Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery

Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery.

Harness Announces New AI Agents for Software Delivery

Harness announces AI Assistants for Coding, Testing, DevOps and Productivity Insights.

Understanding CI/CD Platforms: The backbone of modern DevOps

Learn about CI/CD platforms and pipelines

Leveraging Data in Your CICD Pipeline: A Comprehensive Guide

In this blog, we'll explore several use cases that showcase how to integrate data and databases into your CI/CD pipeline. This blog provides a high-level overview of this end-to-end story and will link to more detailed blogs on this topic as we add them to the series.

What is Cloud Cost Governance?

Discover the essentials of Cloud Cost Governance, a strategic framework for managing and optimizing cloud spending. Learn how it ensures financial accountability, cost efficiency, and alignment with business goals while utilizing cloud resources effectively.

Understanding Chaos Engineering and Its Role in Kubernetes Resilience

Explore how Chaos Engineering strengthens Kubernetes resilience by proactively testing failure scenarios. Learn the best practices for injecting chaos into your Kubernetes environments, the importance of fault tolerance, and how tools like Harness Chaos Engineering automate resilience testing to ensure high availability and reduced downtime.

Power of pipelines + Harness chaos engineering

Leverage the benefits of pipelines and Harness chaos engineering, such as approvals and notifications by executing chaos experiments in a pipeline.

What is a DevOps Life Cycle

Understand how the DevOps lifecycle can benefit your team.

Introducing Harness Certified Implementation Engineer

Introducing a new certification path for Partner; becoming a Harness Certified Implementation Engineer.

Introducing Harness AI Productivity Insights

Harness introduces AI Productivity Insights to help engineering leaders measure, understand, and optimize the impact of their AI Code Assistant investments.

Introducing Harness Cloud Development Environments

Harness announces its new Cloud Development Environments module: on-demand development environments pre-configured with everything you need to start coding.

Introducing Harness Open Source: Revolutionizing Software Delivery for Developers

Harness Open Source offers an end-to-end software delivery platform that enhances productivity and accelerates software development cycles, eliminating the need to juggle disjointed software development tools.

Introducing AI-Native Harness Artifact Registry

Harness announces it's new Artifact Registry module, an AI-native central artifact management solution.

Harness Delivers End-to-End Software Supply Chain Security with SCS Module

Harness now delivers end-to-end software supply chain security with the SCS module.

Introducing Harness Database DevOps

Discover how Harness Database DevOps simplifies the integration of database changes into CI/CD pipelines. In this blog, we introduce the beta release of this powerful new module, designed to automate schema management, ensure visibility across environments, and enforce governance policies. Learn how DBAs and developers can collaborate more effectively to streamline database migrations and deliver software faster and more reliably.

Enforcing Database Change Policies

How our customers enforce database change policies

Best Practices for Using Policy as Code in CI/CD Pipelines with Harness

Harness's Policy as Code automates governance in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security and compliance. It allows teams to define, enforce, and manage policies efficiently through predefined rules, flexible enforcement levels, and centralized policy sets, ensuring smooth adoption and scalability.

7 Key Approaches to Achieve Cloud Cost Visibility

Discover 7 key approaches to achieve cloud cost visibility including anomaly detection, tagging, etc. Learn how tools like Harness CCM can help in achieving cloud cost visibility and enhance cloud cost management.

Streamline and Stay Aligned: How IDP and IaCM Keep Your DevOps in Sync

Explore how Internal Developer Portals (IDP) and Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) can work together to streamline DevOps processes. This blog discusses the benefits of centralizing resource access through IDPs and automating infrastructure management with IaCM to maintain consistency, prevent configuration drift, and enhance team efficiency. Learn how these tools can help your organization overcome common challenges in modern software development and operations.

Evolution of Harness Infrastructure

Discover how we streamlined operations by standardizing our cloud-native stack with Infrastructure as Code, accelerating environment setup from weeks to hours.

5 Essential AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

Discover 5 effective strategies to manage AWS cloud costs, including using Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and resource optimization techniques. Learn how tools like Harness CCM can help reduce expenses and enhance cloud efficiency.

Today’s State of Feature Management and Experimentation

We partnered with LeadDev to survey 500 engineering leaders on how they're releasing software today. The findings underscore the necessity for robust feature management & experimentation solutions with release monitoring.

