devops modernization

Harness CI

vs.

GitHub Actions

UPDATEd ON

13 Feb

2025

Flexible governance

Harness delivers flexible governance at scale through policy-as-code using the Open Policy Agent and granular RBAC.

Fast CI

Harness provides selective running of tests, caching dependencies, docker layers, and build tasks, thus speeding up builds significantly.

Secure and fast hosted builds infrastructure

Harness provides SLSA L3-compliant lightning-fast build infrastructure without the fuss of managing build infrastructure.

How does

GitHub Actions

compare?

GitHub Actions allows GitHub users to build, test, and deploy code directly from GitHub’s source control management solution. Harness CI provides seamless integration with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbuckets, etc., while speeding up builds by up to 8x using Test Intelligence and smart caching features.

Start building for free Get a demo

Continuous Integration

GitHub Actions

Test Intelligence - Faster Builds Through Selective Test Execution

Caching software dependencies

Caching docker layers

Caching build tasks

Container & Cloud Native

Any Source Code Manager

Containerized Pipelines

Containerized Plug-ins

Custom Dashboards

Security Scanner Integrations - SAST, SCA

Deduplication of Scanner Results

Automated Prioritization of Vulnerabilities

SLSA L3 (v 1.0) - compliant build infrastructure

Pipeline-as-Code

Visual Pipeline Editor

Pipeline Templates

3rd Party CI Integrations

3rd Party Git Integrations

Secrets Management

3rd Party Approvals (SNOW/Jira)

Policy-as-Code (OPA)

AI Guidance for Failure Remediation

Cloud-Agnostic

Support for Mobile Builds

No items found.

Next-generation CI/CD For Dummies

Stop struggling with tools—master modern CI/CD and turn deployment headaches into smooth, automated workflows.

Detailed feature comparison

Most featured comparison

Harness

FME

vs.

LaunchDarkly

Harness FME combines feature flags with built-in measurement and experimentation into a single, secure platform that cost-effectively scales.

Harness

IaCM

vs.

Hashicorp Terraform

Compare Harness to a top legacy infrastructure-as-code management tool.

Harness

CI

vs.

Travis CI

Harness recently reaffirmed its investment in the open-source solution with a massive release where a sleeker interface, new visual pipeline builder, governance and security features, and real-time debugging tools were added.