Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Automating Kubernetes Resource Discovery and Chaos Experiment Creation

Harness Delegate automates Kubernetes resource discovery and chaos experiment creation, enhancing efficiency and resilience in chaos engineering

Effective Branch Rules for Your Git Repo

Learn how to use branch rules in Harness Code Repository to maintain code quality, enforce best practices, and streamline your Git workflow.

What's New with Harness AIDA: Elevate Your DevOps with Enhanced AI Capabilities

Discover the latest updates in Harness AIDA, including automated code generation, dashboard generation, and more to elevate your DevOps

Automation of Harness Continuous deployment entity creation using Terraform resources and OpenTofu

Stepwise tutorial for creating Harness entities and how you can reuse existing terraform scripts to create resources.

Mastering CODEOWNERS: Streamline Code Ownership in Your Git Repository

Leverage CODEOWNERS to streamline code review. Understand syntax, best practices, and ensure the right people manage the right parts of your codebase.

Harnessing Chaos Safely: An Introduction to ChaosGuard

Discover how Harness ChaosGuard revolutionizes chaos engineering by providing a secure and controlled framework for managing system disruptions. This

Welcome Split to the Harness team

Harness is acquiring Split Software to deliver the most powerful Feature Management and Experimentation offering in the industry.

Protecting Against Poisoned Pipeline Execution

Learn the different types of PPE attacks, and how to minimize or eliminate the threat to your automation pipelines.

Software Rollback

Mastering software rollbacks is essential for maintaining system stability. By leveraging strategies like rollback plans and feature flags, developers can swiftly undo changes, ensuring smoother updates and minimizing disruptions.

Building robust and resilient Harness pipelines with Failure Handling support

Let's talk about what are the different scenarios for failure and how we effectively handle failures in Harness pipelines.

Celebrating $150M In New Financing to Accelerate Innovation

Harness secures $150M to empower developers and reduce toil. Focused on AI, it aims to transform software delivery, boosting productivity and success.

Gitness Can Keep a Secret: Exploring Secret Detection Capabilities

Learn how Gitness detects and prevents secret leaks in Git repositories, boosting security and protecting sensitive data.

Feature Flags and Cloud Cost Management

Discover how this strategic combination can help you manage feature releases while monitoring cloud costs effectively.

Integrating third party tools with Harness Deployment pipelines for improved efficiency

Streamline deployments by integrating third-party tools with Harness pipelines for better testing, performance, and security.

Harness partners with Semgrep through integration of SAST scanners in Harness STO

Announcing Harness's partnership with Semgrep, featuring the integration of Semgrep open source SAST and Semgrep Code into Harness STO

Harness becomes first certified CI/CD platform vendor to partner with Wiz

Announcement blog detailing the partnership with Wiz and integration of Wiz CLI into Harness STO

Migrating a GitLab Group to Harness Code Repository

Learn how to migrate a GitLab group to Harness Code Repository seamlessly. Follow steps for setup and CI pipeline execution.

Seamlessly Migrate from Spinnaker to Harness

Learn how to easily migrate pipelines from Spinnaker to Harness CI and CD.

GitHub Actions Plugin for Reusable CI/CD Pipelines

Harness CI now supports GitHub Actions for reusable CI/CD pipelines, enhancing efficiency and consistency in your development workflow.

MLOps and DevOps: Bridging the Gap

Learn how MLOps and DevOps converge to optimize machine learning projects, from inception to deployment, leveraging CI/CD for efficient delivery.

Harness the Power of AI for Effortless Cloud Governance

Take control of cloud costs with Harness Cloud Cost Management's AI-powered governance. Automatically identify waste, right-size resources, and enforce smart policies for proactive cost savings.

Streamline Multi-Environment Delivery with Painless Traffic Routing

At Harness, our mission is to simplify your delivery process. We're excited to introduce our latest feature: out-of-the-box traffic routing. This enhancement empowers you with east-west traffic routing capabilities. Choose your preferred routing service provider, whether it's SMI or Istio, and you'll be up and running in no time!

Shipped by Harness - April 2024 Product Updates

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

Instructor-Led Training Now Available from Harness University

Today with the goal of accelerating your success, we are now offering in-depth training courses on Harness Modules as part of Harness University.

Introducing new Catalog Ingestion APIs to make Harness IDP truly yours

These capabilities allow you to update or ingest additional metadata in the Software Catalog for components and use it to customize your Catalog pages UI, build new Scorecard checks and provide dropdown pickers in the Workflows UI.

Announcing Business Alignment 2.0 - Connect Engineering to Business Value like Never Before

Announcing a new experience for measuring Business Alignment metrics on Harness SEI.

