Harness Blog

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

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

It takes Generative AI to test Generative AI

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.

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.

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.

Rethinking Blue-Green Deployments for Infrastructure

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Optimizing Query Performance for Large Datasets Powering Dashboards

This blog highlights our journey about how we fixed our looker powered dashboards with slow query performance to rapid dashboard loading times

Secure Builds from Vulnerability Detection: Harness Open Source and Chainguard Images for Dockerfiles

Learn how to secure your Dockerfile builds by detecting vulnerabilities early with Harness Open Source and Chainguard images. This guide shows you how to scan base images, fix security issues, and enhance your development pipeline with minimal effort.

Harness Continuous Delivery Q3 Updates

Discover Harness’s latest updates for Continuous Delivery & GitOps, including native Helm support, enhanced templating for efficient reuse, and advanced GitOps features like automated drift detection and improved rollback.

Use Chaos Engineering to Implement Cost Savings Strategies on AWS

This blog explores how organizations can use Chaos Engineering to support FinOps strategies for AWS, aiming to optimize cloud costs while maintaining system resilience. It highlights five top AWS cost-saving strategies—such as rightsizing compute resources and switching to Spot Instances—and explains how Chaos Engineering experiments can validate these optimizations, ensuring they won’t negatively impact application performance.

The Future is Cloudy: Exploring the Benefits of Cloud Development Environments

This blog will teach you about what Cloud Development Environments also known as CDE's are. You will also learn about the benefit of CDE's, and why CDE's matter. 

OpenTofu: The Open-Source Alternative to Terraform

The blog discusses OpenTofu, an open-source fork of Terraform that maintains a community-driven development approach and fully open-source licensing, in contrast with Terraform's shift to more restrictive licensing. OpenTofu aims to provide a flexible and customizable infrastructure-as-code solution while preserving the open-source ethos. Copy Retry

So what exactly is Harness Open Source and why should you care?

Harness Open Source unifies code hosting, CI/CD automation, and artifact management, streamlining the entire software lifecycle. Gitspaces™️ provide ready-to-use development environments, while robust CI/CD pipelines automate testing and deployments with built-in secret management for secure operations. The Artifact Registry centralizes storage, simplifying release management and ensuring consistent workflows. All-in-one, Harness Open Source enables efficient, end-to-end development and delivery.

Code Repository Best Practices

These source code management best practices can help developers manage their development pipelines securely and efficiently.

How Do You Build a Successful DevOps Ecosystem

Learn how to build a successful DevOps ecosystem with Harness best practices. Discover tips and strategies to enhance your CI/CD pipeline

Cloud Cost Automation Explained: How These 11 Tools Can Help You Save Big

Discover the best cloud cost automation tools that can optimize cloud spending, improve resource utilization, and boost financial efficiency. Learn how AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Harness CCM, and more help streamline cloud cost management for DevOps teams and organizations.

Best Artifact Repository Tools

Discover the best artifact repository tools to streamline your software development, enhance collaboration, and ensure consistent deployments. Learn more now!

5 Best Practices for Building Effective Internal Developer Portals

Learn about the 5 best practices for building an effective Internal Developer Portal. How to prioritize Developer Experience (DX), focusing on automation and governance, and more! 

Unify Cloud Cost Visibility with Harness CCM Backstage Plugin

Discover how Harness's CCM Plugin for Backstage unifies cloud cost management with your developer portal.

Navigating the Pitfalls of Internal Developer Portals: What You Need to Know

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) have emerged as vital tools for enhancing developer efficiency and collaboration. However, like any technology, they come with their own set of challenges. Here, we’ll explore some common pitfalls associated with IDPs and how to avoid them, ensuring you derive maximum value from your investment.

Gitpod SaaS is being deprecated. What are your options?

Gitpod SaaS is being deprecated. Harness Cloud Development Environments (CDE) provide all the same capabilities of Gitpod and more and are available as SaaS.

Understanding CI/CD Platforms: The backbone of modern DevOps

Learn about CI/CD platforms and pipelines

Leveraging Data in Your CICD Pipeline: A Comprehensive Guide

In this blog, we'll explore several use cases that showcase how to integrate data and databases into your CI/CD pipeline. This blog provides a high-level overview of this end-to-end story and will link to more detailed blogs on this topic as we add them to the series.

What is Cloud Cost Governance?

Discover the essentials of Cloud Cost Governance, a strategic framework for managing and optimizing cloud spending. Learn how it ensures financial accountability, cost efficiency, and alignment with business goals while utilizing cloud resources effectively.

