Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Harness Valuation Soars to $3.7 Billion With $230 Million in Series D Funding

Company Valuation More Than Doubles Amid Rapid Customer Adoption of Harness Software Delivery Platform

Build System vs CI System: What's the Difference and Why Does it Matter?

What's a build system? And what's the different between a build system and CI? In this article, we explain the 'build system vs CI' question and how CI servers play a part.

Harness Infrastructure Provisioners and ARM Templates

Let's learn the basics of ARM templates and how we can deploy them using the Harness workflow engine! Follow along with this tutorial.

3 Reasons to Correlate Cloud Costs to Engineering Releases

Involving developers in cloud cost management is paramount to cloud cost optimization. Here are 3 reasons we should involve them and correlate our costs to engineering releases.

Introducing Harness Chaos Engineering

Learn how Harness Chaos Engineering helps teams build resilient systems by simulating failures and identifying vulnerabilities.

The Best Open Source CI Tools

Are you on the market for a new Continuous Integration tool? We've compiled a list of open source CI tools to help you make a decision.

Harness CI With AWS VMs

With beta support comes a how-to guide! In this post, we’ll explore the features supported in AWS VMs and explore their design and architecture.

Intelligent Cloud AutoStopping for Google Compute Engine

AutoStopping strikes again! Learn to use it for Google Compute Engine with our step-by-step guide for cloud cost optimization. Try it now!

6 Actionable GitOps Best Practices to Help You Get Started

Looking into GitOps? Read this post to find actionable best practices you can implement when starting out with GitOps.

The Women of DevOps: Abigail Boakye

The Women of DevOps: Abigail Boakye, Senior Cloud, Unix, and Storage System Administrator.

Introducing AutoStopping for AWS RDS

Harness Intelligent Cloud AutoStopping Rules help manage idle Amazon EC2 instances and other cloud resources. Today, we are expanding AutoStopping to include support for Amazon RDS.

Harness Product Update | March 2022

Product Update March 2022: See what we've been up to and get updates on product features, events, webinars, HarnessU, and more.

Tyler Tech Takes CI/CD to the Next Level and Achieves Unparalleled Velocity With Feature Flags

Tyler Tech enhances CI/CD with Harness Feature Flags, achieving greater release velocity and control. Learn how they improved their software delivery.

International Women's Day, Part 2: 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 2 starts now!

Externalizing Strings in React - Part 2

Part 2 of our Externalizing Strings in React series! Here's how we can leverage TypeScript.

Harness Acquires ChaosNative

Harness Acquires ChaosNative —Bringing Leading Chaos Engineering Solution to Award-Winning Software Delivery Platform

ChaosNative is joining Harness!

Today, we are thrilled to announce to the LitmusChaos community, ChaosNative, the primary sponsor of the LitmusChaos project, is joining Harness to extend scalable chaos engineering to enterprises.

Harness Expands Software Delivery Platform

It’s here! Check out this announcement from Harness.

Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) - Key Capabilities

Let's take a deep dive into Service Reliability Management's key capabilities, such as SLO management, change impact analysis, service reliability checks, and more.

Introducing Harness Service Reliability Management

Harness Service Reliability Management is for teams that want a better way to balance the velocity of feature releases and bug fixes with the stability and reliability needs of a production environment.

Harness Security Testing Orchestration (STO) - Key Capabilities

Explore key features of Harness Security Testing Orchestration. Automate security scans, prioritize vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance.

Introducing Harness Security Testing Orchestration

Harness Security Testing Orchestration boosts application security with automated vulnerability detection and governance.

Source Code Management in DevOps

Explore the essentials of Source Code Management (SCM) in DevOps. Understand how SCM supports efficient collaboration and integrates development processes, with a focus on managing git repositories and streamlining CI/CD pipelines.

Announcing Support for Ruby in Harness Feature Flags

Harness now supports Ruby in Feature Flags. Leverage the new Ruby SDK for effective feature management and streamlined integration.

How Does Harness Use Harness CD?

Dogfooding at its best: here's how Harness uses Harness CD! Learn all about our CI and CD setups, and why we're investing in CD so much.

