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Continuous Delivery & GitOps

Code Deployments for the Autonomous SDLC

Harness Software Delivery Agent builds continuous delivery pipelines, runs them, and fixes what breaks. Your policies provide strict guardrails for trust at every scale, so every deployment is fast and safe.

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98%less maintenance toilAncestry.com
75%faster deploymentsUnited Airlines
36×increase in deployment velocityZeotap
6×increase in release frequencyKeller Williams
Release Orchestration

Agents orchestrate releases

Harness Worker Agents orchestrate the entire deployment lifecycle so you can move fast with governed execution.

Simplify complex releases
AI Verification & Rollback

Protect every deployment

Harness Software Delivery Agent measures every canary and blue-green deployment against your baseline (error rates, latency, etc). When something deviates, it acts before your users notice.

Observability-native. Integrates with Datadog, Dynatrace, Elastic, Prometheus, and 15+ logging and monitoring tools out of the box.

Scriptless advanced strategies. Canary and blue-green deployments with traffic splitting integrations, metric thresholds, and progressive rollout. Say "goodbye" to custom scripts.

Instant root-cause summaries. When a deploy fails, AI cross-references the knowledge graph to understand your builds, commits, and past incidents to surface the cause immediately.

Human-in-the-Loop. Run fully autonomous verification or notify an engineer of a suspected problem, and Harness will trigger a rollback only when someone tells it to.

Automate rollback decisions
Enterprise GitOps

Scale Argo CD

Harness transforms Argo CD into a complete, enterprise-grade platform, providing a single pane of glass to manage thousands of applications across multiple clusters.

Unified Management. Manage health, versions, and bulk operations for all Argo instances from one dashboard.

Native Appsets & Rollouts. Create and manage complex Application Sets and Rollout strategies via a first-class UI wizard.

Built-in Secrets. Reference Vault or AWS secrets directly in manifests without insecure third-party plugins.

Governance & Compliance. Enforce OPA-based guardrails and use FIPS-compliant hardened images out of the box.

GitOps at scale
Workload Intelligence

Deploy anything, anywhere

Kubernetes, serverless, multi-cloud, on-prem VMs, mainframe, or managed agent runtimes. The Software Delivery Agent understands each target and handles the mechanics, so a new environment doesn't mean a new pile of scripts.

Every target, one model. Cloud native, on-prem, serverless, hybrid, and edge deployments share the same pipeline, approvals, and audit trail.

Scriptless strategies. Canary, blue-green, and rolling updates adapt traffic management to each infrastructure type automatically.

Custom deployment types. Legacy mainframes, edge devices, and proprietary platforms plug in as first-class deployment templates.

Infrastructure on demand. Provision environments in-pipeline with Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Blueprints, or Harness IaCM.

Deploy to any target
Delivery Agent deployment capabilities

The CD control plane

Harness Software Delivery Agent is purpose-built for the complexity of modern continuous delivery. Fast and safe, from single-service canaries to sprawling multi-cloud orchestration.

GitOps control plane

Tame Argo sprawl with centralized management and one audit trail for all GitOps operations.

AI pipeline builder

Describe what you want to deploy in plain language. Harness AI generates a production-grade pipeline in seconds.

AI verification & rollback

AI monitors every deployment against your observability tools. When something goes wrong, it automatically rolls back before users feel it.

Reusable templates

Define golden paths once. Teams self-serve with versioned, governed pipeline templates. No copy-paste drift, no reinventing the wheel.

Deploy anything, anywhere

Multi-cloud, on-prem, serverless, Kubernetes, mainframe, or traditional VMs. One pipeline model covers every architecture.

Policy as Code governance

OPA-based guardrails enforce deployment rules automatically. Approval gates, freeze windows, and immutable audit trails built into every pipeline.

Advanced deployment strategies

Scriptless canary, blue-green, and traffic splitting with automatic progressive promotion. No custom scripting, no institutional knowledge required.

Secrets & config management

Inject secrets and environment configs at runtime, never hardcoded, always encrypted, fully auditable across every pipeline.

Built for every role

Continuous delivery that works for your whole team

Build once, govern forever

Create golden-path pipelines teams actually use

Policy enforcement without blocking developers

Full self-service with guardrails, not gates

Why teams switch

From legacy CI/CD tools to Autonomous Delivery

Legacy CI/CD tools rely on brittle scripts, blind spots at release time, and war-room rollbacks. Harness replaces manual CI/CD pipelines with intelligent, context-aware Code Deployments built for the Autonomous SDLC.

