Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

What Is MTTR?: The DORA Metric You Need To Know

A deep dive into MTTR, a DORA metric that measures the amount of time it takes, on average, for a system to recover, from a disruption of service.

What is the Purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?

Tips for improving your sprint retrospective meetings.

Deploying a To-Do Application to Kubernetes with Harness

Learn to deploy a to-do application to Kubernetes using Harness. Follow a step-by-step guide to set up CI/CD pipelines efficiently.

Dimensionality Best Practices Guide

Boost your experimentation efforts with dimensional analysis! This guide dives into data organization, crafting valuable dimensions, and utilizing Split's features to optimize your experiments.

Introduction to Harness Cluster Orchestrator for Amazon EKS

In this tutorial, we detail how the new Harness Cluster Orchestrator for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) feature within the Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) module can empower engineering, DevOps, and CloudOps teams with all the intelligence needed to scale Amazon EKS cluster nodes driven by unique workload requirements.

What Makes Harness a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for Feature Flags

Harness is a Leader and Outperformer in GigaOm's Feature Flags Report. Discover their standout capabilities in feature management.

Why It’s Time to Migrate from Jenkins to Drone CI

Learn why migrating from Jenkins to Drone CI enhances your CI/CD processes with modern cloud-native features and ease of use.

The Data is In: Harness CI is up to 4X faster than Other Solutions

New data shows that Harness Continuous Integration builds up to four times faster than other leading CI tools, which validates the impact of three important new feature enhancements: Cache Intelligence, Test Intelligence™ (a technology exclusive to Harness CI), and Hosted Builds.

How to Build and Deploy a Node.js Microservice with Harness

When it comes to modern software development, microservices are one of the hottest trends. This blog post will explain what microservices are, why you should use them, their benefits, and how to deploy them using Harness.

How to Create Multi-stage Docker Builds with Harness Continuous Delivery

This tutorial explains what multi-stage Docker builds are and how they can help speed up your development process.

Harness Honors Harnessians Who Served This Veterans Day

This month, Harness recognizes and celebrates Veterans day by highlighting two Harnessians who served. Learn about their stories.

Metrics Matter: The 4 Types of Code-Level Data Harness Service Reliability Management Collects

With increasingly complex systems and ever-growing expectations for digital customer experiences, traditional tooling and the shallow data they provide is insufficient. To fully understand what’s going on inside your application and maintain stability, this data must be collected at the code level.

Announcing Support for Apex in Harness Feature Flags

Harness introduces Apex SDK for Salesforce, enhancing feature management and speeding up app development. Learn how to get started.

Why Don't CTOs Have a Platform?

The cost of not having central space for CTOs is greater than you think. That tool sprawl, lack of documentation, and lack of a singular repository for process and project metrics takes its toll in the form of added work and developer toil. Teams need a platform with security and control.

Introducing the Harness Developer Hub - Beta Release

With the goal of furthering and simplifying developer and engineering education, we are pleased to announce the launch of the beta release of Harness Developer Hub, or HDH located at https://developer.harness.io.

CI/CD Challenges and How to Solve Them

This blog post will share four common CI/CD challenges and how to solve them.

Spotlight: Summer 2022 Harness Interns

This summer, we welcomed Siddhi Bansal and Ram Potham as interns. Read about the impactful experiences they had as part of their internships.

10 Signs You Don't Do Continuous Delivery

Identify common signs that indicate your team isn't practicing continuous delivery and learn how to overcome them.

Announcing Speed Enhancements and Hosted Builds for Harness Continuous Integration

Harness is excited to announce that there are new features for the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) module designed to deliver the fastest CI builds available in the market, along with hosted builds as a fully managed cloud service offering.

How to Configure Your Builds with JFrog Artifactory and Harness

This article will explain how a developer can easily use best-of-the-breed DevOps tools, like Harness and JFrog Artifactory, to test and build with CI and store the build artifacts.

Instant Feature Flags With Next.js

Unlock the power of feature flags in Next.js! Discover how to decouple deployments from feature releases and gain insights into feature performance using this approach.

Why 42% of Developers Are Thinking About Quitting Their Jobs

How you recruit and retain talented individuals is largely a question of how you sculpt their experience — namely, with modern software delivery tooling.

The Basics of GitOps Secrets Management

Learn the basics of managing Git, GitOps, and GitOps secrets management.

