Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Tech Fair Live

Thur, Apr 15th

Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment: What’s the Difference?

Understand the differences between continuous delivery and continuous deployment, including key practices, benefits, and best tools.

ONUG 2021 | A Snapshot of DevOps

Wed, May 5th

What is PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)?

Discover how PaaS transforms software development and how Harness elevates Continuous Delivery, making deployments seamless and efficient.

Cloud Spend 101: Avoiding Bill Shock & Optimizing Kubernetes

Thu, June 6th @ 2 pm PT

SF Bay Cloud Native Containers | Applying Governance to CI/CD

Thu, May 13th @ 4 pm PT

{unscripted}

June 16-17

CDCon | The Impact of Continuous Delivery on Digital Transformations

June 23-24

Harness Deployment Freezes aka Deployment Blackout Windows

Discover how Harness CD's Deployment Freeze feature minimizes risk during critical business periods by scheduling blackout windows for code deployments.

ShipTalk Podcast - The Brass Tacks of Open Source - Tracy Miranda at CDF

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Miranda who is the Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation which is part of the Linux Foundation.Tracy chats through her experience creating thriving open source communities and practices from inception to maturity.

Top 8 Cloud Cost Management Tools

Discover the top cloud cost management tools to optimize your cloud expenses and enhance efficiency. Learn about their features and benefits.

The Complete Guide to Instrumentation: How to Measure Everything You Need Inside Your Application

What’s instrumentation and why do you need it in your application?

Value Stream Mapping for Software Delivery

Value stream mapping allows you to optimize your flow of materials and information by lowering costs and improving value adds. Read on to learn more.

Hygiene : The Key to Engineering Excellence

In an organization, the need for good data hygiene trumps everything else.

The Six Traits Behind Every Successful VP of Engineering

In this blog, I would like to share the key traits necessary for both promotion and success at the head of engineering level.

Empowers Developers with Harness

Vuclip found that Harness was the only solution that fully integrated with their GCP, Kubernetes, APM, and Log stack.

Achieves Global Continuous Delivery with Harness

Linedata saved $500k in developer toil. Find out how you can too.

3X Deployment Frequency & Decreases Deployment Time 75%

Find out how Marketron tripled velocity with Harness.

Migrates to Kubernetes with One Developer and Harness

Find out how Tilting Point sped up their cloud migration with Harness.

Selects Harness over Spinnaker For Secure Continuous Delivery

Relativity selects Harness over Spinnaker resulting in massive security improvements.

Reduces Deployment Time by 90% with Harness

Jobvite learns about the power of a true CD tool. Learn about their journey here.

Reduces Developer Toil by 94% Using Drone and Harness

Lavasoft uses both Drone and Harness to create the ideal software delivery environment.

Accelerates Kubernetes Migration by Four Months

Without Harness, Casting Networks would be 4 months behind their Kubernetes migration schedule.

Empowers 700 Engineers with Harness

Advanced saw a 10x return on their investment in 2 months. Find out how.

Accelerates AWS Cloud Migration

Beachbody avoided the headache associated with cloud migrations by leveraging Harness continuous delivery.

Static vs. Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them

When it comes to static vs dynamic code analysis, what’s the difference between them, and how do you know which one to use?

The Dependency and Plugin Hell That is Jenkins

Jenkins’ plugin model has become the “Slippers cat and duck” story of CI/CD. It’s not good.

Harness Product Update | January 2021

Read about the latest and greatest from Harness for the month of January 2021.

Not All Connections are Created Equal: Introducing Streaming Architecture

Split introduces real-time streaming architecture for faster feature flag updates with improved performance and reduced latency.

More Powerful Experiments and Personalization at Scale with Amplitude and Split

Integrate Amplitude cohorts with Split to personalize experiences, increase experimentation velocity, and accelerate impactful results.

The DevOps Tools Lifecycle Mesh for 2021

It's the role, and quite frankly, the duty, of every DevOps vendor to create a visual one-off masterpiece that represents the DevOps tools landscape.

Eliminates Delivery Toil

Learn how ABC Fitness drastically reduced the effort spend on software delivery.

What is CI/CD? Everything You Need To Know

This blog post will share everything you need to know about CI/CD, from code changes to continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.

ShipTalk Podcast - Finding Your Tribe - Tracy Ragan at Deploy Hub

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO of DeployHub. Tracy is no stranger to open source communities spending time with the Eclipse Foundation and Continuous Delivery Foundation.Tracy talks about her career and community journey and why it is important to find your tribe.

Democratizes Continuous Delivery Using Harness

Find out how Lessonly distributed the deployment workload to its developers.

Intro to Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, and More

Learn how blue-green and canary deployments enhance application releases, offering reliability, easy rollbacks, and better user experience.

Harness announces $115M in new financing with a $1.7B valuation

Harness raises $115M in new funding, achieving a $1.7B valuation to enhance its AI-driven software delivery platform.