Making Shift-left Security Even Easier: Built-in Scanners and Automatic Configuration with Harness STO

STO product feature update on STO's built-in one-click scan and auto-configuration capabilities

XZ Utils CVE-2024-3094: Block and Remediate with Harness SSCA

Technical blog detailing how Harness SSCA can block and remediate CVE-2024-3094

An In-depth Look at Achieving SLSA Level-3 Compliance with Harness

Technical overview of how customers can achieve SLSA Level-3 compliance with Harness CI and SSCA modules in order to ensure software is tamper-free.

Introducing Developer 360 pricing by Harness - supercharge your Developer Experience the easy way

Introducing Developer 360: Harness' new, simplified pricing model offers greater transparency, flexibility, and ease of use.

The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Proof of Concepts

Discover how to test-drive the cloud before committing. This blog is your guide to cloud proof of concepts, choosing the right application, and managing cloud costs with Harness.

A New Way to Understand Your Product Usage

Introducing an easier way to understand your Continuous Delivery Module utilization with the new Product Usage tab. This dynamic dashboard offers insightful glimpses into feature utilization within Harness, your proficiency level with the module, and handy graphs providing quick updates on deployment activities and frequencies.

March 2024 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

Automate CI/CD effortlessly with Harness Code Repository Trigger

Automate CI/CD with Harness Code Repository triggers. Simplify pipelines using pull requests and push events.

The Lifecycle of Software Releases Explained

Mastering the software release lifecycle—spanning alpha, beta, and production stages—is key to efficient development. Embracing Agile and DevOps methods, along with innovative tools like feature flags, ensures smoother, faster releases.

From dbt to SQLMesh

Explore the shift from dbt to SQLMesh, highlighting the benefits of improved state management, templating, and efficiency in data transformation.

Why Harness IDP, powered by Backstage, is Your Gateway to Effortless Developer Portal Excellence

Harness believes in the power of Backstage as the go-to open source framework for powering Internal Developer Portals. However, as a framework rather than a ready-to-use solution, Backstage poses many adoption challenges in terms of completeness and maintenance. This is where Harness steps in, offering a full-featured Internal Developer Portal product, an enterprise-grade solution built on top of Backstage to address these pain points and elevate the developer experience

Top 3 Sprint Metrics to Measure Developer Productivity

When sprint results fail to deliver, product quality suffers. This blog outlines the top 3 sprint metrics to measure sprint success.

Choosing the Right Cloud Deployment Model

Choosing the right cloud deployment model means balancing security, control, and cost-efficiency. Learn how private, public, hybrid, community, and multi-cloud approaches each meet different business needs effectively.

Introducing Git Experience for Services, Environments, Infrastructure and Overrides in Harness CD

Effortlessly store service, environment, and infrastructure definitions, along with their overrides, directly in Github in Harness CD.

Harness Cloud Asset Governance: Cloud Custodian & Beyond

Leverage Cloud Asset Governance to help you take your cloud governance to the next level.

The Difference Between Rolling and Blue-Green Deployments

Rolling and blue-green deployments offer distinct benefits for software delivery: rolling deployments ensure a gradual, stable release, while blue-green deployments enable instant rollbacks for enhanced reliability. Choose the strategy that aligns with your team's needs for efficiency and control.

Comparing Smoke Tests to Regression Tests

Smoke testing offers a quick check on software stability, while regression testing ensures updates don’t break existing features. Both are essential for high-quality software, with automation enhancing efficiency and accuracy.

February 2024 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

Differences Between Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing

Smoke and sanity testing ensure software stability and reliability—smoke tests verify core functions, while sanity tests confirm targeted changes haven’t caused issues, streamlining quality assurance for faster releases.

Monoliths vs Microservices vs Serverless

Monolithic, microservices, and serverless architectures each offer distinct advantages in scalability, deployment, and maintenance. Choosing the right approach depends on your project’s needs, growth potential, and resource demands.

Industry News: Weaveworks closes its doors

WeaveWorks announced that it is closing. Harness offers their customers a good alternative.

Why do you need a Developer metrics dashboard for your engineering team?

Eliminate developer burnout, reduce cycle time, and boost productivity with a dashboard for tracking and analyzing key software development KPIs

Introduction to Building a CRUD API with Node.js and Express

Learn how to build a basic CRUD API using Node.js and Express. This guide covers setting up the server, handling requests, and structuring routes to interact with a database for efficient data management.

Standardizing Continuous Delivery

How to ensure releases are scalable, predictable, and compliant

Build Docker Images 10x Faster: Use Layer Caching with Harness CI Cloud

Layer caching allows Docker to reuse intermediate layers from previous Harness CI pipelines, which can reduce build times up to 10x

5 Harness Platform Features Every Security & Compliance Team Will Love

Discover five key Harness Platform features enhancing security and compliance, including strong authentication and policy-as-code governance.

