Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

DevSecOps in the Age of AI – Assess Your Readiness Now

Explore how AI is reshaping DevSecOps and assess your organization's readiness with our updated Engineering Excellence Maturity Assessment. This assessment has been redesigned to tackle modern software development lifecycle, security, and productivity challenges.

Bridging the Gap: Empowering Product Teams with Seamless Experimentation

Collaboration between Product Managers and Engineers on experimentation yields improved results.

Harness University Growth - Harness Certified Experts - 3000th Certification Issued

Harness issued our 3000th certification in the Harness Certified Expert Certifications.

Elite Engineering Teams Don’t Guess—They Prove Impact

Harness SEI gives engineering leaders actionable insights to prove impact, boost efficiency, and protect creativity by eliminating guesswork.

Introducing Traceable Cloud WAAP: Built for the Way Applications Work Today

Discover Traceable Cloud WAAP, the first unified DevSecOps innovation from Harness + Traceable. Purpose-built to secure modern, API-driven applications with deep context, real-time protection, and seamless deployment across any environment.

Using Feature Flags with Open Telemetry

Learn how to use feature flags with Open Telemetry to improve observability following a step by step example.

Top Challenges in Database DevOps

Modernize database deployments with CI/CD, governance, and performance insights—eliminate risk and deploy database changes with confidence.

Harness Named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for GitOps

Harness was named a Leader in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for GitOps, earning top scores for features, innovation, and enterprise readiness. See why we lead the way.

Early 2025 Harness CD Enhancements

Harness is continuously innovating to make deployments faster, easier, and more reliable with powerful new features and enhancements.

The Executive Playbook: Communicating Engineering Metrics for Maximum Business Impact

Engineering leaders need to communicate metrics that drive business outcomes. This playbook explores how CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical leaders can leverage Harness SEI to translate engineering performance into executive-aligned insights, improving efficiency, productivity, and strategic influence.

8 Essential Questions to Boost Developer Productivity

Transform your development team with expert insights on measuring productivity, implementing effective metrics, and leveraging AI to accelerate software delivery.

Persona-Based Metrics: Revolutionize Your Software Engineering Team Performance

Transform software teams with targeted metrics for each role - boosting productivity, aligning goals, and driving data-based improvements.

Harness Cloud: The Ultimate Managed Build Infrastructure for Fast, Secure CI

Discover how Harness Cloud accelerates CI with 8X faster builds, secure on-prem integrations, and built-in governance. Run builds on any language, any OS—effortlessly.

Building a Robust Engineering Metrics Program

Software teams need data to improve. Learn how to transform raw data into actionable objectives and key results (OKRs & KPIs).

4 Myths, 4 Realities About Experimentation

Uncover the truth about software experimentation as we debunk common myths and reveal how it accelerates development, improves insights, and reduces risk—making it an essential tool for engineers and product managers driving innovation and safe rollouts.

Resilience Testing Your Applications Under Load Using Grafana K6

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Chaos Engineering—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

Optimizing Bazel Projects with Harness CI Intelligence

Speed up Bazel builds with Harness CI’s automatic remote caching and Build Intelligence, reducing build times by up to 4x with zero manual setup.

GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack: tj-actions/changed-files - Impact Assessment and Mitigation Guidance

Uncover the risks of the tj-actions/changed-files attack and see how Harness SCS and Traceable provide proactive protection against supply chain threats.

OpenID Connect (OIDC): A Smarter Way to Secure Pipeline Deployments

OpenID Connect (OIDC) enhances pipeline security by enabling secure authentication and authorization without storing long-lived credentials. By leveraging OIDC, CI/CD pipelines can dynamically obtain temporary access tokens, reducing the risk of credential leaks and improving overall security posture. This approach ensures seamless, scalable, and automated access management for cloud-native deployments.

Elevating Pipeline Visibility: Harness Pipeline Notifications for Datadog

Unlock DevOps insights! Integrate Harness pipeline events into Datadog for real-time monitoring

Platform Engineering: Beyond the Trough of Disillusionment

Platform engineering's evolution beyond the trough of disillusionment, focusing on product mindset and business outcomes rather than just technology.

Large Segments, Targeted Impact: Controling Feature Rollouts at Scale

Feature management and experimentation with built-in “Large Segments” helps ensure safe, efficient, and effective targeted releases.