Breaking Barriers With External Feature Flags

Feature flags can streamline product development and deployment. Learn how to manage their lifecycle, measure their impact, and integrate them seamlessly into your tech stack.

DevOps DORA Metrics – Everything You Need to Know

A close look at DORA metrics and how they can help you deliver software faster.

It's International Women's Day! 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 1 starts now!

Git Branching in Harness

Git Branching provides an easy way to make config changes and reduces the time to develop, test, and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Find out how.

The Git Sync Experience in Harness

Git Sync can save you time and make CI/CD easier! Create and maintain new pipelines by simply creating/modifying YAML files in Git.

Feature Flags Overview For PMs: Getting Qualitative Feedback and Managing Releases

For PMs, feature flags can be great for providing qualitative feedback, managing betas, and experimentation. Learn more today.

How To Build Harness Dashboards

Here's an in-depth look at how to create your own custom dashboards.

Introducing Harness GitOps: Enterprise Security, Governance, and Scale for GitOps Deployments

Harness GitOps delivers scalability, control, and security - a new deployment strategy with less risk. Try it today!

What Is Split.io? A Look at Features and Use Cases

In this review, we go over what feature flags are, what Split is, pros and cons, use cases, and how it compares to Harness.

Announcing: Public APIs for Feature Flags

Public APIs are now available in Harness Feature Flags, enabling devs to work how they like to work: in code. Say bye to the UI!

Congratulations to Our Star Performers

Congratulate our Star Performers on the amazing work they've done over the year!

In-Depth: Harness Feature Flags Relay Proxy

In this post, we go in depth and teach you all about the Feature Flags relay proxy: architecture, caching, should you use it, and more.

Resource Optimization of Harness CD Community Edition - Part 1

Learn how we shipped Harness CD Community Edition with the resource requirements of 3 GB of memory and 2 CPUs.

Kubernetes Mistakes: A Beginner’s Guide to Avoiding Common Pitfalls

As a beginner, there are many common Kubernetes mistakes to avoid. We've compiled a list, along with solutions and tips to help bypass them.

Modern Software Delivery Best Practices & Software Delivery Management

In a world where software runs just about everything, business survival depends on incorporating modern software delivery best practices.

Measuring Software Delivery Performance: Introducing Harness Dashboards

We'll say it again, a picture is worth a thousand words. Come look at the pure magic Harness Dashboards are.

Harness Achieves SOC 2 Compliance

Harness achieves SOC 2 compliance! We are committed to the continuous improvement of our security programs and capabilities. Learn more now.

Auto-Pruning Orphaned Resources With Harness Kubernetes Deployments

Learn how Harness automates pruning of orphaned resources in Kubernetes, ensuring clean, efficient environments. Improve CI/CD workflows effortlessly.

How to Build Microservices in Spring Boot in 15 Minutes

Spring Boot streamlines building microservices by simplifying development and deployment. It supports rapid iteration, scalability, and robust integration, helping developers focus on innovation rather than infrastructure.

Harness Product Update | January 2022

Product Update January 2022: See what we've been up to and get updates on product features, events, webinars, HarnessU, and more.

Micro-Frontend Architecture in the Harness Software Delivery Platform

When it comes to micro-frontends, there are many benefits and challenges alike. See how we solved independent deployments and sharing of dependencies, logic, components, and more!

Announcing: GitOps for Harness Feature Flags

Native GitOps for Feature Flags is here! Read all about it - and all about how it'll make your life easier.

What Is an Artifact Repository?

An artifact repository securely stores artifacts generated during the build and deployment processes. Learn about key considerations today!

Feature Flags Best Practices also known as Feature Toggles

Testing in production, trunk-based development, using feature flags by default - these are all Feature Flags Best Practices. Learn more now, and make your feature flag experience as beneficial as it can be!

Migrating CD Jenkins Pipelines to Harness Using Helm

Making the switch from Jenkins pipelines to Harness CD was a breeze! Here was Corey's experience.

GitHub Actions Support in Harness CI

Harness CI integrates GitHub Actions, enabling streamlined CI pipelines with powerful pre-built actions for seamless software development.