Continuous Integration Tools

Continuous Integration tools comparison. 1. Jenkins 2. GitHub Actions 3. GitLab 4. CircleCI 5.Harness

GitOps Your Terraform or OpenTofu

Learn how to easily integrate Terraform or OpenTofu with GitOps. Follow our quick guide to set up a Git repository, configure infrastructure, create pipelines, and manage changes effectively.

Best practices for awesome CI/CD

Learn CI/CD best practices for successful implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery

What Is A DevSecOps Pipeline?

A DevSecOps pipeline is a CI\CD pipeline with integrated security tooling and processes for application security testing, remediation, and security & compliance governance.

Harness named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms

Harness has been named a leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms

Harness Guardrails and Resilience

Discover how combining Open Policy Agent (OPA) and ChaosGuard strengthens both compliance and resilience in DevOps. This blog highlights how these tools work together to secure and fortify your infrastructure against the challenges of modern DevOps environments.

DevOps, Discussions, and Droids: Harness's Adventure at DevOpsDays Halifax

Explore key DevOps trends from DevOpsDays Halifax 2024, including AI's impact on operations, CI/CD optimization, and advanced observability techniques. Gain insights from industry experts on navigating the DevOps chasm and enhancing developer productivity.

Cloud-based CI/CD

In a cloud-based CI/CD platform, your CI/CD software runs on cloud infrastructure instead of on-premises.

4 Essential Strategies for Azure Cost Optimization

Optimize Azure costs by understanding usage, leveraging Reserved Instances, autoscaling, and using tools like Harness for efficient cloud management.

Unlock New Possibilities with Custom Recommendations

Custom Recommendations powered by Cloud Asset Governance enables you to create a tailor-made recommendation with just a simple YAML. The Harness AI Development Assistant (Aida™) automatically generates these YAML policies. Custom recommendations leverage the power of policy-as-code and the simplicity of recommendation workflows to simplify lifecycle management.

Harness Product Updates August 2024

Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.

Securing Containers With DevSecOps

DevSecOps is the most effective means of detecting and remediating known vulnerabilities in application containers.

Simplify Serverless and AWS SAM Deployments with multiple runtime support and pre-execution commands

Managing different runtime versions and handle complex dependencies without slowing down your deployment pipeline.

What is Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)?

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is an approach to application security testing whereby an application (typically a web application or service) is analyzed for security vulnerabilities when it is running, using a tool that simulates attacks and observes the application’s corresponding behavior.

IaC is Great, But Have You Met IaCM?

This blog highlights the critical role of Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) in enhancing IaC practices, ensuring security, compliance, and efficiency in managing complex infrastructure at scale.

What Is Application Security Testing?

Application Security Testing is the practice of scanning various aspects of an application throughout its development lifecycle for the purpose of uncovering and remediating known vulnerabilities, thus strengthening the application’s security posture.

Basics of CI CD pipelines

A CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that enables teams to deliver software more frequently and reliably by automating the integration, testing, and deployment processes.

Learn About Database DevOps at KubeCon

Announces our upcoming talk at Kubecon and provides a introduction to the database devops content that will be discussed.

GitOps vs. DevOps: What's the Difference?

Understand the differences between GitOps and DevOps, their workflows, and which approach(es) best suit your organization.

What Is Software Supply Chain Security?

Organizations need to secure their software supply chains against a growing number of sophisticated attacks aimed at software artifacts and DevOps toolchains.

CI/CD Tools: The basics

CI/CD, which stands for continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment, aims to streamline and accelerate the software development lifecycle

DevOps Audit Trail: Introduction, Benefits, and How Harness Does It

Discover the critical role of DevOps audit trails in enhancing security, ensuring compliance, and boosting operational efficiency.

What is Continuous Integration Testing

Continuous Integration (CI) testing is integral to the CI process that focuses on automatically verifying the correctness and quality of code changes.

Continuous Integration Best Practices

The Ideal Continuous Integration (CI) process is essential for maintaining software functionality and quality.

Comparison: Argo CD vs Flux

Compare Argo CD vs Flux, the top GitOps reconcilers for Kubernetes

Harness Product Updates July 2024

Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.