Mastering Continuous Delivery: A Closer Look at How Harness Engineers' Deploy Software

In the ever-evolving world of software development, achieving efficient and reliable continuous delivery is a priority for modern organizations. At Harness, this is the creed we live by.

Integrating Feature Flags in Next.JS React Applications

Easily incorporate feature flags into Next.js applications, gaining precise control over feature rollouts. Streamline deployment workflows and boost flexibility, helping developers manage dynamic releases with confidence.

Level Up your Zero-day Vulnerability Remediation and SBOM Quality for a More Secure Software Supply Chain

Product announcement blog detailing 3 new SSCA features: SBOM quality scoring, SBOM drift detection, and real-time remediation tracking

Announcing new features of Harness Chaos Engineering at the ChaosCarnival 2024

Discover the latest features of Harness Chaos Engineering, unveiled at ChaosCarnival 2024, enhancing automation, governance, and resilience testing.

Getting Started with Enterprise GitOps

Announcing easy getting started options for Enterprise GitOps

Chaos Engineering ROI Calculator

Calculate the ROI of chaos engineering with Harness. Estimate potential business losses from outages and improve reliability with our tools.

ArgoCD, Terraform and Harness

Explore integrating ArgoCD, Terraform, and Harness for efficient GitOps, automating deployments, and managing infrastructure effectively.

CI/CD for Serverless

Learn how to implement CI/CD for serverless apps, leveraging automation to enhance scalability, cost efficiency, and simplified deployments.

Elevate Your Code Quality with Harness SEI: Mastering the Art of Software Excellence

Discover how Harness Software Engineering Insights (SEI) revolutionizes code quality and productivity. Explore the Trellis Framework, quality metrics, and structured engineering improvements for unparalleled software development. Learn more in our comprehensive guide.

Hygiene in SDLC: A Key to Engineering Efficiency

Explore the importance of hygiene in software development with our blog. Discover how it ensures top-notch software quality and insights. Get practical tips for improvement and join us in fostering a culture of continuous excellence. Prioritize quality and efficiency for success in the software world!

Navigate a New Way: Your Dedicated User Experience

Introducing Nav 2.0, a new design that updates the information hierarchy of our platform to provide a curated user experience for multiple personae.

Push Helm Charts to Container Registries with Harness CI

Learn how to publish OCI Helm charts to a Container registry

January 2024 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

Harness Acquires Armory Assets

We’re excited to announce that Harness has acquired key intellectual property and technology from Armory.

How to Contribute to the Harness CLI

Lessons learned from committing to a new project, and to open source in general

5 Reasons to Attend Chaos Carnival

Harness is excited to host the third annual Chaos Carnival, a FREE two-day virtual conference on March 15-16, 2023. So, have you registered yet? Here are five reasons why you should register today!

Retiring Harness CD Community Edition in favor of Gitness

We are retiring the Harness CD Community Edition in favor of Gitness to deliver the true promise of a simple CD pipeline.

Webinar: Increased Velocity with Better Control

Field CTO Martin Reynolds joins The Register's Tim Phillips to discuss the challenges of modern software delivery.

December 2023 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

Ephemeral CI environments using ttl.sh and Gitness

Read this blog to learn how Gitness and ttl.sh can be used to create temporary CI environments to expedite development processes.

The Seven Phases of the Software Development Life Cycle

The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) consists of seven essential phases—Planning, Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance—that ensure successful software development, from concept to continuous improvement.

Getting Started with the React SDK

What is going on with all of my amazing friends in the developer community? In this post we are taking a look at getting the Harness React SDK up and running in your project. This article is a low barrier to entry with the core code to get started. In the example below we are going to take what the React SDK GitHub has to offer and shorten it to get you started with your first feature flag in React.

ShipTalk Podcast - Starting an SRE Practice in a Critical Industry

In this episode of ShipTalk, we get to talk to Dr. Vlad Ukis, Head of R&D for Siemens Healthineers and author of Establishing SRE Foundations.

Unlocking Efficiency: Exploring Churn Rate with Harness Software Engineering Insights (SEI)

Explore the dynamic world of Churn Rate and its role in revolutionizing software delivery with Harness Software Engineering Insights (SEI). Uncover actionable insights, optimize workflows, and navigate the seas of development challenges with precision.

Announcing the Harness SRM Backstage Plugin

We are excited to introduce the latest addition to our suite of Open Source Backstage Plugins - the Harness SRM Backstage Plugin. This plugin is designed to seamlessly integrate with your Backstage Instance as well as with Harness IDP to help with development team's workflow, ensuring that Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets are not just a metric but a part of your daily development practice.‍

The Basics of a Release Branching Strategy

Release branching ensures code stability by isolating final tweaks and bug fixes before deployment. This strategy enhances development workflows, balances parallel development, and streamlines efficient release preparation.