Join the Harness Hacktoberfest Open Source Software Celebration

Hacktoberfest 2022 is finally here! Our celebration encourages participation from and brings awareness to the open-source community.

The Top Chaos Engineering Tools

Explore top chaos engineering tools like Chaos Mesh, Gremlin, and LitmusChaos. Learn how these tools enhance system resilience and reliability.

What is Chaos Engineering? Intro, Definition & More

Learn how Chaos Engineering tests system resilience by injecting failures, improving reliability, and preventing outages.

Feature Management Architecture & Security

Best practices for building secure and scalable feature flag systems.

Getting Started With Helm

This tutorial aims to help readers deploy a Helm Chart from GitHub Repository. This repository contains a simple Helm chart that you can deploy on your public Kubernetes cluster to demo Helm with Harness!

Introducing Delegate Installation via Helm

This tutorial will show you how to install your Delegate on Kubernetes. Helm is a great way to install and manage delegates on your Kubernetes cluster as the package manager makes it easy to find and install the right delegate by swapping the values.yaml file

Kubernetes and Split

Streamline A/B testing and feature management for containerized apps. Discover how Split seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes for efficient experimentation and deployments.

Learn More About the Harness Resource Center

In this overview of Harness Platform resource center, users will learn the process to raise a support ticket, as well as how to get access to the recent release notes and API documentation.

Dynamic Triggers in Harness for git events

This article gives an overview of the dynamic triggers available in Harness and focuses on the working of these triggers according to the events marked in GitHub webhooks. This helps developers come up with custom triggers according to their use case.

Simplifying Multi-Step Dockerfile with Drone Pipeline

Despite the adoption of cloud architectures, many companies haven’t achieved optimal results. Learn how to simplify your multi-step Dockerfile deployment with Drone in the cloud.

Announcing Support for PHP in Harness Feature Flags

Harness introduces PHP SDK for Feature Flags, enhancing feature management for PHP developers. Start using it today.

Start Deploying in 5 Minutes with a Delegate-first Approach‍

We now offer a Delegate-first approach to Harness pipelines. Delegates make deployments easier and faster.

Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part One

In this two-part example, we will be trying to deploy a purpose-built vulnerable container into a Kubernetes cluster. Part one will focus on a basic integration and part two will focus on more operationalizing the integration.

Kubernetes Application Deployment Strategies

Learn about rolling, canary, and blue/green deployment strategies for Kubernetes. Discover best practices for seamless application updates.

Harness Celebrates Hispanic + Latino Heritage Month

Members of our Amigos de Harness employee resource group share their stories as they celebrate their vibrant culture with us all.

The Best Ways to Use Split with the Contentful API

Discover how to leverage Split's integration with Contentful to simplify your content management workflow and experiment with different content variations.

Now Generally Available: Harness GitOps-as-a-Service Delivers Scalability, Control, and Security to Enterprises

Harness is proud to introduce generally available enterprise capabilities for GitOps deployments.

What Puts Harness Among 10 Top Providers in Cloud Cost Management

Harness Cloud Cost Management has made its debut appearance in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization, Q3 2022, and we’re thrilled to be recognized as one of the top vendors in the industry.

Architecting Harness CI for scale

This tutorial will share insights into the architecture for Harness CI and talk about the major design decisions taken to handle scale with reliability and resilience.

What is CircleCI? A Look at Features and Use Cases

Explore CircleCI, its features, benefits, and use cases. Learn how this CI/CD tool can streamline your development process.

Confidence In Economic Storms (and Other Stressful Metaphors)

Discover how to improve software development during economic downturns. Learn to release features faster, optimize spending, and make data-driven decisions.

Up Your Software Game With Split Arcade

Introducing Split Arcade: Your Gaming Destination. Dive into a world of gaming excitement and fun. Join us on this thrilling adventure now!

Harness Security Testing Orchestration Module is Now Generally Available to Accelerate Secure Software Delivery

Harness's Security Testing Orchestration is now available, offering automated scans, governance, and improved collaboration.

Data-Led Actionability for VP of Engineering

Key engineering metrics to track and the actionability that is driven by the data and insights from DevOps tools.

Introducing codeAbout Livestream Series for the Harness User Community

We're excited to launch a new livestream series called codeAbout for the Harness user community. We'll be exploring all the nooks and crannies of the Harness ecosystem from CI to CD to Chaos with a rotating cast of special guests.