Scripting

Brittle, hand-rolled deployment scripts that break with every infrastructure change.

AI builds and maintains pipelines in plain language. Review the underlying YAML or use an easy visual editor.

Release Toil

Coordinating releases across teams with spreadsheets, Slack threads, and manual status checks. No single view of what shipped and what didn't.

Real-time release intelligence across every service, environment, and team. One dashboard replaces the coordination chaos.

Manual Checks

Manual rollbacks that require war-room triage, log archaeology, and someone who was on-call the last time this happened.

AI monitors every deployment against your observability stack and rolls back automatically. Your root-cause analysis is ready before your on-call wakes up.

Ship fast with compliance

Policy, RBAC, audit trails, and freeze windows are built into every pipeline, not added afterward. Define rules once; Harness enforces them everywhere, for both humans and AI agents.

Policy as Code (OPA)

Enforce rules like "all prod deployments require approval" or "no deployments on Friday" — automatically, across every pipeline.

Deployment freeze windows

Block deployments during sensitive periods — earnings, holiday peaks, or maintenance windows. AI respects every freeze.

Enterprise RBAC

Fine-grained access control scoped to teams, projects, or individual environments. AI agents follow the same model.

Immutable audit trail

Every deployment, approval, override, and rollback recorded with full context. SOX, HIPAA, and PCI compliance built in.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
GDPR
DORA
NIS2
Customer stories

Trusted by engineering teams at scale

75% faster deploys
“Harness gave us best practices out of the box with reusable templates so developers don't need guesswork.”

— Raji Koppala, Senior Manager of DevOps, United Airlines

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Months saved on time-to-market
“Time-to-market for our eCommerce platform benefited hugely. We saved months of time. Months.”

— Michael Alderson, Principal Cloud Architect, Ulta Beauty

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96% less maintenance toil
“Harness now empowers Ancestry to implement new features once and then automatically extend those across every pipeline, representing an 80-to-1 reduction in developer effort.”

— Ken Angell, Principal Architect, Ancestry.com

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Integrations

Works with your entire stack

Integrates with GitHub, Slack, ServiceNow, Wiz, and most SDLC tools.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Ansible
Ansible
AppDynamics
AppDynamics
Argo CD
Argo CD
AWS
AWS
AWS ECS
AWS ECS
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
AWS Spot
AWS Spot
Azure
Azure
Azure Web Apps
Azure Web Apps
CircleCI
CircleCI
CloudFormation
CloudFormation
Datadog
Datadog
Docker
Docker
Dynatrace
Dynatrace
Google Cloud
Google Cloud
Helm
Helm
Jenkins
Jenkins
JFrog
JFrog
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Mainframe
Mainframe
OpenShift
OpenShift
Prometheus
Prometheus
Salesforce
Salesforce
ServiceNow
ServiceNow
Slack
Slack
Snyk
Snyk
Terraform
Terraform
Vault
Vault
Explore more integrations in our docs
FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Progressive Delivery manages risk by gradually introducing software to users. Harness integrates Feature Management, Canary Releases, Blue-Green Deployments, and Automated Rollbacks natively. This allows teams to decouple deployment from release and conduct controlled experimentation to assess feature impact, enabling more frequent and safer releases.

CI automates building and testing whenever developers commit code changes. CD is the separate practice of automatically preparing and reliably releasing tested code through environments into production. Harness provides distinct CI and CD capabilities that work together or independently from existing CI tools.

GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and deployments. While Argo CD manages cluster state, enterprises often experience "Argo sprawl." Harness serves as an Enterprise Control Plane, providing centralized visibility, promotion orchestration, and AI-powered verification across all deployments.

CI tools aren't designed for enterprise deployment complexity, resulting in brittle scripts and risky manual rollbacks. Purpose-built platforms like Harness offer context-aware AI, script-free management across architectures, and intelligent safety features such as automated rollbacks that CI tools lack.

Harness manages any application and architecture, including stateful services. Database deployments can be orchestrated as pipeline stages, ensuring schema migrations align properly with applications while enabling unified verification and rollback.

An end-to-end solution unifying tools and processes for building, testing, securing, and deploying software. Harness CD anchors this platform, integrating with CI, security testing, and cost management for a cohesive code-to-production experience.

Implement clear controls and traceability: require peer review before production changes, conduct testing including security checks, document approval processes, deploy via auditable automation preventing bypasses, and maintain immutable logs of all actions.

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