Harness Blog

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.

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.

CD and the Modern Software Shop

CD doesn't need to feel overwhelming. Learn how we arrived where we are, and the best practices needed to modernize continuous delivery and deployment in your organization.

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.

Why Platform Engineers Trust Harness

Harness is tailored to the needs of Platform Engineers. Recently, Gartner rated highly in a Platform Engineering use case.

Road to KubeCon 2023 - Join Harness at KubeCon NA 2023

Harness will be back at KubeCon NA this year and also participating in Co-Located events. Learn about our latest contributions and predictions.

Use Feature Flag-Driven Development to Drive Innovation

Feature flag-driven development enhances agility, control, and speed by allowing gradual feature releases, real-time experimentation, and risk mitigation. This approach, when paired with advanced tools like Split by Harness, empowers teams to innovate continuously and deliver optimized user experiences.

Need for Automation - GitOps at Scale

Master GitOps like building software: from initial tests to advanced automation challenges. Learn how Terraform can address the bootstrapping dilemma.

October 2023 Product Updates

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

Hate reading docs? Me too. That's why we have Support powered by AIDA™

Discover how Harness is revolutionizing software delivery with the introduction of AIDA’s newest capability: Support. Dive into the transformative power of AI-driven customer service and learn how we are infusing AI to create a seamless user experience.

Experimenting With Statistical Rigor to Make Data-Driven Taco Decisions

Elevate your product development process with statistical rigor. Learn how to use data to make informed decisions, from A/B testing to analyzing user behavior using a real-world product development scenario.

Deploying to Kubernetes with Gitness

Learn how to deploy applications to Kubernetes using Gitness. Follow a detailed guide on setting up, configuring, and executing deployment pipelines.

How We Use Our Own Feature Flags at Harness

Discover how Harness uses feature flags to enhance product development and customer success, ensuring reliable, tailored feature releases.

Safe Testing in Production with Harness Feature Flags

Safely test in production using feature flags. Learn to target users, roll out features gradually, and revert changes quickly.

How You Can Use Feature Flags to Simplify Your Rollback Plan

Feature flags can simplify rollback plans by enabling quick deactivation of features and automation of rollback processes, making rollbacks more efficient and reliable.

Elevating Reliability in Software: Harnessing Smart Feature Flags for Velocity and Performance

Enhance software reliability with smart feature flags. Learn how to improve performance, manage flags, and ensure continuous delivery.

Demystifying Trunk-Based Development

Discover trunk-based development to streamline your workflow and reduce merge conflicts. Learn best practices and get started quickly.

Delegates and Agents - Onramp to Scale with Harness

By leveraging a Harness Delegate or GitOps Agent, you are able to model commands you would have to maintain locally for remote execution.

Harness Unveils Four Game-Changing Modules

At our {unscripted} conference, Harness introduced 4 new modules: Code Repository, Internal Developer Portal, Infrastructure as Code Management, and Software Supply Chain Assurance.

Step into Tomorrow: Harness Internal Developer Portal is Ready for the Public

Discover the public preview of Harness Developer Portal, enhancing developer onboarding and service management.

Harness Releases Gitness– Open Source Git Platform

First open source developer platform in nearly a decade offers unified source code management, CI pipelines, improved collaboration, enhanced security

Harness Announces Engineering Leadership Community to Codify Engineering Excellence Standards

Elevating AIDA™: Harness Unveils 7 New Innovative Capabilities

Harness is proud to announce 7 new AIDA features that span across the software delivery lifecycle. These capabilities empower engineers and team members with tools that increase productivity, streamline software delivery processes, and enhance governance. 

Introducing Harness Software Supply Chain Assurance (SSCA)

Boost Your DevSecOps Practice With SLSA-based Artifact Integrity and SBOM-driven Open Source Governance

Gitness: Your Ultimate Open Source Development Platform

Gtiness is a new alternative to the limited open source version control solutions available with the breadth and depth of features to empower development teams to write and deliver code with safety and speed.

Introducing Harness Infrastructure as Code Management

We are now happy to announce the launch of a new module the provide CI/CD solution for infrastructure changes

A Complete Guide to Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-based development promotes frequent code commits to a single source of truth, reducing merge conflicts and accelerating release cycles. It boosts productivity through continuous integration, automated testing, and rapid deployment.

Become Harness Certified in CI and CD & GitOps at Any Level

Harness now offers three levels of certifications in both our CI and CD & GitOps modules.

