Harness highlighted its February achievements, including the launch of Google Secrets Manager support for CD, the success of its ShipTalk podcast, and upcoming features like Azure support and CE What If Analysis, signaling ongoing innovation and community engagement.
Let’s be honest with ourselves: I think we’re all a little glad February is almost over with - especially after all the storms it brought. We happily come into March with renewed energy, big goals, and exciting events. We’re particularly looking forward to our SkilUp Day events, and our upcoming releases for March (scroll on down to the Looking Ahead section for some cool stuff). Additionally, we’re super excited about our ongoing CI Enterprise Beta - for those unaware, it started in January and so far the feedback is a-maaaa-zing! We can’t wait to show you. Overall, February was a good month - we got a great feature out, and maybe more importantly, published 3 new episodes of our podcast. Read on below to see what we’ve been up to.
Talkin’ Ship on the ShipTalk Podcast
One thing we’d like to put the focus on this month is our podcast, ShipTalk. We just posted Episode 8 a few days ago! So if you hadn’t yet heard that Harness has a podcast, feel free to browse our episodes and listen to one… or all eight!
Episode 1: Scaling Your Career and DevOps Organization – Nidhi Allipuram, AVP DevOps at Nationwide. Nidhi goes over the DevOps transformation at Nationwide.
Episode 2: Always Stay Curious – DevOps Leadership – Frank Moley, Platform Engineer at DataStax. Frank talks about how to instill the right culture at a company and why passion and curiosity are paramount in tech.
Episode 3: DevOps and Education – David Sudia, Senior DevOps Engineer at GoSpotCheck. David brings up important points when it comes to learning about DevOps and how to move the needle forward.
Episode 4: Scaling to Scale – Bob Chen. Director of DevOps at ADP. Bob talks about the art and tact required to scale your team, technology, and to further the craft.
Episode 5: Finding Your Tribe – Tracy Ragan, CEO at Deploy Hub. Tracy talks about her career and community journey and why it is important to find your tribe.
Episode 6: DevOps from the Ops Side – Chris Jowett, DevOps Architect at ABC Fitness. Chris talks about modern approaches to DevOps, such as not ever patching a system.
Episode 7: The Brass Tacks of Open Source – Tracy Miranda, Executive Director at CDF. Tracy chats through her experience creating thriving open source communities and practices from inception to maturity.
Episode 8: Washing Away Imposter Syndrome – Bart Farrell, Organizer at Data on Kubernetes Community. Bart talks about how he has made two leaps: one into tech, and one into a more bleeding edge/crypto part of technology, running stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
New Features
CD - Google Secrets Manager Support
Harness integrates with Google Secrets Manager to store secrets you create in Harness. Harness can also reference existing secrets from the Google Secrets Manager. These secrets can be leveraged for Deployments!
Notable Mentions in the Press
Harness has been in the press in the month of February. Here’s the scoop.
Upcoming Virtual Events
- SkilUp Day - Cloud Native and Serverless - Feb 25th, 2021
- SkilUp Day - Value Stream Management - March 18th, 2021
- DevOpsJS EMEA - March 29th, 2021
- AWS Summit Americas - April 28 - 29th, 2021
Looking Ahead
The mighty groundhog predicted 6 more weeks of winter, and we settled back into hibernation (well, if hibernation meant that we were madly crafting new software for our users), cozily awaiting spring, when some of our biggest updates will come. But, worry not: there are still some great things coming soon.
- So much Azure: More Azure support coming to a CD/CE near you in March! We’re constantly adding support for more cloud services and we’re looking at you, Azure!
- CE What If Analysis: We’ll talk about this more in depth in a blog post, but this should be available in the not too distant future.
- Harness Community Edition 2 (Drone): Imminent!
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I'm an IT geek who understands people and business. I started my professional journey as an Aerospace Engineer (and part time pilot) who was and still is completely infatuated with aircraft and spacecraft. But my love for computers was just as strong and I knew that I had to explore that path as well. My passion for faster performance that had started with video games and RAMdisks turned into a full fledged career as a Systems Administrator. I was called into countless firefights to fix what was broken and to figure out "why it was running so slow". Years of IT curiosity and experimentation had led me down a path as a Monitoring Architect that would allow me to create new performance monitoring architectures and initiate the cultural changes needed to reap the full rewards that only come with time and maturity. Every experience in my life and professional career was preparing me for my current role at Harness. Understanding new technologies, anticipating changes in the IT market, educating anyone interested about complex subject matter, sharing past experiences and applying lessons learned to new problems; these are the things that I love and I get to practice them every day. I get to focus on understanding core philosophical differences in software design and apply that knowledge to the marketing and sales process of Enterprise Software.