Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

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.

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.

What Is an Artifact Repository?

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

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.

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.

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.

Meet the Harnessians: Sony Priyadarshini & Tathagat Chaurasiya

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Log4Shell Response

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

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.

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.

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.

Faster Incident Resolution

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Business Benefits of CI/CD

Explore how CI/CD boosts productivity, enhances software quality, reduces costs, and accelerates release cycles, fostering customer loyalty.

Harness Product Update | October 2021

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

User & Role Management in the Harness Software Delivery Platform

Get deep insights into how Harness leverages best-of-breed tech in user & role management - without compromising quality.

Datadog & Harness: Bringing Observability & Monitoring to Cloud Costs

It's here: Harness Cloud Cost Management right in Datadog! Read more to dive into your cloud cost savings journey.

The Benefits of Feature Flags in Software Delivery

Discover how feature flags improve software delivery by enabling safe, controlled releases. Enhance development flexibility and user experience.

Before You Deploy Your First Service...

You're about to deploy your first service in Harness... but wait! Here are some tips and tricks to make it easy as pie.

The Five Ss: Lessons From the DevOps Center of Excellence at TCS

Learn all about the Five Ss from Chandramohan Moorthyraj - Speed, Scalability, Security, Software, and Skill.

Forget Guava: 5 Google Libraries Java Developers Should Know

A look at five Google libraries that could make your life easier.

Announcing Support for Node.js in Harness Feature Flags

It's here: Node.js support for Feature Flags! More coming soon.

Shifting Left, Velocity, AI/ML, and More - 15 Minutes With Nick Durkin

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

Announcing Support for Python in Harness Feature Flags

It's here: Python support for Feature Flags! More coming soon.

GitLab and Harness From Someone Who's Been There, Done That

Been There, Done That: A deep dive look into the good, the bad, and the ugly of GitLab - and why Harness is king.

Announcing Support for .NET in Harness Feature Flags

It's here: .NET support for Feature Flags! More coming soon.

5 Feature Flag Use Cases You May Not Have Thought Of

From metrics to free trials, there's more to feature flags than meets the eye!

SMU Reduces Rollback & Deployment Time by Over 80%

SMU becomes a deployment powerhouse by leveraging Harness.

Anatomy of Harness CD Pipelines , Part One

This blog will explain the process behind coming up with a simple CD YAML. But first, let's learn CD terminology.

Test Intelligence: Move Fast, Don’t Break Things

Test Intelligence is a capability in our CI module that, at runtime, selects the tests that need to be run. Instead of running all the tests, which can take hours, the system selects a subset of tests and skips the rest.

Hack, Extend, Fly! Drone's First Hacktoberfest!

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source that was founded in 2014 and encourages participation as well as brings awareness to the open-source community.

Harness Product Update | September 2021

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

The Engineer Types, Part Deux: Which Are You?

There are quite a few engineer types out there. Last week, we went over four of them - and today, we're going over the last three. This was a super fun mini-series to write, and I hope you recognized yourself in one of these types!

Measuring Product Management Success: An Engineering Leader's View

Measuring success in product management can take time. Here are 5 criteria to look at.

Is Your Upstream My Downstream?

Microservices communication can get confusing with vague terms like "upstream" and "downstream." Remove ambiguity and use clearer terms with purpose to enhance understanding.

Learning the Science and Art of Effective REST API Design

Build rock-solid REST APIs! Learn the art and science of effective REST API design by exploring key principles to create intuitive and efficient APIs, enabling smooth system integration.

How to Prioritize the Developer Experience and Improve Output

Developer Experience (DX) is the overall interactions and feelings that the developer feels when working towards a goal.

Harness the Power of AWS EKS-Anywhere

Harness is excited to be part of the launch of EKS-Anywhere. As an intelligent software delivery platform, we can meet the expectation of successful application delivery - anywhere.

JUnit vs TestNG: Which Testing Framework Should You Choose?

A comparison of the features and use cases of JUnit and TestNG.

Our Journey Away From Jenkins and Into Harness CI

Harness, like many other companies, used Jenkins for the CI portion of our software delivery process. We had over 300 jobs generating an average load of approximately 4,000 builds per day.

Tutorial: [Monitoring and Observability] How to Send Kubernetes Delegate Logs to Splunk

Learn how to send Kubernetes delegate logs to Splunk using Harness. Follow this step-by-step tutorial for seamless log monitoring.

Benchmark: How Misusing Streams Can Make Your Code 5 Times Slower

Streams are an exciting feature in Java 8 but you need to be careful when using them.

Harness Product Update | August 2021

See what we've been up to in August 2021!

Metrikus Shortens Commit-to-Production Time by 66%

Metrikus made feature flag management easy with Harness. See how you can too.

Laying the Groundwork for an Effective FinOps Organization

Learn what FinOps is and how to effectively lay the groundwork for an effective FinOps organization. Being able to manage cloud spend is extremely important for Finance and Engineering teams.

Tutorial: [Artifact Servers] S3 - How to Provide Cross-Account Access Via Bucket Policies

Harness has a lot of customers with very different Artifact sources. One of the most famous is to use an S3 Bucket as the home for all kinds of artifacts.

Tutorial: [Observability] Publish Pipeline Events to Splunk HEC

In this brief tutorial, we’ll take advantage of Splunk HEC to integrate with Harness.

Change Management in the World of Continuous Delivery

Explore how Continuous Delivery transforms change management, streamlining processes and reducing bottlenecks for faster, more reliable deployments.

The Must Have Metrics Any DevOps and SRE Manager Should Measure

To understand what's happening inside each company, we need to measure the performance of DevOps and SRE teams.

Everything You Need to Know About Java 9

A look at the new features and capabilities of Java 9.

What Are Audit Trails & Why You Need Them in CD

An audit trail, also known as an audit log, is a chronological set of records that provides documentary evidence. The purpose of an audit trail can be used to trace a specific event, operation, or procedure.

Java Code Hacks – The Ultimate Deadlock Workaround

A creative workaround for a Jstack deadlock.

Discover Dollar Saves 70% On Their Cloud Bill

Discover Dollar made idle cost management easy with Harness. See how you can too.

Streamlining CI/CD and Optimizing AWS Cloud Spend

The cloud is a consumption-based model that can either be extremely efficient, or extremely costly. The below is how Linedata answered the above questions and reduced cloud spend.

Harness Product Update | July 2021

July was, as per usual, a busy month here at Harness! We’re super excited about an announcement that’s coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled near the start of August for great news about how we’ll help cut bill shock out of your life.

Single Digits Saves $108k in Deployment Effort

Single Digits made their migration easy with Harness. See how you can too.

5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

Rather than asking what specialized framework you need to build a new microservices architecture, let’s ask how we can use current frameworks to support the same goal.