Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Harness Expands Chaos Engineering Resiliency Features with Integrated Continuous Delivery

Harness enhances Chaos Engineering with new features integrated into Continuous Delivery, boosting automation, governance, and resilience testing.

Harness Chaos Engineering (CE) Key Capabilities

Learn Harness Chaos Engineering's key features: CI/CD integration, automated testing, and advanced observability for improved resilience.

Introducing Software Engineering Insights

The Harness Software Engineering Insights™ module gives engineering leaders actionable data to measure and optimize software delivery processes and improve developer experience.

Best Practices for Kubernetes Labels and Selectors

Master Kubernetes label best practices to optimize organization, resource allocation, and observability. Learn how to assign, manage, and select labels effectively to streamline deployment and scaling processes.

Harness Named Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service

Harness honored in Techstrong Group's 2022 DevOps Dozen for Tools and Services.

How to Secure Your Kubernetes Workloads

Learn how to secure your Kubernetes workloads using best practices and integrating security tools into your CI/CD pipeline for enhanced protection.

Creating End-to-End Type Safety in a Modern JS Stack

Ensure the correctness of your JavaScript codebase with end-to-end type safety. Learn how to set up a type-safe development environment and discover the benefits.

Announcing the General Availability of Harness Developer Hub

We are excited to announce the GA of Harness Developer Hub (HDH), bringing Tutorials, Documentation (including Release Notes), and Certifications in one location.

Introduction to Service Level Objective (SLO) Management

In this article, we’ll discuss Service Level Objective (SLO) management and how using service level objectives is a key component of site reliability management.

Complete Guide for GitOps on Kubernetes

Discover how GitOps and Kubernetes integrate for seamless CI/CD. Learn best practices and implementation steps for efficient software delivery.

The Harness API Testing Methodology

In this blog, we’ll share our approach as a useful reference for other software companies to consider as they prioritize API security testing.

What is DevSecOps? Strategies to Secure Applications

This blog post will cover every important aspect you need to know about security testing and DevSecOps.

Argo CD using Helm

Learn how to implement GitOps using Argo CD and Helm charts to automate Kubernetes deployments, ensuring consistent and efficient application delivery

How to Set Up Helm Rollbacks in Harness

Let's set up a pipeline for a Helm deployment and create a Rollback to kick in and restore the previous version.

How Harness Implemented CDN for Its UI Services

In this blog, we’ll walk through what a CDN is and how Harness implemented it into our environment.

Integrating Automated Security and Testing in Your CI/CD Pipeline

We'll show you how to integrate security tools, suites and frameworks of your choice into your continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using the Harness platform.

How To Implement CI/CD Efficiently

Let’s explore how you can adopt CI/CD to improve your organization’s efficiency and delivery pipeline in Harness.

GitOps Architecture Explained

In this article, we discuss the underlying architecture that makes GitOps possible, along with tools you’ll need and advice for getting started.

How the New Features in Harness Continuous Integration Fit in Your Environment

Explore how Harness CI's new Cache and Test Intelligence features can optimize performance and accelerate your build process.

Introducing Harness CI/CD Plugin for Backstage

Learn about the new Harness CI/CD plugin for Backstage, enhancing developer experience with integrated pipeline execution and monitoring.

What is Argo CD?

Discover Argo CD, an open-source GitOps tool for Kubernetes that automates deployments by syncing infrastructure with Git repositories.

What is the Difference Between a CTO and VP of Engineering?

A look at the qualities necessary for a successful VP of engineering and how this role differs from the CTO.

What is the Purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?

Tips for improving your sprint retrospective meetings.

What Is MTTR?: The DORA Metric You Need To Know

A deep dive into MTTR, a DORA metric that measures the amount of time it takes, on average, for a system to recover, from a disruption of service.

Deploying a To-Do Application to Kubernetes with Harness

Learn to deploy a to-do application to Kubernetes using Harness. Follow a step-by-step guide to set up CI/CD pipelines efficiently.

Dimensionality Best Practices Guide

Boost your experimentation efforts with dimensional analysis! This guide dives into data organization, crafting valuable dimensions, and utilizing Split's features to optimize your experiments.

Introduction to Harness Cluster Orchestrator for Amazon EKS

In this tutorial, we detail how the new Harness Cluster Orchestrator for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) feature within the Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) module can empower engineering, DevOps, and CloudOps teams with all the intelligence needed to scale Amazon EKS cluster nodes driven by unique workload requirements.