3X Deployment Speed & Reduces Downtime Risk by 85%

Find out how Iterable deployed faster and more securely.

“I Love Spending Money on Cloud Costs” - Said No One Ever

At Harness, we know all about cloud costs - and we know all about the potential savings a shop our size could muster if we took a good look at our spend. It would be enough for Smaug to feel a pang of jealousy - Smaug being, in this case, Google Cloud.

Deploy Your React App with Netlify

Build blazing-fast React apps with Netlify! Split feature flags integrate seamlessly with Netlify, empowering you to control rollouts, conduct A/B tests, and optimize your React applications.

Essential Guide to Experimentation

A/B testing is a powerful tool for product development, but how can you use it effectively? This guide explores how to set goals, design experiments, measure success, and learn from your results—even the failures.

Introducing Harness Custom Deployments

Harness recently launched a brand new feature called Custom Deployments. Custom Deployments, as the name suggests, is a way for users to perform any kind of deployment that might not be natively supported and provided by Harness out of the box.

Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part Two

Continuing on from part one of the series, we will be leveraging the Harness Platform to further operationalize vulnerability scanning in your CI/CD pipeline.

Gain New Perspectives on Your Cloud Bill

Harness just released a way to build and save custom dashboards and reports on cloud spend. Check out this new finops and cloud cost management tool.

Harness Product Update | December 2020

Read all about the new features, content, events, etc. that Harness has been working on during the month of December.

ShipTalk Podcast - Always Stay Curious - DevOps Leadership - Frank at DataStax

In this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Frank Moley who is a Senior Manager of platform engineering at DataStax.

Declarative Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes: A Closer Look at Argo CD

Explore Argo CD's declarative approach for continuous delivery in Kubernetes. Learn about its features, benefits, and integration strategies.

Meltwater Runs 1200 Pipelines Per Day With Harness CI

Learn how Meltwater builds 1200 artifacts a day.

Harness Cloud Cost Management On AWS Marketplace

Mastering AWS Cost Optimization with Harness

The Definitive List of .NET Blogs and .NET Podcasts Every Developer Needs to Bookmark

3 Reasons to Automate Your Kill Switch (and 2 Reasons You Shouldn’t)

Feature flags and kill switches can be used to mitigate risk and improve the release process. Automating kill switches can be risky, but it can be beneficial if the risk of keeping them on outweighs the drawbacks of automation.

CI/CD Pipeline: Everything You Need to Know

Learn all about CI/CD pipelines, their elements, benefits, and best practices to streamline your software delivery process.

Scaled Kubernetes Continuous Delivery with GitOps

Learn how Ruckus scaled Kubernetes Continuous Delivery using Harness GitOps

Replaced Spinnaker & Saved $275,000

Learn how MakerBot replaced Spinnaker and reduced CI/CD costs by $275,000

Standardized CI/CD Pipelines Across Teams

Learn how LogMeIn onboards new microservices in just one hour.

Selected Harness over Spinnaker for CI/CD

Learn how Datastax upgraded their CI/CD with Harness

10 Tools Every React Developer Needs

Explore 10 powerful tools for building better React apps faster—plus a bonus feature flagging solution to boost release safety and speed.

A Home for ECS Developers

Harness understands that many customers are happy with their ECS environments and don’t have plans to move to Kubernetes.

Harness Product Update | November 2020

Learn about the most important new functionality delivered by Harness during the month of November 2020.

KubeCon 2020 Recap - Maturity in Cloud Native

Raking over the vast number of sessions in KubeCon North America 2020, we can start to see some trends. Where there is new or increasing number of talks can be a telltale sign of where the market is headed and for decreasing number of talks is an indication of maturity in the technology.

The Surprising Complexities of Building Audit Logs

Audit logs are essential for security, compliance, and troubleshooting. This article delves into the challenges of building robust audit logs, such as designing flexible structures and prioritizing specific use cases.

Delivering Reliability Through SRE Practices

This blog shares some popular SRE practices and how to apply them to enable continuous delivery.

Understand cloud costs for every deployment with Harness

Control of your cloud costs and to let your developers see the cost impact of their deployments in real-time.

Kill Your Code Freeze Before Next Holiday Season

Code freezes can disrupt development and increase risk. Learn how feature flags can help you avoid unnecessary freezes and improve your software release process.

Harness Product Update | October 2020

It’s October and the ghosts and ghouls at Harness have been busy adding more features, squishing bugs, and putting on {Unscripted} conference for your DevOps enjoyment.

The Dos and Don'ts of Feature Flags

Want to accelerate software delivery and reduce risks? Feature flags are the key. Discover best practices for managing, monitoring, and retiring flags to optimize your release process and improve user experience.

CLR vs JVM: How the Battle Between C# and Java Extends to the VM-Level

The battle between Java and C# is never ending. Find out how differences at the VM-level affect this debate.