Accelerating Gradle Builds with Harness CI Build Intelligence

Discover how Harness CI optimizes Gradle builds with Build Intelligence, reducing build times and improving resource usage. Benchmark tests show Harness CI delivers up to 6x faster builds compared to GitHub Actions.

Elixir SDK Is Available for Feature Management & Experimentation

The new Elixir SDK enables teams to integrate Harness feature flagging and event tracking directly into their Elixir applications.

Step-by-Step Guide to Regrettably Maintaining a DIY Feature Flag Tool

If you've decided to build and maintain a homegrown feature flag solution, here's a little guide on what to expect: complexity, hidden costs, and a drain on resources.

Linux Resilience Testing with Harness Chaos Engineering

Ready to embrace resilience testing? These five Linux resilience tests are just the beginning. Keep testing, keep learning, and make your systems resilient! 💪🐧🔥

Flagship 2025: The Feature Management & Experimentation Summit–Now On Demand

If you missed our premier summit dedicated to the future of feature management and experimentation, you can still catch all the thought-provoking sessions at your leisure.

Mobile DevSecOps: Optimizing Mobile App Delivery with Automation and CI/CD

Discover how Mobile DevSecOps transforms app development by integrating security throughout the CI/CD pipeline. Learn how automation tools like Fastlane and Harness CI help mobile teams overcome environment management challenges, reduce build times, and deliver secure, high-quality apps faster to market.

Announcing Harness DevOps Essentials: Your Complete DevOps Platform to Supercharge Your Productivity

Harness DevOps Essentials is a new licensing model designed to provide a unified, scalable, and enterprise-ready DevOps platform. It consolidates key DevOps capabilities—including Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Security Test Orchestration (STO), and Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM)—into a single package, eliminating tool sprawl and simplifying procurement. This model enhances productivity, accelerates deployments, and strengthens security while maintaining predictable costs.

End-to-end testing should not be guesswork

Discover why traditional end-to-end testing based on assumptions falls short and learn how data-driven testing using real user behavior can improve software quality.

Harness Completes Split Integration and Adds New Features to Expand Feature Management and Experimentation Offering

Discover how Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) integrates Split to streamline feature releases, experiments, and insights in your DevOps workflow.

Exciting News: We’ve Merged Harness and Traceable To Create A New Leader In Secure Software Delivery

Harness and Traceable to merge to create a new leader in secure software delivery.

Harness IaCM Module Registry

Learn how to enable and use OpenTofu and Terraform Module Registry in Harness IaCM to store and manage reusable infrastructure components.

Harness Continuous Delivery Q4 Updates: More Power, More Control

Discover the latest Harness CD & GitOps updates, enhancing deployments, governance, and scalability

Using Feature Management & Experimentation to Make an AI-Model More Human

Discover how HeySam leverages Harness Feature Management & Experimentation to fine-tune AI responses, making them sound more human and tailored.

Harness Adds 8 New Features to Redefine Resiliency with AI-Powered Chaos Engineering

Discover how Harness Chaos Engineering is redefining resilience with AI-powered automation and next-gen features. Learn about seamless service discovery, tailored chaos experiments, and intelligent safeguards that help teams proactively tackle system weaknesses, scale resilience practices, and minimize downtime.

It takes Generative AI to test Generative AI

Explore how Harness AI Assertions revolutionize testing for generative AI applications, ensuring accuracy and reliability with cutting-edge techniques.

Speed Up Your CI Pipelines by 8X with Docker Layer Caching

Discover how Docker Layer Caching in Harness CI can dramatically accelerate your software development workflow, reducing build times by up to 8X and optimizing infrastructure costs. Learn key strategies for efficient CI/CD pipeline performance and infrastructure optimization.

Introducing Harness Incident Response - Coming Soon

Most incidents start with change—so why manage them in isolation? Learn how Harness Incident Response connects the dots between alerts, changes, and workflows, powered by an AI SRE working alongside your team. Discover a smarter, more collaborative way to prevent, triage, and resolve issues faster, all while staying in control of your entire software delivery lifecycle.

Experiment Before You Launch: a Lesson Learned from the Sonos Debacle

What can we learn from the botched Sonos launch? Next time you’re pressured to release software quickly, maximize safety and impact with experimentation.

How to Create Multi Source Applications with Harness GitOps

Learn about the recent introduction of multi-source application support, where you can now configure and manage applications that pull from multiple repositories.