What is Cloud Cost Management?

Cloud cost management is a comprehensive approach to optimizing your cloud resources, ensuring you get the most value from every dollar you spend.

What Is A Software Supply Chain?

Learn about the software supply chain and how it needs to be secured against a growing number of sophisticated cyber attacks.

How Changes to Database Schemas Slow Down Application Delivery

Accelerate app delivery by automating database schema changes, ensuring data integrity, and adopting a DevOps approach. Learn key strategies here.

AWS CodeCommit Deprecated - What Should You Do Next?

Migration to a new SCM is always challenging. The right considerations and migration strategies can significantly help with the process.

What is DevSecOps?

Learn about DevSecOps and how you can approach the seamless integration of security throughout the SDLC to deliver secure software at high velocity.

CI/CD Security: An Overview

Discover the importance of maintaining a secure "chain of custody" in CI/CD processes and how Harness can help.

9 Key Benefits of CI-CD

Examine the nine most impactful benefits of continuous integration and continuous delivery

Software Supply Chain Security Best Practices

Learn best practices for securing the software supply chain and establishing better governance, risk, and compliance practices throughout the SLDC.

What Is Shift Left Security?

Learn about shift left security and how to implement it for delivering more secure software without degrading the developer experience or productivity

Global Software Outages Don’t Have to Happen. Here’s a Better Way.

Implementing modern DevOps practices can significantly reduce disruptions and enhance operational stability in complex multi-cloud environments.

SLSA: Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts

The Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) is a crucial framework for ensuring software artifacts are tamper-free.

Harness Recognized as a Strong Performer in Forrester's Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Wave

Harness has been named a Strong Performer by The Forrester Wave™ for Cloud Cost Management and Optimization (CCMO) in Q3 2024.

Top Benefits of Continuous Integration

The main benefits of continuous integration is the ability to easily maintain, update, and scale codebases and provide customer satisfaction.

Harness SCS Now Features Repo Security Posture Management (RSPM)

Harness expands its supply chain security offerings with RSPM, giving customers the ability to identify misconfigs in code repos

Software Testing in Continuous Delivery

Software testing and Continuous delivery are complimentary practices to drive rapid and safe releases of software.

What is the GitOps Workflow

Learn about GitOps workflows, a modern software development approach that uses Git repositories to manage infrastructure and applications.

Seamlessly Migrating Git Repositories from Azure DevOps to Harness

Discover common challenges and their solutions for migrating Git repositories from Azure DevOps to Harness in this high-level guide.

Why You Should Use OpenTofu Instead of Terraform

This blog post highlights the reasons for switching from Terraform to OpenTofu.

Engineering Metrics That Matter to Your Bottom Line

Discover the latest update in the Business Alignment report and learn how it helps you link engineering efforts directly to specific business outcomes

Get Started With Harness Chaos Engineering Free Plan

Harness Chaos Engineering leverages the open-source LitmusChaos project to offer a comprehensive and free platform for implementing chaos testing

Announcing the ServiceNow integration for Harness SEI

We're excited to announce that now you can integrate Harness SEI with the ServiceNow platform.

Harness Product Updates June 2024

Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.

Harness Launches Three New AI-Powered Cloud Cost Optimization Features

Harness CCM unveils three powerful features for automated cloud governance, commitment management, and container orchestration to slash cloud costs.

LitmusChaos Cloud Migrates to Harness Chaos Engineering Free Plan

LitmusChaos Cloud has transitioned to Harness Enterprise SaaS, offering a free plan with full enterprise features and limited monthly experiment runs.

Travis CI Alternatives To Consider

Are you looking at Travis CI - or looking for alternative CI tools? Look no further - we've got you covered.

Overcoming GitOps Scaling Challenges with Harness

At an enterprise level, scaling GitOps becomes a massive challenge. Here's how you can scale your GitOps solution.

Running CircleCI Orbs Without CircleCI

Learn how to run Orbs both locally and in alternate environments, such as Harness CI

Automating Kubernetes Resource Discovery and Chaos Experiment Creation

Harness Delegate automates Kubernetes resource discovery and chaos experiment creation, enhancing efficiency and resilience in chaos engineering

Effective Branch Rules for Your Git Repo

Learn how to use branch rules in Harness Code Repository to maintain code quality, enforce best practices, and streamline your Git workflow.

