- Harness IaCM introduces native Terragrunt support, enabling true enterprise-grade orchestration at scale.
- Teams can now manage Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt in a single platform without fragmented tooling.
- Built-in governance, policy enforcement, and approvals streamline secure infrastructure operations.
- End-to-end visibility and drift detection improve reliability across complex, multi-environment deployments.
- The launch marks a major step toward a unified, multi-IaC control plane for modern infrastructure teams.
Bringing First-Class Terragrunt Support to IaCM
“We’ve been operating in a hybrid environment with both OpenTofu and Terragrunt, and Harness has made it much easier to bring those workflows together into a single, consistent platform with IaCM. The addition of Terragrunt support is a valuable step toward simplifying how we manage infrastructure at scale.”
— Lead Platform Engineer, Enterprise Customer
Infrastructure as Code is now a standard for modern cloud operations, with most enterprises using IaC to provision and manage environments. However, as adoption grows, so does complexity. Teams are no longer managing a handful of environments. They are operating across multiple regions, accounts, and services, often at massive scale.
This is where traditional approaches begin to fall short.
As organizations scale their infrastructure, Terraform alone is often not enough. Teams adopt Terragrunt to manage complex, multi-environment deployments, but they are often forced to stitch together fragmented tooling that lacks visibility, governance, and consistency.
At Harness, we are changing that.
Today, we are excited to announce native Terragrunt support in Harness IaCM, bringing it to full parity with Terraform and OpenTofu while delivering capabilities that go beyond what is available in standalone tooling. This is more than support. It is about making Terragrunt a first-class platform for enterprise infrastructure management.
With Harness IaCM, teams can now:
- Orchestrate complex Terragrunt environments with full visibility across all units
- Apply cost estimation, approvals, and policy enforcement natively
- Detect and manage drift across environments with granular insights
- View infrastructure changes at the resource level across orchestrated deployments
Terragrunt has become a critical layer for managing infrastructure at scale because it simplifies how teams structure and reuse configurations across environments. Harness builds on that foundation with deep, native integration, enabling platform teams to operate with both flexibility and control.
This is especially important for enterprises where a single deployment spans multiple environments and services. Harness abstracts that complexity while maintaining governance, auditability, and consistency.
Extending IaCM to a Multi-IaC Future
Terragrunt is part of a broader shift toward multi-tool infrastructure strategies.
Modern teams are no longer standardized on a single IaC tool. Instead, they operate across:
- Terraform and OpenTofu for provisioning
- Terragrunt for orchestration
- CDK for developer-driven infrastructure
- Ansible for configuration and automation
This creates challenges around consistency, visibility, and governance. Harness IaCM is built for this reality. We are evolving IaCM into a unified control plane for multi-IaC workflows, where teams can manage different frameworks with a consistent experience, shared policies, and centralized visibility.
This means:
- Eliminating fragmented pipelines across tools
- Standardizing governance across environments
- Gaining full visibility into infrastructure state and changes
Instead of managing infrastructure in silos, teams can now operate from a single platform across the entire lifecycle.
What’s Next for Infrastructure as Code?
The next phase of Infrastructure as Code is not just about supporting more tools. It is about making infrastructure systems more intelligent and automated.
We are investing in two key areas:
Expanded IaC Support
We are continuing to support modern frameworks like AWS CDK, enabling developer-centric infrastructure workflows alongside provisioning, configuration, and orchestration tools.
AI-Driven Automation
We are introducing intelligence into IaC workflows to simplify tasks such as drift management and optimization. This helps teams reduce manual effort and operate more efficiently at scale.
Together, these investments move IaCM toward a unified, multi-IaC platform that combines flexibility, governance, and automation. Terragrunt has become essential for managing infrastructure at scale but until now, it hasn’t had a platform that truly supports it. As infrastructure continues to grow in complexity, our focus remains the same. Helping teams move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence no matter which IaC tools they use.
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Mrinalini Sugosh is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Harness, specializing in developer marketing, technical storytelling, and go-to-market strategy for developer tools. She holds a Bachelor�s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a Master�s of Management from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