What Makes Harness a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for Feature Flags

Harness is a Leader and Outperformer in GigaOm's Feature Flags Report. Discover their standout capabilities in feature management.

Why It’s Time to Migrate from Jenkins to Drone CI

Learn why migrating from Jenkins to Drone CI enhances your CI/CD processes with modern cloud-native features and ease of use.

The Data is In: Harness CI is up to 4X faster than Other Solutions

New data shows that Harness Continuous Integration builds up to four times faster than other leading CI tools, which validates the impact of three important new feature enhancements: Cache Intelligence, Test Intelligence™ (a technology exclusive to Harness CI), and Hosted Builds.

How to Build and Deploy a Node.js Microservice with Harness

When it comes to modern software development, microservices are one of the hottest trends. This blog post will explain what microservices are, why you should use them, their benefits, and how to deploy them using Harness.

How to Create Multi-stage Docker Builds with Harness Continuous Delivery

This tutorial explains what multi-stage Docker builds are and how they can help speed up your development process.

Harness Honors Harnessians Who Served This Veterans Day

This month, Harness recognizes and celebrates Veterans day by highlighting two Harnessians who served. Learn about their stories.

Metrics Matter: The 4 Types of Code-Level Data Harness Service Reliability Management Collects

With increasingly complex systems and ever-growing expectations for digital customer experiences, traditional tooling and the shallow data they provide is insufficient. To fully understand what’s going on inside your application and maintain stability, this data must be collected at the code level.

Announcing Support for Apex in Harness Feature Flags

Harness introduces Apex SDK for Salesforce, enhancing feature management and speeding up app development. Learn how to get started.

Why Don't CTOs Have a Platform?

The cost of not having central space for CTOs is greater than you think. That tool sprawl, lack of documentation, and lack of a singular repository for process and project metrics takes its toll in the form of added work and developer toil. Teams need a platform with security and control.

Introducing the Harness Developer Hub - Beta Release

With the goal of furthering and simplifying developer and engineering education, we are pleased to announce the launch of the beta release of Harness Developer Hub, or HDH located at https://developer.harness.io.

CI/CD Challenges and How to Solve Them

This blog post will share four common CI/CD challenges and how to solve them.

Spotlight: Summer 2022 Harness Interns

This summer, we welcomed Siddhi Bansal and Ram Potham as interns. Read about the impactful experiences they had as part of their internships.

10 Signs You Don't Do Continuous Delivery

Identify common signs that indicate your team isn't practicing continuous delivery and learn how to overcome them.

Announcing Speed Enhancements and Hosted Builds for Harness Continuous Integration

Harness is excited to announce that there are new features for the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) module designed to deliver the fastest CI builds available in the market, along with hosted builds as a fully managed cloud service offering.

How to Configure Your Builds with JFrog Artifactory and Harness

This article will explain how a developer can easily use best-of-the-breed DevOps tools, like Harness and JFrog Artifactory, to test and build with CI and store the build artifacts.

Instant Feature Flags With Next.js

Unlock the power of feature flags in Next.js! Discover how to decouple deployments from feature releases and gain insights into feature performance using this approach.

The Basics of GitOps Secrets Management

Learn the basics of managing Git, GitOps, and GitOps secrets management.

Why 42% of Developers Are Thinking About Quitting Their Jobs

How you recruit and retain talented individuals is largely a question of how you sculpt their experience — namely, with modern software delivery tooling.

What is Chaos Engineering? Intro, Definition & More

Learn how Chaos Engineering tests system resilience by injecting failures, improving reliability, and preventing outages.

The Top Chaos Engineering Tools

Explore top chaos engineering tools like Chaos Mesh, Gremlin, and LitmusChaos. Learn how these tools enhance system resilience and reliability.

Join the Harness Hacktoberfest Open Source Software Celebration

Hacktoberfest 2022 is finally here! Our celebration encourages participation from and brings awareness to the open-source community.

Introducing Delegate Installation via Helm

This tutorial will show you how to install your Delegate on Kubernetes. Helm is a great way to install and manage delegates on your Kubernetes cluster as the package manager makes it easy to find and install the right delegate by swapping the values.yaml file

Getting Started With Helm

This tutorial aims to help readers deploy a Helm Chart from GitHub Repository. This repository contains a simple Helm chart that you can deploy on your public Kubernetes cluster to demo Helm with Harness!