Integrating Chaos Engineering with AI/ML: Proactive Failure Prediction

In this blog, we explore how AI/ML can be integrated with chaos engineering to predict failures and take proactive steps to address the vulnerabilities uncovered.

Transforming End-to-End Testing with Generative Agentic Workflows

Discover how Generative AI and agentic workflows revolutionize E2E testing, overcoming LLM-assisted coding bottlenecks. Learn about automated intent-based testing, simplified test creation, and visual testing advancements.

Managing Environment Variables and Modules Across Repositories: A Strategic Guide

Discover how separating environment variables and reusable modules into dedicated repositories can improve security, streamline collaboration, and scale your infrastructure codebase effectively. Learn practical strategies and explore how tools like Harness simplify this process.

Transforming Pipeline Automation with Event Relay Webhook Triggers in Harness

This blog walks you through the advantages of this feature and how you can configure it for a seamless Continuous Delivery experience.

How to Migrate Off Jenkins: The Road to Modern CI/CD

Learn how to migrate off Jenkins with a step-by-step playbook. Discover how to audit, standardize, and modernize your CI/CD pipelines to meet today’s cloud-native and scalable software delivery demands.

Broken Trust: What Harness’ 2024 Report Reveals About Software Failures and Consumer Frustration

Uncover findings from Harness’ 2024 Software Failure Sentiment Report on outages, consumer frustration, and the demand for software reliability.

2025 DevOps Predictions: Code Quality Crackdowns, AI Security Risks, and Cross-Functional Engineering Teams

Harness, the AI-Native Software Delivery Platform company, today released its predictions for 2025. Field CTO Nick Durkin comments on five trends that will shake up the software development industry in 2025.

Spreadsheets vs IDP Scorecards for Service Health & Initiative Tracking

This blog will go over why you will see more value in IDP Scorecards vs using Spreadsheets for tracking Service Health & Initiatives.

The Four Stages of Infrastructure Automation

Discover the journey of infrastructure automation in this blog, from its early days of version control to advanced self-service platforms with robust governance. Learn how tools like OpenTofu revolutionize infrastructure management, enabling consistency, scalability, and innovation while reducing complexity and risk.

Evaluating Internal Developer Portals: A Comprehensive Guide

Evaluating different Internal Developer Portals can be cumbersome. There are so many things to think about. Let's get into the most important things.

Top 7 Cloud Cost Reporting Strategies Every FinOps Team Should Know

Cloud cost reporting is essential for optimizing cloud expenses, improving financial visibility, and making data-driven decisions. Learn best practices for cloud cost management and how tools like Harness CCM can enhance budgeting, forecasting, and resource optimization.

Rethinking Blue-Green Deployments for Infrastructure

Modern blue-green deployments enable safe infrastructure evolution by testing and optimizing configurations without disrupting production.

Why Databases For DevOps?

Discover how integrating databases into your DevOps practices can streamline workflows, automate deployments, and reduce errors. Learn how Harness Database DevOps empowers teams to accelerate database changes with confidence and visibility.

Auto Remediate Security Vulnerabilities with Harness AI

Discover how Harness AI integration with STO accelerates vulnerability remediation with automated, actionable guidance across diverse security scanners.

Unlocking Cloud Efficiency: IaCM Meets Cost Management

Discover how integrating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Cloud Cost Management can help predict, monitor, and control cloud expenses. Learn strategies for cost optimization, automated policies, and real-time insights to streamline your cloud operations and avoid budget overruns.

KubeCon 2024 Recap: The Future of AI and Kubernetes in Cloud-Native Ecosystems

Discover the latest AI and Kubernetes advancements from KubeCon North America 2024. Dive into sessions on scaling AI workloads, GPU scheduling, and cloud-native infrastructure, and see how Harness’s AI-Native Software Delivery platform is enhancing DevOps productivity and security. Explore insights from keynotes, AI-driven workflows, and co-located events that are shaping the future of cloud-native tech.

Database Refactoring: How to Safely Move a Database Column

This blog post will walk you through a real-world example of how to safely alter a database schema to support new requirements with 0 downtime, data integrity, and the ability to rollback if needed.

Cloud Cost Management best practices for multi-cloud environments

Explore top cloud cost management best practices, from anomaly detection to workload rightsizing, to help you minimize cloud spend while optimizing resources. Learn actionable tips for better cloud cost visibility and efficiency.

