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Gitness: Your Ultimate Open Source Development Platform

Gtiness is a new alternative to the limited open source version control solutions available with the breadth and depth of features to empower development teams to write and deliver code with safety and speed.

Elevating AIDA™: Harness Unveils 7 New Innovative Capabilities

Harness is proud to announce 7 new AIDA features that span across the software delivery lifecycle. These capabilities empower engineers and team members with tools that increase productivity, streamline software delivery processes, and enhance governance. 

Step into Tomorrow: Harness Internal Developer Portal is Ready for the Public

Learn how developers are getting ship done with Harness Internal Developer Portal. This is your exclusive invitation to the future of software development.

Introducing Harness Software Supply Chain Assurance (SSCA)

Boost Your DevSecOps Practice With SLSA-based Artifact Integrity and SBOM-driven Open Source Governance

Harness Releases Gitness– Open Source Git Platform

Release of first significant open source developer platform in nearly a decade offers a unified solution for source code management and CI pipelines, improving collaboration, enhancing security, and automating tasks in software development workflows.

Harness Announces Engineering Leadership Community to Codify Engineering Excellence Standards

Become Harness Certified in CI and CD & GitOps at Any Level

Harness now offers three levels of certifications in both our CI and CD & GitOps modules.

Introducing the Harness CLI

We are pleased to announce the public preview launch of the new Harness CLI.

How Quizlet Automates Pull Requests for Cloud Cost Recommendations

Learn how Quizlet empowered their engineers to do more with cloud cost recommendations by creating an automated pull request workflow that increased engineering engagement by 75%, and saved over 40% on their Kubernetes workloads.

Accelerating Harness CD & GitOps Learning for New Users

To solve the need of new user learning especially for the Harness CD & GitOps Free plan, we are pleased to announce the public preview of a new “Get Started” UI that takes the user through a guided learning journey.

AI-Assisted DevOps: My First AIDA™ Experience

Let's discuss AI in DevOps and why it's a game-changer for software delivery teams.

September 2023 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

Introducing Flag Archiving and Restoration for Smart Feature Flags

You now can archive and restore smart feature flags giving developers more flexibility to manage and address issues with the deletion of a flag.

Harness Announces the 4th Edition of Chaos Engineering Conference focusing on Software Resilience

Save the date for January 24th-25th, 2024, as Harness brings back Chaos Carnival, the annual worldwide conference on Chaos Engineering.

The Impact of Github Copilot on Developer Productivity: A Case Study

There's a Good Chance Your Company's Cloud Costs Are Sky High. Take These 5 Steps to Save Money on Them.

Every year, businesses waste $180 billion on unnecessary cloud spending. Here's how to fight back.

Trunk-Based vs. Feature-Based Development

Dive into the world of Git-based branching strategies with our easy-to-follow guide on trunk-based and feature-based development. Learn the pros and cons of each, and learn how CI/CD fits in.

HashiCorp’s BSL License Change: What this means for Harness CD customers?

Harness Cloud Asset Governance powered by AIDA™: The Path to a Well Managed Cloud

Harness Cloud Asset Governance helps customers find and eliminate cloud waste automatically, while also providing a policy engine to ensure cloud resources are in compliance with corporate standards. By leveraging policy-as-code, it automates resource optimization, security, and compliance tasks, freeing your engineers to focus on creating innovative products and services that drive your revenue.

Charting Software Delivery Flight Paths: Intro to GitOps Source Patterns

GitOps offers a declarative approach to deployments, modeling operations as software architecture. Explore the concepts and practical challenges surrounding common GitOps source patterns, and how Harness can inject velocity and governance into whichever model you choose.

Growing the Harness Developer Hub

Learn about new and improved content on the Harness Developer Hub. These updates, based on customer feedback, are aimed to enhance clarity, improve accuracy, and create a structure that better follows the user journey.

Harness joins OpenTF Initiative

Harness is excited to join the OpenTF Initiative, a community-driven fork of the popular Terraform project

Harnessing Next-Gen AI for Secure Software Delivery: A Look at Harness AIDA™

Dive into the transformative world of DevOps and DevSecOps, where Harness Security Testing Orchestration leverages the power of GenAI with Google Vertex AI, ensuring a secure and efficient software delivery process.

A/B Testing For Feature Flags, What It Is And What It Shouldn’t Be

Feature Flags and A/B testing often go hand in hand - but they probably shouldn’t!