Dynamic Triggers in Harness for git events

This article gives an overview of the dynamic triggers available in Harness and focuses on the working of these triggers according to the events marked in GitHub webhooks. This helps developers come up with custom triggers according to their use case.

Learn More About the Harness Resource Center

In this overview of Harness Platform resource center, users will learn the process to raise a support ticket, as well as how to get access to the recent release notes and API documentation.

Simplifying Multi-Step Dockerfile with Drone Pipeline

Despite the adoption of cloud architectures, many companies haven’t achieved optimal results. Learn how to simplify your multi-step Dockerfile deployment with Drone in the cloud.

Announcing Support for PHP in Harness Feature Flags

Harness introduces PHP SDK for Feature Flags, enhancing feature management for PHP developers. Start using it today.

Start Deploying in 5 Minutes with a Delegate-first Approach‍

We now offer a Delegate-first approach to Harness pipelines. Delegates make deployments easier and faster.

Kubernetes Application Deployment Strategies

Learn about rolling, canary, and blue/green deployment strategies for Kubernetes. Discover best practices for seamless application updates.

Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part One

In this two-part example, we will be trying to deploy a purpose-built vulnerable container into a Kubernetes cluster. Part one will focus on a basic integration and part two will focus on more operationalizing the integration.

Harness Celebrates Hispanic + Latino Heritage Month

Members of our Amigos de Harness employee resource group share their stories as they celebrate their vibrant culture with us all.

The Best Ways to Use Split with the Contentful API

Discover how to leverage Split's integration with Contentful to simplify your content management workflow and experiment with different content variations.

Now Generally Available: Harness GitOps-as-a-Service Delivers Scalability, Control, and Security to Enterprises

Harness is proud to introduce generally available enterprise capabilities for GitOps deployments.

What Puts Harness Among 10 Top Providers in Cloud Cost Management

Harness Cloud Cost Management has made its debut appearance in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization, Q3 2022, and we’re thrilled to be recognized as one of the top vendors in the industry.

Architecting Harness CI for scale

This tutorial will share insights into the architecture for Harness CI and talk about the major design decisions taken to handle scale with reliability and resilience.

What is CircleCI? A Look at Features and Use Cases

Explore CircleCI, its features, benefits, and use cases. Learn how this CI/CD tool can streamline your development process.

Confidence In Economic Storms (and Other Stressful Metaphors)

Discover how to improve software development during economic downturns. Learn to release features faster, optimize spending, and make data-driven decisions.

Up Your Software Game With Split Arcade

Introducing Split Arcade: Your Gaming Destination. Dive into a world of gaming excitement and fun. Join us on this thrilling adventure now!

Harness Security Testing Orchestration Module is Now Generally Available to Accelerate Secure Software Delivery

Harness's Security Testing Orchestration is now available, offering automated scans, governance, and improved collaboration.

Data-Led Actionability for VP of Engineering

Key engineering metrics to track and the actionability that is driven by the data and insights from DevOps tools.

Introducing codeAbout Livestream Series for the Harness User Community

We're excited to launch a new livestream series called codeAbout for the Harness user community. We'll be exploring all the nooks and crannies of the Harness ecosystem from CI to CD to Chaos with a rotating cast of special guests.

Introducing Harness Feature Flags

Harness Feature Flags allows organizations to deliver features faster, with less risk. Learn more and try it out today.

Announcing Feature Flags Analytics & Business Intelligence

It's here: analytics & business intelligence for Harness Feature Flags.

Announcing Support for Xamarin in Harness Feature Flags

Harness Feature Flags now supports Xamarin SDK, enhancing cross-platform mobile app development with feature flag capabilities.

Targeted Rollouts and Release Progression

Targeted Rollouts: release a change to a targeted audience before rolling it out widely. Learn the benefits and why you'd want to do that.

Standardizing CI Workflows with Harness Continuous Integration and Jira

Harness has a built-in integration with Jira, and this article will demonstrate how they work together with a simple setup and example.

The Engineering Knowledge Graph: The Missing Link to Unlocking Engineering Productivity

An Engineering Knowledge Graph (EKG) can be an effective tool in helping organizations better understand their bottlenecks.