Optimizing Query Performance for Large Datasets Powering Dashboards

This blog highlights our journey about how we fixed our looker powered dashboards with slow query performance to rapid dashboard loading times

Secure Builds from Vulnerability Detection: Harness Open Source and Chainguard Images for Dockerfiles

Learn how to secure your Dockerfile builds by detecting vulnerabilities early with Harness Open Source and Chainguard images. This guide shows you how to scan base images, fix security issues, and enhance your development pipeline with minimal effort.

Harness Continuous Delivery Q3 Updates

Discover Harness’s latest updates for Continuous Delivery & GitOps, including native Helm support, enhanced templating for efficient reuse, and advanced GitOps features like automated drift detection and improved rollback.

Use Chaos Engineering to Implement Cost Savings Strategies on AWS

This blog explores how organizations can use Chaos Engineering to support FinOps strategies for AWS, aiming to optimize cloud costs while maintaining system resilience. It highlights five top AWS cost-saving strategies—such as rightsizing compute resources and switching to Spot Instances—and explains how Chaos Engineering experiments can validate these optimizations, ensuring they won’t negatively impact application performance.

The Future is Cloudy: Exploring the Benefits of Cloud Development Environments

This blog will teach you about what Cloud Development Environments also known as CDE's are. You will also learn about the benefit of CDE's, and why CDE's matter.

So what exactly is Harness Open Source and why should you care?

Harness Open Source unifies code hosting, CI/CD automation, and artifact management, streamlining the entire software lifecycle. Gitspaces™️ provide ready-to-use development environments, while robust CI/CD pipelines automate testing and deployments with built-in secret management for secure operations. The Artifact Registry centralizes storage, simplifying release management and ensuring consistent workflows. All-in-one, Harness Open Source enables efficient, end-to-end development and delivery.

OpenTofu: The Open-Source Alternative to Terraform

The blog discusses OpenTofu, an open-source fork of Terraform that maintains a community-driven development approach and fully open-source licensing, in contrast with Terraform's shift to more restrictive licensing. OpenTofu aims to provide a flexible and customizable infrastructure-as-code solution while preserving the open-source ethos. Copy Retry

Code Repository Best Practices

These source code management best practices can help developers manage their development pipelines securely and efficiently.

How Do You Build a Successful DevOps Ecosystem

Learn how to build a successful DevOps ecosystem with Harness best practices. Discover tips and strategies to enhance your CI/CD pipeline

Cloud Cost Automation Explained: How These 11 Tools Can Help You Save Big

Discover the best cloud cost automation tools that can optimize cloud spending, improve resource utilization, and boost financial efficiency. Learn how AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Harness CCM, and more help streamline cloud cost management for DevOps teams and organizations.

Best Artifact Repository Tools

Discover the best artifact repository tools to streamline your software development, enhance collaboration, and ensure consistent deployments. Learn more now!

5 Best Practices for Building Effective Internal Developer Portals

Learn about the 5 best practices for building an effective Internal Developer Portal. How to prioritize Developer Experience (DX), focusing on automation and governance, and more!

Unify Cloud Cost Visibility with Harness CCM Backstage Plugin

Discover how Harness's CCM Plugin for Backstage unifies cloud cost management with your developer portal.

Navigating the Pitfalls of Internal Developer Portals: What You Need to Know

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) have emerged as vital tools for enhancing developer efficiency and collaboration. However, like any technology, they come with their own set of challenges. Here, we’ll explore some common pitfalls associated with IDPs and how to avoid them, ensuring you derive maximum value from your investment.

Gitpod SaaS is being deprecated. What are your options?

Gitpod SaaS is being deprecated. Harness Cloud Development Environments (CDE) provide all the same capabilities of Gitpod and more and are available as SaaS.

Understanding CI/CD Platforms: The backbone of modern DevOps

Learn about CI/CD platforms and pipelines

Leveraging Data in Your CICD Pipeline: A Comprehensive Guide

In this blog, we'll explore several use cases that showcase how to integrate data and databases into your CI/CD pipeline. This blog provides a high-level overview of this end-to-end story and will link to more detailed blogs on this topic as we add them to the series.

What is Cloud Cost Governance?

Discover the essentials of Cloud Cost Governance, a strategic framework for managing and optimizing cloud spending. Learn how it ensures financial accountability, cost efficiency, and alignment with business goals while utilizing cloud resources effectively.