Hierarchical Breakdown of Organizational Cloud Costs

Harness Cost Categories offer a way to group cloud costs in ways that are most meaningful for their business and act as the basis for creating and managing Cost Perspectives, which are cost views customized to the needs of your business that empower teams to track and manage costs directly.

Unit Testing vs. Integration Testing

Explore the key differences between integration tests and unit tests in the realm of software development. Learn how these testing methods contribute to building robust and reliable software systems. Discover their unique roles, benefits, and how they integrate into the CI/CD pipeline for delivering top-quality software

August 2023 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

Automate Your CI/CD Pipeline Using Triggers

This articles talks about how triggers can be used to automate the CI/CD pipeline. It also explains the variety of triggers that can be used to automate the entire CI/CD pipeline

Advanced Deployment Strategies

This article talks about the different deployment strategies along with the best practices.

Harnessing The Power of Secrets Management

Introducing the Harness Idea Portal: Share Your Insights, Shape Our Future

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re changing how we engage with our customers to collect feedback and prioritize our roadmap.

CI/CD Pipeline as Code with Harness

How Organizations Can Reduce DevOps Costs with CI/CD Pipeline Templates

Optimizing Facebook’s Proxygen Project Build Time with Harness CI: A Case Study

In this article, we build Facebook's Proxygen project on the Harness CI module. Additionally, we conduct a comprehensive analysis, comparing the build time obtained from Harness CI with that of Github Actions, which happens to be Proxygen's default CI tool.

Easily Migrate Continuous Integration Pipelines to Harness

Explore Harness CI Migration Utility, our latest innovation for effortless CI migration

GitOps: The Push and Pull Approach

GitOps has become the talk of the town. Let's see how Harness GitOps works.

Thousands of community plugins at your fingertips with Harness CI

Tap into the collective wisdom of the developer community by running Drone plugins, Bitrise steps, and GitHub Actions from your Harness CI pipeline

Jira Releases

We are thrilled to introduce an exciting new addition to Software Engineering Insights!

How Harness Increased Query Efficiency 1000x

Aggregate tables are a powerful mechanism to deliver PDTs that are subsets of a parent explore. Engineered correctly, one can craft these to position it to scale to one’s data needs, positioning the practitioner to ensure efficiency and cost-optimization in the data platform, while also enhancing the customer experience in delivering timely, fast visualizations. Harness has and will continue to utilize aggregate tables to eliminate choke points in query processing to continue to provide a best-in-class customer experience in Custom Dashboards.

July 2023 Product Updates

Harness Product Updates. Learn what has changed in Harness over the previous month.

6 Myths of Engineering Intelligence

Over the past few years, I've engaged in numerous conversations with Engineering Teams and Engineering leaders, leading me to identify several myths surrounding engineering intelligence. Let's debunk these myths one by one.

Introduction to Harness GitOps™

Building a Software Delivery Factory with Goal-Driven Automation

Harness Certified Experts - Continuous Delivery & GitOps Admin Certification is GA

We are pleased to announce Harness Certified Experts - Continuous Delivery & GitOps Admin Certification is GA.

Keep Looker DRY

A Hub & Spoke Looker architecture positions Harness to continue to provide best-in-class custom dashboard services for our customers. With this new modular architecture, code quality will increase and development times will be cut, resulting in faster shipment of feature requests and bug fixes.

Introducing Remote Debugger: A Powerful Tool for Real-Time Builds Debugging

Learn how the Remote Debugger simplifies troubleshooting, transforming this time-consuming exercise in guesswork into a targeted, real-time effective investigation.

Introducing Harness AIDA™ - AI Development Assistant for AI Infused Software Delivery

Going Beyond Code Generation, AIDA Infuses AI Across Entire SDLC, Tackling Error Resolution, Security Vulnerabilities, and Cloud Cost Governance.

Harness Named a Market Fast Mover in GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud FinOps

Harness is proud to be included in the latest GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps as a Fast Moving Challenger in the Innovative/Platform Play quadrant of the report.

Continuous Verification - Machine Learning to Safeguard Your Deployments

A challenge facing deployments is validating the health of newly deployed services. Learn how Harness safeguards your deployments with Machine Learning.

What is serverless?

Understand how Serverless works and how it's reshaping software development, driving efficiency, and reducing costs

The Threat Modeling Process Part 2: How to Set Up Your First Threat Model

Get a detailed view of the threat modeling process we use at Harness, and all the steps within the process.

Introducing Harness Internal Developer Portal - Beta release

Today we are pleased to announce the Beta launch of our new module Internal Developer Portal. IDP is a home for developers to create, manage and explore software. Read the blog to learn more.

