Harness Product Update | May 2024
At Harness, we have been hard at work so you can delight your customers without facing software delivery toil. Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.
At Harness, we have been hard at work so you can delight your customers without facing software delivery toil. Here is what has been changing in the previous month across Harness Products.
Harness acquires Split Software
We’re excited to welcome Split to the Harness team. Together, our joint solution will be the most powerful Feature Management and Experimentation offering in the industry. Our joint solution will offer a robust solution that enables customers to build, deploy, and release software while running A/B tests to experiment and measure feature adoption.
For more info, read our announcement blog post or press release.
New Navigation: All of your pipelines in one place
Streamline your Harness experience with our intuitive new navigation. Users of multiple Harness modules can find all of a project’s pipelines and executions in one place rather than digging into each module. Users of just one module can keep that focus if they choose.
Learn more
Chaos Engineering
Accelerate the chaos experimentation by 5x or more
Harness Delegate can discover the resources on Kubernetes clusters and new chaos experiments are auto created. This brings in the best of the breed experience for users in onboarding their chaos journey.
For more details, read the announcement blog
Cloud Cost Management
Commitment Orchestrator:
Experience improved control and visibility with the latest Commitment Orchestrator updates, including a new Audit Trail, enhanced RBAC, Child Account Exclusion support, and a Live actions details view providing potential savings, spend, and source Reserved Instance (RI) details.
Cloud Asset Governance:
Gain comprehensive governance insights with support for new Asset Governance recommendations across the following resources:
- AWS: cache-cluster, S3,Redshift, and Redshift-snapshot.
- GCP: redis, gke-cluster, bq-dataset, function, bucket, dataflow-job, loadbalancer-address, cloud-run-service
Recommendations & Anomalies:
Our Recommendations & Anomalies features have been enhanced to provide a more efficient experience. Streamline your anomaly management with support for comments in your Anomaly Workflows Ignore list. Recommendations (K8s and cloud) will now be presented within the context of a perspective, giving you quick access to relevant recommendations based on the scope of your costs. We've also expanded the look-back periods for node pool recommendations, now providing insights for the last 60 and 90 days [previously max 30 days].
Code Repository
Code suggestions and secrets scanning
Harness Code Repository now supports Code Suggestions so that developers can easily collaborate in pull requests. It also includes scanning for secrets and OSS vulnerabilities pre-commit. Harness Code Repository also integrates seamlessly with SEI, CI, and other Harness modules.
See how Code Repository catches hardcoded secrets pre-commit
Other updates:
- Learn more on how you can streamline code ownership in your Git repository.
- Learn how to migrate a GitLab group to the Harness Code Repository.
Continuous Delivery
Marking pipelines as failed: Pipelines may now be Failed by users in addition to Aborted. To understand the differences, see this blog.
Spinnaker to Harness Migration: Harness now offers a tool to automate the migration of Spinnaker pipelines to Harness CI & CD. Learn more.
Harness for MLOps: With the rise of AI-powered apps, the importance of extending CD to machine learning workflows is growing. Learn more.
Continuous Integration
Intelligence features are now available for self-hosted build infrastructure
CI users can now accelerate their builds by configuring S3-compatible caching in self-hosted build infrastructures. Users can configure the endpoint URL, region, bucket name, access key, and secret key. Contact Harness Support to enable them.
Learn more about Docker Layer Caching
Other updates:
- Utilize the GitHub Actions Plugin step in your Harness Continuous Integration pipeline to create a versatile and robust continuous integration workflow. Learn more.
- Protect your pipeline against Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE) using Harness CI. Learn more.
Infrastructure as Code Management
Drift Detection alerts on differences between stored and actual states
Harness IaCM now provides automated drift detection and reconciliation, preventing discrepancies between your infrastructure's desired and actual states. This ensures that your infrastructure configurations stored in git are the single source of truth for infrastructure changes.
Internal Developer Portal
New Catalog Ingestion APIs Enhance Harness IDP Customization and Automation
Empower teams to extend and customize their Harness IDP efficiently, reducing the need for extensive coding and manual updates. These APIs allow dynamic metadata updates in the Software Catalog, enabling features like test coverage display and ServiceNow CMDB integration without manual YAML edits.
For more details, read the announcement blog
Security Testing Orchestration
Harness partners with Wiz and Semgrep, delivering new scanner integrations for STO
Harness just became Wiz’s first certified CI/CD partner! Through Harnes STO, the Wiz scanner can be added as a step– natively– in your pipeline for IaC, SAST, Secret Detection, Container, and SCA scans. We’ve also partnered with Semgrep to enable native orchestration of the Semgrep Open Source and Semgrep Code SAST scanners.
For more info, read our Wiz announcement blog and our Semgrep announcement blog