Dashboarding, Or Data Visualization

Let's go over what the benefits of dashboarding (or data visualization) are, and give you some ideas of what to graph!

Lessonly by Seismic Says Goodbye to Jenkins and Toil With Harness CI Enterprise

Learn how Lessonly by Seismic went from toil with Jenkins to peace of mind with Harness CIE.

Meet the Harnessians: Sony Priyadarshini & Tathagat Chaurasiya

Meet the Harnessians! This month, we highlight January's Canary Award winners, Sony Priyadarshini and Tathagat Chaurasiya.

AutoStopping Rules for Kubernetes Clusters

Harness Intelligent Cloud AutoStopping Rules help manage your resources automatically to make sure that they run only when used, never when idle.

Did We Hurt the SDLC Movement by Trying to Bind CI to CD? With Nick Durkin at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021

Get the scoop on the latest SLDC, cloud cost, AI/ML news - and more - with Nick Durkin.

Harness Launches Source Available Continuous Delivery

Harness Continuous Delivery is now source available! Join us for a short tutorial on how to download and get going with CD Community Edition.

One Developer Experience - Build, Deploy, and Experiment: The Importance of Experimentation for DX

In this eBook excerpt, we go over the importance of experimentation in DX. Core to innovation work is to iterate, adjust, and optimize.

Attributing Costs Using Harness Cloud Cost Management

Cloud cost management involves everyone, from devs to finance. Attributing costs and optimizing cloud expenses are key. Learn how Harness CCM can help

Builder Factory Pattern for Testing – Evolve Your Code Without Breaking Tests

The builder factory pattern helps ensure that writing and maintaining tests is easier than manual testing. See how we leveraged it.

How to Fail Fast With Test Intelligence in CI

We all know, by now, that Test Intelligence is a-ma-zing. It saves you a ton of time, it encourages good testing practices, and it allows you to fail fast. See how that can help you.

Campspot Reduces Outage Risk by 78%

Campspot turned to Harness for reliable deployments with less outage risk.

Harness CI Enterprise for UI Builds

Let's go over how to create a CIE pipeline (and how we create our own), and go over caching strategies.

Externalizing Strings in React - Part 1

We solved string externalization, and we're sharing how we did it - and our requirements for it. Hint: we built an in-house solution.

Best Practices for Administering the Harness Software Delivery Platform

Users, User-Groups, and Resources - oh my! Learn some best practices on administering the Harness platform.

Simplifying Kubernetes Cost Management With Harness

How Harness ties into our 3 strategies to lower Kubernetes cloud costs: cost visibility, cost savings, and cost forecasting.

Harness YAML Editor - Code Away Your CI/CD Pipelines!

It was super important for us to provide a powerful YAML editor experience to end users, as they help them write/edit a CI/CD pipeline in an efficient, error-free, and dev-friendly way.

The Ultimate JSON Library: JSON.simple vs. GSON vs. Jackson vs. JSONP

We ran a benchmark test to see how fast four of the most popular JSON libraries for Java parse different sizes of files. This benchmark can help you decide.

Harness Continuous Verification Demystified

Let's dig deep into Continuous Verification and learn more about the technical aspects - to hopefully demystify the process a bit!

DevOps Adoption at Harness

In this blog post, we’ll go over DevOps adoption at Harness. We’ll give you a deep look into which strategies we implemented over time to embrace DevOps principles and culture.

Cloud Center of Excellence: What It Is, Best Practices, & More

A cloud center of excellence (CCoE) is the best-practice approach to drive cloud-enabled transformation. Learn how to properly build a CCoE.

Comparing Harness and Jenkins

Jenkins is a CI solution that can be extended to CD. Harness provides both CI and CD modules. Master CI/CD with Harness.

What Is Testing in Production & How to Avoid The Risks

Testing in production used to be a joke. It's not so funny now, because the best tests to learn from are the ones that most match reality.

Priceline Accelerates Move to GCP and Canary Deployments Using Harness

Harness helped Priceline quickly and easily build deployment pipelines from scratch for its migration to GCP and GKE. Find out how.