Chaos Experiments in Harness CD Pipelines

Chaos Engineering delivers fantastic benefits to the developers, development teams, and overall DevOps when chaos experiments are automated into the regular CD pipelines. Read this blog to know the benefits and how to use chaos experiments in Harness CD pipelines.

Chaos Engineering with Jenkins

Jenkins pipelines can deliver resilience verification by adding chaos experiments into their pipelines. Adding chaos experiments into CD pipelines have significant benefits such as improving developer productivity, reducing the operational debt and catching the resilience issues at the earliest.

Verifying Your Kubernetes Deployments Made Easy

Harness (the modern continuous delivery platform) has introduced a feature called continuous verification to help DevOps professionals to verify their deployments through any monitoring tool of their choice. 

Unlock the Secrets of Cloud Cost Forecasting: Dimensions Finance Can’t Ignore

Tips for what finance needs to include in a cloud cost forecast. It's time to stop feeling like your forecast is at the mercy of out of control cloud costs.

SRM Feature Update - May 2023

Learn about the latest reliability features in the Service Reliability Management module. See how composite SLOs, request-based SLOs, SLO downtime, SLO reporting, and new integrations help you deliver faster with better reliability.

Achieving Continuous Resilience with Harness Chaos Engineering

Introducing the continuous resilience approach. Understand the modern approach to practicing chaos engineering where the efforts to build resilience are inserted into all stages of your software development life cycle through automated chaos experiments. Harness Chaos Engineering or Harness CE comes with all the building blocks required for achieving Continuous Resilience in DevOps.

The Importance of Continuous Verification

Continuous Verification: Is a critical step in the deployment pipeline that validates deployments. Learn about the importance of Continuous Verification.

Highlights from LitmusChaos at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Here's what we saw from LitmusChaos at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF’s) flagship conference in Europe.

The Threat Modeling Process

Get an overview of the threat modeling process we use at Harness, its challenges, benefits, and a high-level look at the steps within the process. 

How to Use Error Budgets for Reliability Management‍

In this blog post, we'll explore the importance of error budgets, how they are calculated, and how they can be managed effectively to improve the reliability of your services.

Meeting Federal Zero Trust Requirements With Harness

In this blog, we’ll explore the new Federal Zero Trust Strategy as part of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and how Harness can help support it. 

Announcing the Continuous Error Tracking Module for Developer-first Observability 

As the latest module in the Harness Software Delivery Platform, Continuous Error Tracking helps developers proactively identify and resolve errors for modern applications.

How Do I Start Using Feature Flags?

Let's dive into how your team can start implementing feature flags into your software delivery lifecycle.

How Cloud AutoStopping Complements Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaling for Cost Savings

In this blog, we'll start by defining Harness AutoStopping and Autoscaling and then delve into how they complement each other.

3 Common Pitfalls When Adopting an Internal Developer Portal

Let’s take a look at some of the common challenges companies face when adopting or building a developer portal to help inform your choices if you are looking to start the journey.

Accelerate iOS and MacOS Build Pipelines with Apple M1 and Harness

Apple M1 support is available for CI pipelines! Learn how to optimize your Apple platforms app development by building on Apple Silicon M1 machines with Harness Cloud.

‍Harness Accelerates Secure Application Delivery With Latest Release of Security Testing Orchestration, Improving Collaboration Between Developers and Security Practitioners to Save Time, Cost, and Effort 

Advanced functionality simplifies identification and resolution of security issues, reduces scan configuration and run times, and creates greater governance and policy control.

The Top 4 Deployment Patterns to Drive Efficiency in CI/CD

In this blog, we’ll dive into a brief overview of the top deployment patterns to maximize developer efficiency in production.

Erlang and Elixir SDK Now Available in Harness Feature Flags

We are proud to announce the GA release of our Erlang and Elixir software development kit (SDK).

Harness Introduces New Jira Software Integrations, Enabling a More Efficient Workflow for Developers

New Harness Continuous Integration and Feature Flags integrations in Jira provide customers with deeper visibility across the development process.

How Embedding Feature Flags in Engineering Culture Prevents Bad Habits

In this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of incorporating feature flags as a cultural shift in your development teams and some common misconceptions about their implementation.

Introducing Cache Intelligence for Faster, More Efficient Continuous Integration Builds

Learn how Cache Intelligence accelerates continuous integration builds through seamless automatic caching, enhancing both performance and efficiency.

Disaster Recovery 101

In this blog, we’ll discuss disaster recovery plans and best practices for creating and executing one.

