Harness Introduces AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform Support

AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp terraform have quickly become the de-facto standard for cloud infrastructure provisioning and automation. With Harness, you can now integrate those scripts and templates into your deployment pipelines.

By Steve Burton / October 18, 2018

Infrastructure automation (aka provisioning) is a big deal for cloud-native applications and environments. Automating the provisioning and decommissioning of infrastructure allows you to scale up and down on-the-fly while reaping the cost benefits of on-demand compute. By integrating. […]

Building A Cloud-Native Deployment Pipeline In 2018

By Steve Burton  /  October 10, 2018

What is a Deployment Pipeline? A deployment pipeline is basically an automated process where software artifacts are promoted and verified across one or more environments (stages) to ensure they are ready for delivery to end-users (customers). Probably one. […]

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4 Reasons Your Jenkins Pipelines Are Brittle

By Steve Burton  /  September 27, 2018

When we first launched Harness back in October 2017, one of our initial challenges was educating the market on the difference between Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) solutions. At that time, I wrote a quick comparison blog. […]

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Harness Introduces LDAP Support

By Steve Burton  /  September 18, 2018

You’ve got a new shiny toy and you want to share it with everyone in your organization. You ask your vendor “Do you support LDAP?” and they quietly reply “It’s on our roadmap” before shrinking into the floor. […]

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Harness Extends Continuous Verification
to Bugsnag

By Steve Burton  /  September 17, 2018

What is Bugsnag? In short, Bugsnag analyzes events from application run-times, specifically errors and exceptions so you can debug stacktraces in seconds. Think of it as application reliability or stability monitoring. Data collection is less wide than the. […]

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Harness Continuous Delivery for Red Hat OpenShift

By Steve Burton  /  September 5, 2018

What is OpenShift? Red Hat® OpenShift® is a comprehensive enterprise-grade application platform, built for containers with Kubernetes. For customers who invested in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it’s an easy way for them to run and manage their container-based. […]

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SoulCycle Sets Personal Record with Harness Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  August 6, 2018

About SoulCycle SoulCycle is a 45-minute indoor cycling class that features high-intensity cardio, muscle-sculpting strength training, and rhythm-based choreography. Its customers consider SouclCycle classes to be much more than just a workout; they see them as a powerful. […]

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Enabling Continuous Delivery
as-a-Service In Your Organization

By Steve Burton  /  July 27, 2018

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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Harness Product Update for May/June 2018

By Steve Burton  /  June 18, 2018

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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Deployment Scripting In 2018 Is Not Automation

By Steve Burton  /  May 22, 2018

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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Harness Extends Continuous Verification
To Datadog

By Steve Burton  /  May 4, 2018

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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To Helm and Back with
Harness Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  April 26, 2018

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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10 Signs You Don’t Do Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  April 18, 2018

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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Introducing Flow Control For
Microservice Deployments

By Steve Burton  /  April 12, 2018

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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How Harness Eliminates False Positives
with Neural Nets

By Sriram Parthasarathy  /  April 9, 2018

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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Harness Product Update for April 2018

By Steve Burton  /  April 3, 2018

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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McLaren Automotive and
Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  April 2, 2018

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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Harness Delivers RBAC
For Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  March 23, 2018

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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Is Kubernetes All You Need
For Continuous Delivery?

By Steve Burton  /  March 1, 2018

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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Harness Introduces
Continuous Delivery As Code

By Steve Burton  /  February 20, 2018

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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Harness Extends Continuous Verification To Dynatrace

By Steve Burton  /  February 15, 2018

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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Where Are The DevOps Unicorns Today?

By Steve Burton  /  February 13, 2018

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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Harness vs. Spinnaker for Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  February 12, 2018

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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Real-Time Analytics For Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  February 8, 2018

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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Deployment Strategies
For Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  February 2, 2018

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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Harness and Jenkins – A Quick Comparison

By Steve Burton  /  January 30, 2018

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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2017 – A Good or Great Year For DevOps?

By Steve Burton  /  January 25, 2018

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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How Build.com Rolls Back Production in 32 Seconds

By Steve Burton  /  January 16, 2018

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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The DevOps Tools Lifecycle Mesh for 2018

By Steve Burton  /  January 9, 2018

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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Managing Secrets Across Continuous Delivery Pipelines

By Raghu Singh  /  November 30, 2017

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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Build vs. Buy – The Cost of Implementing Continuous Delivery

By Steve Burton  /  November 21, 2017

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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Jobvite Reduces Deployment Time by 90% with Harness

By Steve Burton  /  November 15, 2017

For those not familiar, Jobvite is an industry leader in recruiting software that helps emerging, mid-market, and enterprise companies hire top talent easily, efficiently, and effectively. Based in San Mateo, California, Jobvite provides a SaaS recruiting platform for. […]

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Reinventing Continuous Delivery at AWS: reInvent

By Greg Howard  /  November 13, 2017

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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Continuous Delivery for AWS Lambda Applications

By Nick Durkin  /  November 7, 2017

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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Another Continuous Delivery Blog

By Steve Burton  /  October 26, 2017

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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We’ve Arrived

By Jyoti Bansal  /  October 24, 2017

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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