Harness The Power of AWS EKS Anywhere, Now with Bare Metal

The announcement of EKS Anywhere Bare Metal brings Harness customers the velocity of application deployments in EKS to hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

Harness Celebrates International Women in Engineering Day

In celebration of INWED, we are highlighting a few of the rockstar women at Harness who were recently honored with the our Top R&D Recognition Award.

Harness Service Reliability Management Goes GA: Experience the Power of SLO Management Without the Pain

Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) SRM has officially reached General Availability (GA) status as of June 21, 2022.

Celebrating Pride Month & Amplifying LGBTQIA+ Voices

At Harness, one way we are recognizing Pride Month is by amplifying and celebrating the voices of our LBGTQIA+ team members.

Kubernetes Services Explained

Understand Kubernetes services like ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress. Learn their differences and best use cases for your applications.

Deploy Your Simple Node.js Application Using Local Docker Images in Minikube

Learn how to use a simple Node.js application to see how you can use your local images to build and deploy an application on minikube.

SPACE Metrics: How to Get Started

Learn how SPACE metrics provide a holistic approach to measuring developer productivity, focusing on well-being and satisfaction.

SPACE Metrics: What They Are and Why They're Important

Discover the SPACE framework's holistic approach to developer productivity, focusing on satisfaction, performance, and collaboration.

Harness Infrastructure Provisioners and ARM Templates - Part 2

In this second and final part of the series, we will learn how you can use Harness variables to templatize your ARM templates and how Harness provides rollback, which Azure does not.

Managing the 'Git' in 'GitOps': 4 Ways to Structure Code in Your GitOps Repos

This blog describes four ways of managing GitOps code leveraging branches, repositories, and folder structures.

Top 3 Challenges in Measuring DORA Metrics in Azure DevOps

A look at the challenges of accessing and measuring DORA metrics in the Azure DevOps platform.

Benefits of Chaos Engineering & More

Discover how Chaos Engineering enhances system resilience, improves incident response, and boosts team confidence and collaboration.

What is Gitlab CI?

GitLab CI is one of GitLab’s most successful set of features. Here's our complete GitLab CI Intro and Guide.

Harness AAPI Employee Spotlight

See how we're living our values as part of AAPI Heritage Month.

GitOps Tools & Kubernetes Gitops Tools

Explore top GitOps tools for Kubernetes like Argo CD, Flux, and Harness, highlighting features and usability.

Software Development Metrics 101

Just about everything you need to know about metrics and how you can use them in software engineering.

What Are GitOps Principles?

Learn about the foundational principles of GitOps and how they can make your life easier.

Complete GitOps vs DevOps Guide

While some may consider GitOps a replacement for the delivery component of DevOps, it is very much a natural extension of DevOps methodologies. Moreover, great GitOps relies on a broader DevOps culture and ecosystem to thrive. Let's learn more about the differences.

Benefits of GitOps & Why GitOps Is Important

Discover the key benefits of GitOps for improving CI/CD pipelines, enhancing collaboration, and boosting productivity. Learn why GitOps matters.

Introducing Harness Policy as Code, Powered by OPA

It's here: Harness Policy as Code helps organizations create and enforce policies on deployments, infrastructure, and more, providing developer velocity without sacrificing compliance and standards.

Top 10 Best Practices for DevSecOps

DevSecOps: A methodology where engineering teams run security scans throughout the SDLC to find and fix vulnerabilities before they make it to the end user. Let's learn some DevSecOps best practices.

Harness Recognized by Inc. as One of the Best Workplaces 2022

After receiving a few awards and placements on Best Workplaces lists, we reflected on why. Hint: It's all in the culture.

The Importance of Continuous Integration and Its Benefits

Discover the key benefits of Continuous Integration, from enhanced developer productivity to better code quality and faster delivery.

Quality vs Reliability

Quality and reliability: different, yet complementary. Find out how these two practices can take your software delivery processes to the next level.

What Is GitOps? Learn About Benefits, Challenges, and More

Explore what GitOps is, its benefits, and how to scale it for enterprise use. Learn about Harness GitOps-as-a-Service and its features.

International Women's Day, Part 3: Join Us in Celebrating Our Women@ Community

For International Women's Day, we're celebrating some of the amazing women at Harness. Join us for this three-part series - part 3 starts now!