous Delivery. Truth is, competition and choice is a great thing for customers. It’s also a good thing for vendors too. […]
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According to Wikipedia, Analytics is the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. Vendors often confuse this term with “pie charts.” Analytics is about communicating information that is contextual, understood and relevant for a specific user for a specific. […]
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You might hear terms like “blue/green” and “canary” when it comes to the final act of deploying code in production. Pushing the deployment button these days is a bit like playing craps; you roll the dice and it’s. […]
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This blog came at the request of several customers who found our story compelling, but wanted to share it with a wider audience inside their organization including team members who use Jenkins. I’ll start by saying this: at. […]
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No matter how sound the plan, sometimes its always good to look at the results. I thought I’d do a bit of research to try and quantify the impact that DevOps initatives had in 2017. I’ve tried to. […]
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You’ve just deployed a new version of your service/app into production. You open your web browser and hit the live version in production. All looks well – or does it? You open Slack and post a question to. […]
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Even though Harness isn’t GA yet, we’re very fortunate to have several paying customers and partners. One of which is Build.com, who kindly shared a success story last week around how Harness is helping them move fast (in. […]
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Its the role, and quite frankly, the duty, of every DevOps vendor to create a visual one-off masterpiece that represents the DevOps tools landscape. XebiaLabs created its Periodic Table, CA created a tube map, and today I give. […]
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A few weeks back I got an email from Alan Shimel, the founder of DevOps.com, with the great news that Harness is a finalist in the awards category “Best New DevOps Solution Company.” This category is judged by. […]
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When we built AppDynamics almost ten years ago, the APM market laughed at us. “No way, heard all these claims before” — “You can’t do that, it’s cheating” — “BS, no way you can monitor production in 4. […]
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The recent news about uber being hacked was due to application source code containing unencrypted username/password information (which happened to be shared & stored on Github). It’s easy to be cynical about this breach but managing secrets across applications, environments. […]
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Continuous Delivery Pre-requisites Like anything in business, not everything can be solved with technology alone. Going from quarterly/monthly deployments to daily/hourly deployments isn’t just about automation. Your application architecture(s) and team(s) must be able to support the fundamentals. […]
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If you’re curious to see Harness up close and personal, above and beyond what you see on our amazing web site and Spielberg-level videos, please come and hang out with the Harness team at AWS: ReInvent from November. […]
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The first rule of being a software vendor? “Practice what you preach.” It’s a bit hypocritical to expect customers to buy your product if you’re not using it internally to solve the same real-world problems that they are. […]
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AWS Lambda is a web service you can use to build applications without having to worry about compute constraints or complexity. In order to use, simply upload your application code as Lambda functions and Lambda runs your code. […]
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Interested in turning your deployment canary into a cybernetic living organism? Awesome, this blog is for you. I’m guessing you’re probably thinking two things right now: Why would you want to apply ML to CD? How can you. […]
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Build.com is a pure-play internet retailer, ranked # 2 in the home improvement market behind Home Depot. As an eCommerce site, Build.com has the need to address issues quickly and without interruptions to customers. The CI/CD Initiative Approximately three years. […]
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I’d like to start this post declaring upfront that I’m an inpatient chap, with full appreciation for people who get #@&$ done quickly. As a tech evangelist (and former software engineer), delivery of innovation and product features is. […]
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Today, we officially launch Harness out of stealth. Harness is building the industry’s first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform that enables software engineering teams to deliver code to customer-facing applications rapidly, securely and without fear of failure. You can read. […]
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