Introducing the Harness CLI

We are pleased to announce the public preview launch of the new Harness CLI.

How Quizlet Automates Pull Requests for Cloud Cost Recommendations

Discover how Quizlet boosted engineer engagement by 75% and saved 40% on Kubernetes costs using an automated cloud cost workflow.

Accelerating Harness CD & GitOps Learning for New Users

To solve the need of new user learning especially for the Harness CD & GitOps Free plan, we are pleased to announce the public preview of a new “Get Started” UI that takes the user through a guided learning journey.

Harness Announces the 4th Edition of Chaos Engineering Conference focusing on Software Resilience

Save the date for January 24th-25th, 2024, as Harness brings back Chaos Carnival, the annual worldwide conference on Chaos Engineering.

The Impact of Github Copilot on Developer Productivity: A Case Study

Managing the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Lifecycle: Adhering to Modern Standards and Regulations

Learn how to manage the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) lifecycle, adhering to modern standards and regulations like Executive Order 14028.

Trunk-Based vs. Feature-Based Development

Master Git branching with this guide on trunk-based and feature-based development. Learn the pros, cons, and how they impact CI/CD.

HashiCorp’s BSL License Change: What this means for Harness CD customers?

HashiCorp's BSL license change doesn't impact Harness CD's Terraform, Vault integrations for provisioning, onboarding, and secret management.

Harness Cloud Asset Governance powered by AIDA™: The Path to a Well Managed Cloud

Harness Cloud Asset Governance automatically eliminates cloud waste, ensuring compliance & freeing engineers for innovation.

Charting Software Delivery Flight Paths: Intro to GitOps Source Patterns

Automate cloud cost optimization and compliance with Harness Cloud Asset Governance. Free engineers to innovate.

Growing the Harness Developer Hub

Harness Developer Hub gets updated! Explore new content, clearer explanations, and a more intuitive user journey based on customer feedback.

Misfit vs. 10X Processes

As teams scale, the role of "Process" becomes a central topic, eliciting both strong support and vehement opposition. Processes can sometimes feel burdensome and ineffective, yet they're indispensable for seamless growth and concerted progress. The challenge lies in distinguishing between good and bad processes and finding the equilibrium between the need for consistency and the freedom to innovate. To unravel this, let's first examine the pitfalls that make processes cumbersome and prone to failure.

Harnessing Next-Gen AI for Secure Software Delivery: A Look at Harness AIDA™

Discover how Harness Security Testing Orchestration uses GenAI with Google Vertex AI to transform your DevOps & DevSecOps for secure software delivery

A/B Testing For Feature Flags, What It Is And What It Shouldn’t Be

Understand the right way to use A/B testing with feature flags. Learn best practices for engineering verification and behavioral analytics.

August 2023 Product Updates

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

Automate Your CI/CD Pipeline Using Triggers

Learn how triggers automate CI/CD pipelines and explore the various trigger types available for complete automation.

Advanced Deployment Strategies

This article talks about the different deployment strategies along with the best practices.

Harnessing The Power of Secrets Management

CI/CD Pipeline as Code with Harness

Learn how to implement CI/CD pipeline as code with Harness, simplifying configuration, collaboration, and automation using YAML.

Introducing the Harness Idea Portal: Share Your Insights, Shape Our Future

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re changing how we engage with our customers to collect feedback and prioritize our roadmap.

How Organizations Can Reduce DevOps Costs with CI/CD Pipeline Templates

Everything that ties to DevOps promotes automation in one or the other ways.

How to Mitigate Risk in AI Software Development

AI offers immense potential, but risks lurk beneath the surface. Discover how to navigate these challenges through data quality, model transparency, and rigorous testing.

Optimizing Facebook’s Proxygen Project Build Time with Harness CI: A Case Study

In this article, we build Facebook's Proxygen project on the Harness CI module. Additionally, we conduct a comprehensive analysis, comparing the build time obtained from Harness CI with that of Github Actions, which happens to be Proxygen's default CI tool.

Easily Migrate Continuous Integration Pipelines to Harness

Explore Harness CI Migration Utility, our latest innovation for effortless CI migration

GitOps: The Push and Pull Approach

Explore the push and pull approaches in GitOps. Learn how to streamline software delivery using Git as the single source of truth.

Thousands of community plugins at your fingertips with Harness CI

Tap into the collective wisdom of the developer community by running Drone plugins, Bitrise steps, and GitHub Actions from your Harness CI pipeline

Jira Releases

We are thrilled to introduce an exciting new addition to Software Engineering Insights!