Understanding Chaos Engineering and Its Role in Kubernetes Resilience

Explore how Chaos Engineering strengthens Kubernetes resilience by proactively testing failure scenarios. Learn the best practices for injecting chaos into your Kubernetes environments, the importance of fault tolerance, and how tools like Harness Chaos Engineering automate resilience testing to ensure high availability and reduced downtime.

Power of pipelines + Harness chaos engineering

Leverage the benefits of pipelines and Harness chaos engineering, such as approvals and notifications by executing chaos experiments in a pipeline.

What is a DevOps Life Cycle

Understand how the DevOps lifecycle can benefit your team.

Introducing Harness Certified Implementation Engineer

Introducing a new certification path for Partner; becoming a Harness Certified Implementation Engineer.

Introducing Harness Cloud Development Environments

Harness announces its new Cloud Development Environments module: on-demand development environments pre-configured with everything you need to start coding.

Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery

Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery.

Introducing Harness AI Productivity Insights

Harness introduces AI Productivity Insights to help engineering leaders measure, understand, and optimize the impact of their AI Code Assistant investments.

Harness Delivers End-to-End Software Supply Chain Security with SCS Module

Harness now delivers end-to-end software supply chain security with the SCS module.

Introducing Harness Database DevOps

Discover how Harness Database DevOps simplifies the integration of database changes into CI/CD pipelines. In this blog, we introduce the beta release of this powerful new module, designed to automate schema management, ensure visibility across environments, and enforce governance policies. Learn how DBAs and developers can collaborate more effectively to streamline database migrations and deliver software faster and more reliably.

Introducing Harness Open Source: Revolutionizing Software Delivery for Developers

Harness Open Source offers an end-to-end software delivery platform that enhances productivity and accelerates software development cycles, eliminating the need to juggle disjointed software development tools.

Introducing AI-Native Harness Artifact Registry

Harness announces it's new Artifact Registry module, an AI-native central artifact management solution.

Harness Announces New AI Agents for Software Delivery

Harness announces AI Assistants for Coding, Testing, DevOps and Productivity Insights.

Enforcing Database Change Policies

How our customers enforce database change policies

Best Practices for Using Policy as Code in CI/CD Pipelines with Harness

Harness's Policy as Code automates governance in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security and compliance. It allows teams to define, enforce, and manage policies efficiently through predefined rules, flexible enforcement levels, and centralized policy sets, ensuring smooth adoption and scalability.

Streamline and Stay Aligned: How IDP and IaCM Keep Your DevOps in Sync

Explore how Internal Developer Portals (IDP) and Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) can work together to streamline DevOps processes. This blog discusses the benefits of centralizing resource access through IDPs and automating infrastructure management with IaCM to maintain consistency, prevent configuration drift, and enhance team efficiency. Learn how these tools can help your organization overcome common challenges in modern software development and operations.

7 Key Approaches to Achieve Cloud Cost Visibility

Discover 7 key approaches to achieve cloud cost visibility including anomaly detection, tagging, etc. Learn how tools like Harness CCM can help in achieving cloud cost visibility and enhance cloud cost management.

Evolution of Harness Infrastructure

Discover how we streamlined operations by standardizing our cloud-native stack with Infrastructure as Code, accelerating environment setup from weeks to hours.

5 Essential AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

Discover 5 effective strategies to manage AWS cloud costs, including using Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and resource optimization techniques. Learn how tools like Harness CCM can help reduce expenses and enhance cloud efficiency.

Today’s State of Feature Management and Experimentation

We partnered with LeadDev to survey 500 engineering leaders on how they're releasing software today. The findings underscore the necessity for robust feature management & experimentation solutions with release monitoring.

Continuous Integration Tools

Continuous Integration tools comparison. 1. Jenkins 2. GitHub Actions 3. GitLab 4. CircleCI 5.Harness

GitOps Your Terraform or OpenTofu

Learn how to easily integrate Terraform or OpenTofu with GitOps. Follow our quick guide to set up a Git repository, configure infrastructure, create pipelines, and manage changes effectively.

Best practices for awesome CI/CD

Learn CI/CD best practices for successful implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery

What Is A DevSecOps Pipeline?

A DevSecOps pipeline is a CI\CD pipeline with integrated security tooling and processes for application security testing, remediation, and security & compliance governance.