What's New with Harness AIDA: Elevate Your DevOps with Enhanced AI Capabilities

Discover the latest updates in Harness AIDA, including automated code generation, dashboard generation, and more to elevate your DevOps

Automation of Harness Continuous deployment entity creation using Terraform resources and OpenTofu

Stepwise tutorial for creating Harness entities and how you can reuse existing terraform scripts to create resources.

Mastering CODEOWNERS: Streamline Code Ownership in Your Git Repository

Leverage CODEOWNERS to streamline code review. Understand syntax, best practices, and ensure the right people manage the right parts of your codebase.

Harnessing Chaos Safely: An Introduction to ChaosGuard

Discover how Harness ChaosGuard revolutionizes chaos engineering by providing a secure and controlled framework for managing system disruptions. This

Welcome Split to the Harness team

Harness is acquiring Split Software to deliver the most powerful Feature Management and Experimentation offering in the industry.

Protecting Against Poisoned Pipeline Execution

Learn the different types of PPE attacks, and how to minimize or eliminate the threat to your automation pipelines.

Building robust and resilient Harness pipelines with Failure Handling support

Let's talk about what are the different scenarios for failure and how we effectively handle failures in Harness pipelines.

Celebrating $150M In New Financing to Accelerate Innovation

Harness secures $150M to empower developers and reduce toil. Focused on AI, it aims to transform software delivery, boosting productivity and success.

Gitness Can Keep a Secret: Exploring Secret Detection Capabilities

Learn how Gitness detects and prevents secret leaks in Git repositories, boosting security and protecting sensitive data.

Feature Flags and Cloud Cost Management

Discover how this strategic combination can help you manage feature releases while monitoring cloud costs effectively.

Integrating third party tools with Harness Deployment pipelines for improved efficiency

Streamline deployments by integrating third-party tools with Harness pipelines for better testing, performance, and security.

Harness partners with Semgrep through integration of SAST scanners in Harness STO

Announcing Harness's partnership with Semgrep, featuring the integration of Semgrep open source SAST and Semgrep Code into Harness STO

Harness becomes first certified CI/CD platform vendor to partner with Wiz

Announcement blog detailing the partnership with Wiz and integration of Wiz CLI into Harness STO

Migrating a GitLab Group to Harness Code Repository

Learn how to migrate a GitLab group to Harness Code Repository seamlessly. Follow steps for setup and CI pipeline execution.

Seamlessly Migrate from Spinnaker to Harness

Learn how to easily migrate pipelines from Spinnaker to Harness CI and CD.

GitHub Actions Plugin for Reusable CI/CD Pipelines

Harness CI now supports GitHub Actions for reusable CI/CD pipelines, enhancing efficiency and consistency in your development workflow.

MLOps and DevOps: Bridging the Gap

Learn how MLOps and DevOps converge to optimize machine learning projects, from inception to deployment, leveraging CI/CD for efficient delivery.

Harness the Power of AI for Effortless Cloud Governance

Take control of cloud costs with Harness Cloud Cost Management's AI-powered governance. Automatically identify waste, right-size resources, and enforce smart policies for proactive cost savings.

Streamline Multi-Environment Delivery with Painless Traffic Routing

At Harness, our mission is to simplify your delivery process. We're excited to introduce our latest feature: out-of-the-box traffic routing. This enhancement empowers you with east-west traffic routing capabilities. Choose your preferred routing service provider, whether it's SMI or Istio, and you'll be up and running in no time!

Shipped by Harness - April 2024 Product Updates

Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.

Instructor-Led Training Now Available from Harness University

Today with the goal of accelerating your success, we are now offering in-depth training courses on Harness Modules as part of Harness University.

Introducing new Catalog Ingestion APIs to make Harness IDP truly yours

These capabilities allow you to update or ingest additional metadata in the Software Catalog for components and use it to customize your Catalog pages UI, build new Scorecard checks and provide dropdown pickers in the Workflows UI.

Announcing Business Alignment 2.0 - Connect Engineering to Business Value like Never Before

Announcing a new experience for measuring Business Alignment metrics on Harness SEI.