What We Learned at Chaos Carnival 2023

We're thrilled to report that our third annual chaos engineering conference, Chaos Carnival 2023, was a success. Read the recap!

Harness Celebrates Women in Tech for International Women’s Day 2023

As Harness celebrated International Women’s Day, we hosted a panel for women to share their experiences. Read the highlights.

Platform Engineering is the Next Phase of Developer Experience and Efficiency

Let’s discuss what platform engineering is and how your team can get started.

Introducing Harness Certified Experts: Continuous Delivery Developer Certification

We're pleased to announce a new Harness platform certification series, Harness Certified Experts, for Harness users.

How Chaos Engineering Strengthens Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Avoid becoming the next cautionary tale of major service outages making the news.

Announcing the Harness Feature Flags Backstage Plugin: The Developer-Centric View You Need

With the new Harness Feature Flags Backstage plugin, developers can have a more focused view of feature flags from within the Backstage platform.

Setting Up PagerDuty Notifications for Incident Management Using Harness

Learn how to integrate PagerDuty incident management tool with Harness to get a clear view of your CI/CD pipeline events.

Introducing The Code Rush, a New Show Focused on All Things DevOps and Cloud-Native

Harness is excited to announce The Code Rush, a new show that will help developers, programmers, and software architects learn how to improve their build, integration, test and deployment skills.

5 Reasons to Attend Chaos Carnival 2023

Harness is excited to host the third annual Chaos Carnival, a FREE two-day virtual conference on March 15-16, 2023. So, have you registered yet? Here are five reasons why you should register today!

Using Ephemeral Environments to Test and Scale Your Deployments

In this tutorial, we will discuss what ephemeral environments are, how they work, and how to configure them.

Harness Celebrates Black History Month 2023

As Harness celebrates Black History Month, we’re honored to share the unique perspectives of a few members of our team who have graciously shared their stories. 

Five Key Technologies Shaping the Future of Software Delivery

If you’re ready to take your software delivery to the next level, consider looking into these five key concepts that are quickly becoming essential to modern software delivery. 

Meeting Federal Compliance Requirements with Policy-as-Code and Automated Change Management

With a broad number of compliance policies, how do federal IT shops ultimately implement, govern, and enforce them?

Harness Expands Chaos Engineering Resiliency Features with Integrated Continuous Delivery

Harness Chaos Engineering expands its chaos fault library and delivers native integration into Harness Continuous Delivery pipelines to build and validate resilience.

Harness Chaos Engineering (CE) Key Capabilities

Let's take a deep dive into Harness Chaos Engineering’s key capabilities, including unified experimentation across SaaS and self-hosted deployments, Continuous Resilience(TM) in CI/CD pipelines, steady statement management, and more.‍

‍Harness® Acquires Propelo, Bringing Actionable Engineering Insights to Award-Winning Software Delivery Platform

Harness, the Modern Software Delivery Platform™ company, today announced the acquisition of Propelo, Inc., an industry leader in engineering productivity, and the general availability of Harness Software Engineering Insights™ module.

Introducing Software Engineering Insights 

The Harness Software Engineering Insights™ module gives engineering leaders actionable data to measure and optimize software delivery processes and improve developer experience. 

Harness Named Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service

Harness honored in Techstrong Group's 2022 DevOps Dozen for Tools and Services.

How to Secure Your Kubernetes Workloads

Learn how to protect your Kubernetes cluster and applications from potential threats and ensure your data remains secure.

Announcing the General Availability of Harness Developer Hub

We are excited to announce the GA of Harness Developer Hub (HDH), bringing Tutorials, Documentation (including Release Notes), and Certifications in one location.

Introduction to Service Level Objective (SLO) Management

In this article, we’ll discuss Service Level Objective (SLO) management and how using service level objectives is a key component of site reliability management.

Announcing the Return of Chaos Carnival

Harness is excited to announce the third annual Chaos Carnival, a two-day virtual conference on March 15-16, 2023.

Complete Guide for GitOps on Kubernetes

Let's dive into the basics of how GitOps and Kubernetes support continuous delivery (CD) and integration (CI).

The Harness API Testing Methodology 

In this blog, we’ll share our approach as a useful reference for other software companies to consider as they prioritize API security testing. 

What is DevSecOps? Strategies to Secure Applications

This blog post will cover every important aspect you need to know about security testing and DevSecOps.

2023 DevOps Predictions: The Rise of Platform Engineering, Workplace Culture Changes, and More

We asked our team here at Harness and some of our customers to share what they see in store for DevOps in 2023. Here’s what they had to say.