Understanding Chaos Engineering and Its Role in Kubernetes Resilience

Explore how Chaos Engineering strengthens Kubernetes resilience by proactively testing failure scenarios. Learn the best practices for injecting chaos into your Kubernetes environments, the importance of fault tolerance, and how tools like Harness Chaos Engineering automate resilience testing to ensure high availability and reduced downtime.

Power of pipelines + Harness chaos engineering

Leverage the benefits of pipelines and Harness chaos engineering, such as approvals and notifications by executing chaos experiments in a pipeline.

What is a DevOps Life Cycle

Understand how the DevOps lifecycle can benefit your team.

Introducing Harness Certified Implementation Engineer

Introducing a new certification path for Partner; becoming a Harness Certified Implementation Engineer.

Introducing Harness Cloud Development Environments

Harness announces its new Cloud Development Environments module: on-demand development environments pre-configured with everything you need to start coding.

Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery

Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery.

Introducing Harness AI Productivity Insights

Harness introduces AI Productivity Insights to help engineering leaders measure, understand, and optimize the impact of their AI Code Assistant investments.

Harness Delivers End-to-End Software Supply Chain Security with SCS Module

Harness now delivers end-to-end software supply chain security with the SCS module.

Introducing Harness Database DevOps

Discover how Harness Database DevOps simplifies the integration of database changes into CI/CD pipelines. In this blog, we introduce this powerful new module, designed to automate schema management, ensure visibility across environments, and enforce governance policies. Learn how DBAs and developers can collaborate more effectively to streamline database migrations and deliver software faster and more reliably.

Introducing Harness Open Source: Revolutionizing Software Delivery for Developers

Harness Open Source offers an end-to-end software delivery platform that enhances productivity and accelerates software development cycles, eliminating the need to juggle disjointed software development tools.

Introducing AI-Native Harness Artifact Registry

Harness announces it's new Artifact Registry module, an AI-native central artifact management solution.

Harness Announces New AI Agents for Software Delivery

Harness announces AI Assistants for Coding, Testing, DevOps and Productivity Insights.

Enforcing Database Change Policies

How our customers enforce database change policies

Best Practices for Using Policy as Code in CI/CD Pipelines with Harness

Harness's Policy as Code automates governance in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security and compliance. It allows teams to define, enforce, and manage policies efficiently through predefined rules, flexible enforcement levels, and centralized policy sets, ensuring smooth adoption and scalability.

Streamline and Stay Aligned: How IDP and IaCM Keep Your DevOps in Sync

Explore how Internal Developer Portals (IDP) and Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) can work together to streamline DevOps processes. This blog discusses the benefits of centralizing resource access through IDPs and automating infrastructure management with IaCM to maintain consistency, prevent configuration drift, and enhance team efficiency. Learn how these tools can help your organization overcome common challenges in modern software development and operations.

7 Key Approaches to Achieve Cloud Cost Visibility

Discover 7 key approaches to achieve cloud cost visibility including anomaly detection, tagging, etc. Learn how tools like Harness CCM can help in achieving cloud cost visibility and enhance cloud cost management.

Evolution of Harness Infrastructure

Discover how we streamlined operations by standardizing our cloud-native stack with Infrastructure as Code, accelerating environment setup from weeks to hours.

5 Essential AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

Discover 5 effective strategies to manage AWS cloud costs, including using Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and resource optimization techniques. Learn how tools like Harness CCM can help reduce expenses and enhance cloud efficiency.

Today’s State of Feature Management and Experimentation

We partnered with LeadDev to survey 500 engineering leaders on how they're releasing software today. The findings underscore the necessity for robust feature management & experimentation solutions with release monitoring.

Continuous Integration Tools

Continuous Integration tools comparison. 1. Jenkins 2. GitHub Actions 3. GitLab 4. CircleCI 5.Harness

GitOps Your Terraform or OpenTofu

Learn how to easily integrate Terraform or OpenTofu with GitOps. Follow our quick guide to set up a Git repository, configure infrastructure, create pipelines, and manage changes effectively.

Best practices for awesome CI/CD

Learn CI/CD best practices for successful implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery

What Is A DevSecOps Pipeline?

A DevSecOps pipeline is a CI\CD pipeline with integrated security tooling and processes for application security testing, remediation, and security & compliance governance.