Harness named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms

Harness has been named a leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms

DevOps, Discussions, and Droids: Harness's Adventure at DevOpsDays Halifax

Explore key DevOps trends from DevOpsDays Halifax 2024, including AI's impact on operations, CI/CD optimization, and advanced observability techniques. Gain insights from industry experts on navigating the DevOps chasm and enhancing developer productivity.

Cloud-based CI/CD

In a cloud-based CI/CD platform, your CI/CD software runs on cloud infrastructure instead of on-premises.

Harness Guardrails and Resilience

Discover how combining Open Policy Agent (OPA) and ChaosGuard strengthens both compliance and resilience in DevOps. This blog highlights how these tools work together to secure and fortify your infrastructure against the challenges of modern DevOps environments.

Unlock New Possibilities with Custom Recommendations

Custom Recommendations powered by Cloud Asset Governance enables you to create a tailor-made recommendation with just a simple YAML. The Harness AI Development Assistant (Aida™) automatically generates these YAML policies. Custom recommendations leverage the power of policy-as-code and the simplicity of recommendation workflows to simplify lifecycle management. 

4 Essential Strategies for Azure Cost Optimization

Optimize Azure costs by understanding usage, leveraging Reserved Instances, autoscaling, and using tools like Harness for efficient cloud management.

Dark - Beyond Traditional Enterprise Themes

Colors-defining themes are too basic. Learn how we take theming in our product to the next level.

Navigation Design for an Array of Software Delivery Tools 

Learn how we came up with a simple solution to tackle our wide array of product modules and personas at Harness.

Harness Product Updates August 2024

Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.

Designing for Enterprise Scale

Learn how we keep our designs consistent, dynamic, and relevant across our ever-growing list of product modules at Harness.

Securing Containers With DevSecOps

DevSecOps is the most effective means of detecting and remediating known vulnerabilities in application containers.

Simplify Serverless and AWS SAM Deployments with multiple runtime support and pre-execution commands

Managing different runtime versions and handle complex dependencies without slowing down your deployment pipeline.

What is Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)?

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is an approach to application security testing whereby an application (typically a web application or service) is analyzed for security vulnerabilities when it is running, using a tool that simulates attacks and observes the application’s corresponding behavior.

What Is Application Security Testing?

Application Security Testing is the practice of scanning various aspects of an application throughout its development lifecycle for the purpose of uncovering and remediating known vulnerabilities, thus strengthening the application’s security posture.

IaC is Great, But Have You Met IaCM?

This blog highlights the critical role of Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) in enhancing IaC practices, ensuring security, compliance, and efficiency in managing complex infrastructure at scale.

Discover Azure DevOps Alternatives

Discover the best Azure DevOps alternatives and replacements to enhance your software development processes. Compare top tools and make an informed decision for your team.

Basics of CI CD pipelines

A CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that enables teams to deliver software more frequently and reliably by automating the integration, testing, and deployment processes.

Learn About Database DevOps at KubeCon

Announces our upcoming talk at Kubecon and provides a introduction to the database devops content that will be discussed.

GitOps vs. DevOps: What's the Difference?

Understand the differences between GitOps and DevOps, their workflows, and which approach(es) best suit your organization.

What Is Software Supply Chain Security?

Organizations need to secure their software supply chains against a growing number of sophisticated attacks aimed at software artifacts and DevOps toolchains.

CI/CD Tools: The basics

CI/CD, which stands for continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment, aims to streamline and accelerate the software development lifecycle

What is Continuous Integration Testing

Continuous Integration (CI) testing is integral to the CI process that focuses on automatically verifying the correctness and quality of code changes.

DevOps Audit Trail: Introduction, Benefits, and How Harness Does It

Discover the critical role of DevOps audit trails in enhancing security, ensuring compliance, and boosting operational efficiency.

Continuous Integration Best Practices

The Ideal Continuous Integration (CI) process is essential for maintaining software functionality and quality.

Comparison: Argo CD vs Flux

Compare Argo CD vs Flux, the top GitOps reconcilers for Kubernetes

What Is A Software Supply Chain?

Learn about the software supply chain and how it needs to be secured against a growing number of sophisticated cyber attacks.

What is Cloud Cost Management?

Cloud cost management is a comprehensive approach to optimizing your cloud resources, ensuring you get the most value from every dollar you spend.

Harness Product Updates July 2024

Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.

How Changes to Database Schemas Slow Down Application Delivery

Accelerate app delivery by automating database schema changes, ensuring data integrity, and adopting a DevOps approach. Learn key strategies here.