Don’t Be Left In the Dark: Try Trigger Testing

Uncover hidden insights with Trigger Testing! A powerful technique that shines a light on user behavior within A/B experiments, revealing hidden patterns for smarter decision-making.

Announcing Support for Xamarin in Harness Feature Flags

Harness Feature Flags now supports Xamarin SDK, enhancing cross-platform mobile app development with feature flag capabilities.

Targeted Rollouts and Release Progression

Targeted Rollouts: release a change to a targeted audience before rolling it out widely. Learn the benefits and why you'd want to do that.

Announcing Feature Flags Analytics & Business Intelligence

It's here: analytics & business intelligence for Harness Feature Flags.

Introducing Harness Feature Flags

Harness Feature Flags allows organizations to deliver features faster, with less risk. Learn more and try it out today.

Testing Redesigned Data Pipelines with Split

Boost pipeline confidence with feature flags! Feature flags transform data pipeline testing, providing a safe method to test in-production, minimize risk, and ensure data integrity.

Standardizing CI Workflows with Harness Continuous Integration and Jira

Harness has a built-in integration with Jira, and this article will demonstrate how they work together with a simple setup and example.

The Engineering Knowledge Graph: The Missing Link to Unlocking Engineering Productivity

An Engineering Knowledge Graph (EKG) can be an effective tool in helping organizations better understand their bottlenecks.

Harness The Power of AWS EKS Anywhere, Now with Bare Metal

The announcement of EKS Anywhere Bare Metal brings Harness customers the velocity of application deployments in EKS to hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

5 Truths Every Product Leader Should Know

Feature data is powering the next wave of software innovation through faster delivery, smarter rollouts, and data-driven experimentation.

Harness Celebrates International Women in Engineering Day

In celebration of INWED, we are highlighting a few of the rockstar women at Harness who were recently honored with the our Top R&D Recognition Award.

Celebrating Pride Month & Amplifying LGBTQIA+ Voices

At Harness, one way we are recognizing Pride Month is by amplifying and celebrating the voices of our LBGTQIA+ team members.

Harness Service Reliability Management Goes GA: Experience the Power of SLO Management Without the Pain

Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) SRM has officially reached General Availability (GA) status as of June 21, 2022.

Kubernetes Services Explained

Understand Kubernetes services like ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress. Learn their differences and best use cases for your applications.

SPACE Metrics: What They Are and Why They're Important

Discover the SPACE framework's holistic approach to developer productivity, focusing on satisfaction, performance, and collaboration.

SPACE Metrics: How to Get Started

Learn how SPACE metrics provide a holistic approach to measuring developer productivity, focusing on well-being and satisfaction.

Deploy Your Simple Node.js Application Using Local Docker Images in Minikube

Learn how to use a simple Node.js application to see how you can use your local images to build and deploy an application on minikube.

Harness Infrastructure Provisioners and ARM Templates - Part 2

In this second and final part of the series, we will learn how you can use Harness variables to templatize your ARM templates and how Harness provides rollback, which Azure does not.

Managing the 'Git' in 'GitOps': 4 Ways to Structure Code in Your GitOps Repos

This blog describes four ways of managing GitOps code leveraging branches, repositories, and folder structures.

Top 3 Challenges in Measuring DORA Metrics in Azure DevOps

A look at the challenges of accessing and measuring DORA metrics in the Azure DevOps platform.

Benefits of Chaos Engineering & More

Discover how Chaos Engineering enhances system resilience, improves incident response, and boosts team confidence and collaboration.

Split Embraces OpenFeature

Split joins OpenFeature to help define a vendor-neutral standard for feature flagging, advancing progressive delivery across all industries.

What is Gitlab CI?

GitLab CI is one of GitLab’s most successful set of features. Here's our complete GitLab CI Intro and Guide.

Harness AAPI Employee Spotlight

See how we're living our values as part of AAPI Heritage Month.

Software Development Metrics 101

Just about everything you need to know about metrics and how you can use them in software engineering.

GitOps Tools & Kubernetes Gitops Tools

Explore top GitOps tools for Kubernetes like Argo CD, Flux, and Harness, highlighting features and usability.

What Are GitOps Principles?

Learn about the foundational principles of GitOps and how they can make your life easier.