How Harness Increased Query Efficiency 1000x

Aggregate tables are a powerful mechanism to deliver PDTs that are subsets of a parent explore. Engineered correctly, one can craft these to position it to scale to one’s data needs, positioning the practitioner to ensure efficiency and cost-optimization in the data platform, while also enhancing the customer experience in delivering timely, fast visualizations. Harness has and will continue to utilize aggregate tables to eliminate choke points in query processing to continue to provide a best-in-class customer experience in Custom Dashboards.

July 2023 Product Updates

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

6 Myths of Engineering Intelligence

Over the past few years, I've engaged in numerous conversations with Engineering Teams and Engineering leaders, leading me to identify several myths surrounding engineering intelligence. Let's debunk these myths one by one.

Introduction to Harness GitOps™

Building a Software Delivery Factory with Goal-Driven Automation

Harness Certified Experts - Continuous Delivery & GitOps Admin Certification is GA

We are pleased to announce Harness Certified Experts - Continuous Delivery & GitOps Admin Certification is GA.

Introducing Remote Debugger: A Powerful Tool for Real-Time Builds Debugging

Learn how the Remote Debugger simplifies troubleshooting, transforming this time-consuming exercise in guesswork into a targeted, real-time effective investigation.

Introducing Datadog RUM and Split

Improve your product development process! This blog post explores how Split integrates with Datadog RUM to give product teams valuable insights into user experience.

Introducing Harness AIDA™ - AI Development Assistant for AI Infused Software Delivery

Going Beyond Code Generation, AIDA Infuses AI Across Entire SDLC, Tackling Error Resolution, Security Vulnerabilities, and Cloud Cost Governance.

Harness Named a Market Fast Mover in GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud FinOps

Harness is proud to be included in the latest GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps as a Fast Moving Challenger in the Innovative/Platform Play quadrant of the report.

Continuous Verification - Machine Learning to Safeguard Your Deployments

A challenge facing deployments is validating the health of newly deployed services. Learn how Harness safeguards your deployments with Machine Learning.

The Threat Modeling Process Part 2: How to Set Up Your First Threat Model

Learn step-by-step how to set up your first threat model, including identifying security objectives and decomposing applications.

Introducing Harness Internal Developer Portal - Beta release

Discover the beta release of Harness Internal Developer Portal, streamlining developer onboarding and service management with out-of-the-box features.

Chaos Experiments in Harness CD Pipelines

Chaos Engineering delivers fantastic benefits to the developers, development teams, and overall DevOps when chaos experiments are automated into the regular CD pipelines. Read this blog to know the benefits and how to use chaos experiments in Harness CD pipelines.

Verifying Your Kubernetes Deployments Made Easy

Learn how to verify Kubernetes deployments with Harness using continuous verification and various monitoring tools for optimal performance.

SRM Feature Update - May 2023

Learn about the latest reliability features in the Service Reliability Management module. See how composite SLOs, request-based SLOs, SLO downtime, SLO reporting, and new integrations help you deliver faster with better reliability.

Achieving Continuous Resilience with Harness Chaos Engineering

Introducing the continuous resilience approach. Understand the modern approach to practicing chaos engineering where the efforts to build resilience are inserted into all stages of your software development life cycle through automated chaos experiments. Harness Chaos Engineering or Harness CE comes with all the building blocks required for achieving Continuous Resilience in DevOps.

The Importance of Continuous Verification

Continuous Verification: Is a critical step in the deployment pipeline that validates deployments.

The Threat Modeling Process

Learn about threat modeling, its benefits, challenges, and steps to integrate it into your software delivery lifecycle.

How to Use Error Budgets for Reliability Management‍

In this blog post, we'll explore the importance of error budgets, how they are calculated, and how they can be managed effectively to improve the reliability of your services.

Meeting Federal Zero Trust Requirements With Harness

In this blog, we’ll explore the new Federal Zero Trust Strategy as part of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and how Harness can help support it. 

Announcing the Continuous Error Tracking Module for Developer-first Observability

As the latest module in the Harness Software Delivery Platform, Continuous Error Tracking helps developers proactively identify and resolve errors for modern applications.

How Cloud AutoStopping Complements Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaling for Cost Savings

Learn how Cloud AutoStopping complements Kubernetes autoscaling for maximum cost savings in non-production environments.

