Harness introduced Terragrunt integration and enhanced custom dashboards in its CD module, streamlining infrastructure as code practices and improving deployment visibility. Additionally, the company released an ebook on modernizing CI and hosted the {unscripted} conference, featuring industry leaders like Dave Farley.
May brought quite a bit to fruition for us Harnessians. We released our Terragrunt integration and Remote Manifest From a Non-Git Source. We also released an ebook on Modernizing CI. Aaaand the big one: we worked tirelessly (seriously can’t say enough good things about everyone involved) on getting ship done for our {unscripted} conference, with a keynote speech from Dave Farley, the Godfather of CD. If you haven’t registered yet, you should probably do that now. Go on. We’ll wait.
Talkin’ Ship on the ShipTalk Podcast
Episode 12: What is O11Y? Observability Demystified with Chris Riley from Splunk. Chris’ background spans years of professional services and being an advocate. Chris is part of the Observability Panel at {unscripted} 2021 and gives us a background on O11Y, aka Observability.
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New Features
Harness CD - Terragrunt Support
Terragrunt is a wrapper tool around Terraform. It allows users to practice the principle of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) in their Terraform code. Using Terragrunt, users define their Terraform code once and do not have to repeat themselves for multiple environments. Terraform code is often identical throughout various environments with potential differences in the input, output, and state files. Managing the state files, modules, input variables, and output variables is maintenance for Terraform users. Developers gravitate towards Terragrunt because of how easy it is to maintain components while also helping them define code a single time.
Harness lets users configure Terragrunt in the product. This experience is similar to configuring Terraform or CloudFormation in Harness.
Learn more about our new Terragrunt integration here.
Harness CD - Custom Dashboard Enhancements
Harness had enhanced the deployment and service widgets contained within custom dashboards. Users can now filter and group deployment by environment type to compare non-production deployments to production deployments. Users can also use service widgets to show what type of services are being deployed and see what deployment strategies are being used by deployment pipelines. For more information check out our docs.
Notable Mentions in the Press
- Ravi Lachhman, Evangelist, featured in 2 publications:
- Ravi Lachman on the State of Developer Happiness, Engineer Burden and Avoiding Burnout
- Progressive delivery: Testing software through limited releases
- Rohan Gupta, Senior Product Manager, featured in TNS: Harness Extends Drone for CI/CD Feature Parity on Multiple Clouds
Upcoming Virtual Events
- JFrog SwampUp - EMEA - June 2nd - 4th
- {unscripted} Mid Year - June 16 - 17th
- cdCon - June 23rd - 24th
- Techstrong - July 14th - 15th
- SkilUp Days CI/CD - July 22nd
Upcoming Webinars
- Harness Webinar: Cloud Spend 101: Avoiding Bill Shock & Optimizing Kubernetes Cost - June 3rd
- Linux Foundation: Experiments With Software? Introduction To Progressive Delivery - June 8th
- RedHat: DevNation Federal - June 8th - 10th
- JFrog: Finding Balance With Moving Fast And Not Breaking Things - June 10th
Looking Ahead
Other than that giant announcement we promised you for {unscripted} conference in June, there’s still some good stuff coming for you soon. In the next few weeks/months, here’s what’s coming at ya:
- Supporting Secrets with Webhook triggers - Harness will be able to authenticate incoming GitHub webhooks using secrets to ensure the webhooks are coming from a trusted source.
- Granular Access Control - Harness will add a new permission to rollback workflows. This allows users to roll back when a deployment fails even if they don't have the permission to execute the workflows.
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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.