Ravi Yadalam at FinCon: How to Make Cloud Cost Management Easy

Ravi Yadalam, Head of Product for Cloud Optimization, recently spoke at FinCon Virtual Summit on how to make cloud cost management easy.

Log4Shell Response

Harness' response to the recent log4shell exploit. Find out how we remediated the situation and made sure you're safe.

The Harness Tooltip Framework

See how we selected our tooltip framework, how we implemented it, how we benefit from tooltips, and see examples of nicely-formatted tooltips.

Carvana Reduces Resource Creation Time by 92% With Harness

Learn how Harness helped Carvana decrease manual effort during a growth period. A process that used to take 4 hrs now takes 20-30 mins!

Cloud Cost Workload Recommendations

Learn how to configure Kubernetes workloads with limits and requests in this Cloud Cost Management Recommendations deep dive/tutorial. Start your cloud savings journey today!

Java NullPointerException: One Tiny Thing That’s Killing Your Chances of Solving It

In this post, we highlight the shortcomings of relying on stack traces alone for investigating Java NullPointerExceptions.

Announcing Templates for Harness CI

Templates will allow users to configure build steps and stages in their pipelines once and reuse them.

What’s the Difference Between Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD)?

Learn the differences between Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, their benefits, and best practices for implementing CI/CD pipelines.

Find and Fix Vulnerabilities in Your Pipeline With Snyk and Harness

Create your Snyk and Harness accounts and go! Follow along our step-by-step tutorial.

Harness Product Update | November 2021

Find out what we've been up to in November!

Kubernetes Cost Management: Where Does the Problem Come From?

In this eBook excerpt, we go into why Kubernetes costs can skyrocket, and we dive into what strategies we can use to remedy the issue. Think of this as a cloud cost management Kubernetes cheat sheet.

Intelligent & Automated Feature Flags With Harness

Did you know we designed Feature Flags with developers in mind? Find out more about how Git, Pipelines, and Automated Feature Verification can help you with all your feature flag needs.

Service Accounts: A Path to CI/CD Automation

We discuss Service Accounts, API Keys, and how DevOps teams can use them to build scalable and maintainable CI/CD infrastructure.

Event-Driven Architecture Using Redis Streams

Event-driven architecture uses events to communicate among various independent microservices. See how we implemented it at Harness.

Faster Incident Resolution

Let's keep exploring the wonderful ways feature flags can make life easier. On the docket for today: incident response.

Together, We're 500 Strong

We're 500 employees strong, and we couldn't be more proud about the journey we took to get here.

How Many Bugs Are Too Many? A Data-Driven Approach to Quality Debt at Harness

Speed isn't everything - quality and bugs must be addressed! Lest you really, *really* enjoy technical debt.

How to Write Your First Plugin for CI

In this article, we'll learn more about plugin steps, and we'll be creating a custom git plugin.

When to Use Feature Flags

When should you use feature flags? Are there cases where putting something behind a flag makes sense in one context but not in another? Here's a good little guide on knowing when to use flags.

Feature Flags With Python

If you want a quickstart to using Harness Feature Flags in your codebase with Python, this is for you!

Migrating From Jenkins to Harness CIE: A Journey

At first, we gave you the Product perspective. Now, we give you our actual planning and execution insights.

Tutorial: [GraphQL] How to Interact With the Harness API Using Python

The answer is always Python. In this tutorial, we learn how to interact with the Harness API using none other than Python.

Choice Hotels Deploys 85% Faster Using Harness

Harness helps us capitalize on the investments we’ve made in automation tools by streamlining everything into a single pipeline.

Is Standard Java Logging Dead? Log4j vs. Log4j2 vs. Logback vs. java.util.logging

In this post, we’ll explore the resulting data set from another angle, shed some more light on the dataset, and put the focus on the use of standard java.util.logging levels

Developer Horror Stories Contest

Migration nightmares, bloody bugs, ghastly failures - so much to sink our teeth into.

Harness Product Update | October 2021

See what we've been up to in October - and what's coming soon!