Accelerate iOS and MacOS Build Pipelines with Apple M1 and Harness

Apple M1 support is available for CI pipelines! Learn how to optimize your Apple platforms app development by building on Apple Silicon M1 machines with Harness Cloud.

Erlang and Elixir SDK Now Available in Harness Feature Flags

Harness introduces Erlang and Elixir SDK for Feature Flags, enhancing support for scalable, fault-tolerant app development.

Harness Introduces New Jira Software Integrations, Enabling a More Efficient Workflow for Developers

New Harness Continuous Integration and Feature Flags integrations in Jira provide customers with deeper visibility across the development process.

Best Practices for Implementing Value Stream Management

Implementing Value Stream Management (VSM) enables software teams to eliminate inefficiencies, set measurable goals, and foster an environment that boosts productivity and morale. Harnessing these best practices can empower teams to deliver higher-quality products faster and more effectively.

Introducing Cache Intelligence for Faster, More Efficient Continuous Integration Builds

Learn how Cache Intelligence accelerates continuous integration builds through seamless automatic caching for software dependencies.

Centrally Manage Your Split Users & Groups With SCIM Support

Streamline feature releases and improve developer efficiency with centralized user and group management using SCIM. Simplify targeting rules, automate rollouts, and gain valuable insights to optimize your product development process.

A Brief History of Feature Toggles: How the Software Tool Has Evolved

Feature toggles have become an essential tool for software development, allowing for gradual rollouts, experimentation, and risk mitigation. Learn about the history of feature toggles, the benefits and challenges of using them, and how companies are using them effectively.

Crafting a Github Pull Request Template

Improve code review efficiency and team communication with a pull request template. Learn how to craft a template that includes all the essential information for reviewers, and boost collaboration on your next project.

Harness Celebrates Women in Tech for International Women’s Day 2023

As Harness celebrated International Women’s Day, we hosted a panel for women to share their experiences. Read the highlights.

Introducing Harness Certified Experts: Continuous Delivery Developer Certification

We're pleased to announce a new Harness platform certification series, Harness Certified Experts, for Harness users.

Announcing the Harness Feature Flags Backstage Plugin: The Developer-Centric View You Need

Harness introduces the Feature Flags Backstage plugin, providing developers with a focused view to manage flags within their Backstage platform.

Implementing CI/CD for Microservices Architecture

Here are some best practices and tools you should consider if you want to implement a successful CI/CD pipeline for your microservices deployment.

Setting Up PagerDuty Notifications for Incident Management Using Harness

Learn how to integrate PagerDuty incident management tool with Harness to get a clear view of your CI/CD pipeline events.

DORA Metrics & How Feature Flags Help You Measure Up

Unlock higher performance and reliability with DORA metrics and feature flags, which together empower engineering teams to measure, optimize, and streamline deployment processes for faster, more efficient software delivery.

Advanced Feature Flagging: It’s All About the Data

Unlock the power of data-driven feature flagging for A/B testing, gradual rollouts, and more. Learn how to implement randomization, conduct comparative analysis, and avoid common pitfalls.

Using Ephemeral Environments to Test and Scale Your Deployments

In this tutorial, we will discuss what ephemeral environments are, how they work, and how to configure them.

How HugOps Help Reduce Software Developer Burnout

Feature flags, as part of the HugOps mindset, empower DevOps teams to prioritize collaboration and psychological safety. This approach enhances teamwork, improves incident response, and fosters trust, creating healthier, more resilient development environments.

Harness Celebrates Black History Month 2023

As Harness celebrates Black History Month, we’re honored to share the unique perspectives of a few members of our team who have graciously shared their stories. 

Five Key Technologies Shaping the Future of Software Delivery

If you’re ready to take your software delivery to the next level, consider looking into these five key concepts that are quickly becoming essential to modern software delivery. 

Meeting Federal Compliance Requirements with Policy-as-Code and Automated Change Management

With a broad number of compliance policies, how do federal IT shops ultimately implement, govern, and enforce them?

Microservices With NestJS, Kafka, and TypeScript

Learn how to build scalable microservices using NestJS, Kafka, and TypeScript. This guide covers setting up NestJS, integrating Kafka for event-driven communication, and leveraging advanced features to optimize your microservices architecture.

How to Remove Sensitive Data From a Git History

Learn two methods to remove an API key or other sensitive data from a Git commit using either the Git Command Line Tool or the BFG Repo-Cleaner tool.