Complete GitOps vs DevOps Guide

While some may consider GitOps a replacement for the delivery component of DevOps, it is very much a natural extension of DevOps methodologies. Moreover, great GitOps relies on a broader DevOps culture and ecosystem to thrive. Let's learn more about the differences.

Benefits of GitOps & Why GitOps Is Important

Discover the key benefits of GitOps for improving CI/CD pipelines, enhancing collaboration, and boosting productivity. Learn why GitOps matters.

Top 10 Best Practices for DevSecOps

DevSecOps: A methodology where engineering teams run security scans throughout the SDLC to find and fix vulnerabilities before they make it to the end user. Let's learn some DevSecOps best practices.

Introducing Harness Policy as Code, Powered by OPA

It's here: Harness Policy as Code helps organizations create and enforce policies on deployments, infrastructure, and more, providing developer velocity without sacrificing compliance and standards.

Harness Recognized by Inc. as One of the Best Workplaces 2022

After receiving a few awards and placements on Best Workplaces lists, we reflected on why. Hint: It's all in the culture.

The Importance of Continuous Integration and Its Benefits

Discover the key benefits of Continuous Integration, from enhanced developer productivity to better code quality and faster delivery.

What Is GitOps? Learn About Benefits, Challenges, and More

Explore what GitOps is, its benefits, and how to scale it for enterprise use. Learn about Harness GitOps-as-a-Service and its features.

Quality vs Reliability

Quality and reliability: different, yet complementary. Find out how these two practices can take your software delivery processes to the next level.

International Women's Day, Part 3: Join Us in Celebrating Our Women@ Community

For International Women's Day, we're celebrating some of the amazing women at Harness. Join us for this three-part series - part 3 starts now!

Harness Valuation Soars to $3.7 Billion With $230 Million in Series D Funding

Company Valuation More Than Doubles Amid Rapid Customer Adoption of Harness Software Delivery Platform

Build System vs CI System: What's the Difference and Why Does it Matter?

What's a build system? And what's the different between a build system and CI? In this article, we explain the 'build system vs CI' question and how CI servers play a part.

Harness Infrastructure Provisioners and ARM Templates

Let's learn the basics of ARM templates and how we can deploy them using the Harness workflow engine! Follow along with this tutorial.

Introducing Harness Chaos Engineering

Learn how Harness Chaos Engineering helps teams build resilient systems by simulating failures and identifying vulnerabilities.

3 Reasons to Correlate Cloud Costs to Engineering Releases

Involving developers in cloud cost management is paramount to cloud cost optimization. Here are 3 reasons we should involve them and correlate our costs to engineering releases.

The Best Open Source CI Tools

Are you on the market for a new Continuous Integration tool? We've compiled a list of open source CI tools to help you make a decision.

Harness CI With AWS VMs

With beta support comes a how-to guide! In this post, we’ll explore the features supported in AWS VMs and explore their design and architecture.

Intelligent Cloud AutoStopping for Google Compute Engine

AutoStopping strikes again! Learn to use it for Google Compute Engine with our step-by-step guide for cloud cost optimization. Try it now!

6 Actionable GitOps Best Practices to Help You Get Started

Looking into GitOps? Read this post to find actionable best practices you can implement when starting out with GitOps.

The Women of DevOps: Abigail Boakye

The Women of DevOps: Abigail Boakye, Senior Cloud, Unix, and Storage System Administrator.

Introducing AutoStopping for AWS RDS

Harness Intelligent Cloud AutoStopping Rules help manage idle Amazon EC2 instances and other cloud resources. Today, we are expanding AutoStopping to include support for Amazon RDS.

Harness Product Update | March 2022

Product Update March 2022: See what we've been up to and get updates on product features, events, webinars, HarnessU, and more.

Tyler Tech Takes CI/CD to the Next Level and Achieves Unparalleled Velocity With Feature Flags

Tyler Tech enhances CI/CD with Harness Feature Flags, achieving greater release velocity and control. Learn how they improved their software delivery.

International Women's Day, Part 2: Join Us in Celebrating Our Women@ Community

For International Women's Day, we're celebrating some of the amazing women at Harness. Join us for this three-part series - part 2 starts now!

Externalizing Strings in React - Part 2

Part 2 of our Externalizing Strings in React series! Here's how we can leverage TypeScript.

Introducing Harness Security Testing Orchestration

Harness Security Testing Orchestration boosts application security with automated vulnerability detection and governance.