Harness Chaos Engineering Faults Landscape

Discover the range of chaos faults supported by Harness Chaos Engineering, enhancing system resilience across various infrastructures and platforms.

Run Ruby Builds Up To 4x Faster Using Harness CI Test Intelligence

Announcing Ruby Test Intelligence preview for Harness CI! Run only the subset of tests relevant to your Ruby code changes and skip the rest.

Simplifying Policy Creation and Management with Harness AIDA™

Open Policy Agent (OPA) Policy Creation will become a whole lot easier with the help of AIDA Policy as Code Assistant. Dive into this blog to learn about how our new feature will revolutionize policy creation with cutting-edge AI technology.

A Git Branching Strategy for Efficient Software Development

Efficient software development relies on a well-defined Git branching strategy, balancing collaboration and release management. Explore proven workflows and best practices to streamline your team’s development process.

Securing CI/CD Images with Cosign and OPA

This blog examines container image security in CI/CD, focusing on tools like Cosign for image signing and Open Policy Agent (OPA) for policy enforcement. It offers a comparative look at various image signing tools, explores methods to ensure image integrity and compliance with organizational standards, and includes practical implementation guidance for Kubernetes, along with a hands-on tutorial.

Github Flow vs. Git Flow: What's the Difference?

Git Flow offers a structured approach with multiple branches for feature development, releases, and fixes, ideal for larger teams. GitHub Flow streamlines this with a focus on continuous delivery, making it more agile for smaller projects.

Bitbucket Server's sunset on February 15th, 2024: Evolving to streamlined DevSecOps from a disjointed past

Embrace a post-Bitbucket era of software delivery with Harness, where AI-powered DevSecOps shapes a superior future.

KubeCon 2023 NA Recap - Developer Experience is Monumental

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America has wrapped up, and those of us who attended are left with a wealth of new insights and ideas.

Trunk Based Development with Feature Flags

Learn how trunk-based development with feature flags optimizes your workflow. Implement faster and safer feature releases.

Increase Developer Velocity with AIDA™ and Harness CI

See how AIDA™ helps developers quickly troubleshoot and resolve build failures in Harness CI.

ArgoCon 2023 Recap: GitOps Achieves Escape Velocity

ArgoCon North America 2023 in Chicago brought Kubernetes experts together to discuss the Argo Project's impact on deployment, with Harness spotlighting their Continuous Delivery offering that leverages Argo CD for simplified artifact promotion and custom approval flows.

Harness Doubles Down on GitOps

Harness has added support for Flux and Argo Rollouts.

Lower Infrastructure Costs with Arm; Get there Faster with Harness CI Cloud

The Arm architecture offers significant potential cost and energy savings. Build Arm Docker images five times faster than emulation using Harness CI Cloud.

Adventures at MagnoliaJS

I had a blast speaking at MagnoliaJS, a developer community event in Jackson, Mississippi. Read about my adventure!

Got Monorepos Instead of Microservices? This is How Harness IDP Has Got You Covered

Backstage, an open-source developer portal, has become a favorite for many organizations, especially those leaning towards microservices. But what about those still using or transitioning from monorepos?

Harness Continuous Error Tracking Now Generally Available: Accelerate Error Identification and Resolution with In-Depth Code-Level Insights

Customer feedback on Harness Continuous Error Tracking reveals how it's helping them identify and fix errors faster in their SDLC

Cost Reporting for Chargeback and Showback: Why Choosing Harness Beats Building In-House

Harness Cost Categories enable custom cost views for efficient cloud spend tracking and management.

Migration Made Easy - Automatically Migrate From Drone To Harness CI

Simplify and accelerate your Drone to Harness CI migration with the Harness CI Migration Utility, automating tasks to save time and effort.

Harness Developer Hub - Ease of Authoring with Git Triggers

Harness Developer Hub [HDH] leverages Git Triggers to delivery developer education to the world. Learn about how HDH gets published.

Express Typescript: What It Is and How to Get Started

Express TypeScript combines Express.js’s flexibility with TypeScript’s static typing for enhanced error detection, code quality, and developer productivity. Learn to set up your environment, build a simple API, and master advanced features for robust web applications.

Architecting for Cost Savings at Tyler Technologies

Cloud architecture affects cost control. Tyler Technologies optimized their shared architecture to maximize Cloud AutoStopping savings.

Harness Terraform Provider: Managing Feature Flags with Terraform

Learn how to manage feature flags using Harness and Terraform. Enhance deployment pipelines and ensure consistent feature management.