Road to {Unscripted} - Getting the Most Out of a Virtual Conference

Our first inaugural {Unscripted} is almost here and we could not be more excited to have you. Learn tips and tricks to make your virtual conference experience great.

What Is a CI/CD Platform and Why Should I Care?

Discover the importance of CI/CD platforms and how they streamline software delivery, improving efficiency, security, and overall performance.

Introducing The Heroes of Continuous Delivery

Discover how Harness celebrates Continuous Delivery experts with the Heroes of CD program, highlighting their contributions to software delivery excellence.

Harness Product Update | September 2020

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, fall is in the air in September. As our coffee starts to include more pumpkin spice, we have been hard at work at Harness helping our community and clients raise the bar.

Split’s Simple How-To Guide for A/B Testing

Use A/B testing and feature flags to optimize user experience, drive business growth, and make confident, data-driven product decisions.

7 Ways Feature Flags Improve Software Development

Feature flags drive safer rollouts, empower experimentation, simplify migrations, and enable faster, more resilient software development.

Migrate from Monolith to Microservices

Breathe new life into your monolithic application! This article provides a step-by-step guide on migrating to microservices using feature flags to minimize risk and ensure a smooth transition.

Do You Really Need that Change Advisory Board?

Change Advisory Boards (CABs) are often used to manage software delivery, but can they slow down the process without improving safety? This article explores CABs, their role, and suggests alternative approaches for safe and speedy delivery.

Harness Product Update | August 2020

August has certainly been heating up in the dog days of Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. Our biggest announcement is the arrival of Drone, now Harness CI to the Harness Family.

Java vs. Native Agents – And How It Affects Your Code

The difference between Java and native agents and how it will impact your code and applications.

Get Started with Feature Flags in Node

Streamline Node.js development with feature flags! Discover how feature flags empower you to control functionality, test features safely, and iterate rapidly within your Node.js applications.

A Quick Guide to Feature Toggles in a Spring Boot App

Feature flags in Spring Boot enable efficient feature management, allowing teams to control releases and experiment with new functionalities. By integrating flags into the development pipeline, companies enhance flexibility, reduce risk, and streamline deployment processes.

Harness CI and Harness CD - Your First True CI/CD Pipeline

Let’s take a look at what leveraging a Harness CI / Drone Pipeline to build then leveraging Harness CD to deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

Succeeding with Microservices

Discover key CI/CD principles for microservices success with Tiffany Jachja's expert guidance on deployment flexibility and scalability.

Your First Harness CI Installation, Build, and Publish

Your Harness CI journey starts with Drone, a popular Continuous Integration platform. Learn how to get started with your first build and push.

Implementing Production Testing with Feature Flag Management

Safely test features in production using feature flags, boost release confidence, and implement a 90-day rollout plan for modern delivery.

Harness Acquires CI Pioneer Drone.io and Commits to Open Source

Harness Acquires CI Pioneer Drone.io and Commits to Open Source. Learn more about Drone and Harness.

Cloud Cost 101

CI/CD Evangelist Ravi Lachhman demonstrates Harness Cloud Cost Management. Learn how Harness customers have saved 6 figures in idle cloud spend.

Build a CRUD App With Spring Boot and Angular in 20 Minutes

Take your Spring Boot and Angular app to the next level. Learn how to implement CRUD operations and feature flags.

Harness Product Update | July 2020

As we round out the month of July in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is in full swing. If you live in a warm area and your air conditioning costs are increasing don’t worry, Harness can help you save on your cloud spend so you can enjoy that cold A/C.

5 Reasons Why I Deleted My IDE

If your IDE is slowing you down, you may want to consider deleting it.

How to Branch by Abstraction with Feature Flags

Branch by abstraction enables continuous deployment by isolating large code changes through an abstraction layer. Combined with feature flags, it allows developers to test updates safely, minimizing disruptions and easing the transition to new implementations.

Standardizing Across Delivery Pipelines

Discover how to automate your delivery pipeline with Harness in a quick demo, streamlining your CI/CD process for faster deployments.

Why Kubernetes Becomes Expensive - Allowing Rocketing Consumption

Kubernetes allows for generic workload placement thus Kubernetes cost and consumption can skyrocket. Learn from Harness how this happens and how to combat.

Build a Web App with Spring Boot in 15 Minutes

Master Spring Boot Feature Flags. This guide provides a step-by-step example, empowering you to control functionality, test features, and optimize your Spring Boot applications.

Cloud Logging Optimization - How We Saved Over $140k in Logging Costs

Learn how we saved over $140k in Cloud Logging costs. By leveraging several practices, we were able to identify expensive logs.

Harness Product Update | June 2020

The month of June in the Northern Hemisphere kicks off summer and the summer solstice. As a society, we continue to learn and grow in addressing the strife that is sometimes omnipresent. We are committed to Harness to reduce that strife for all.

Database Migrations with Feature Flags

Use feature flags to manage database migrations safely, preserving backward compatibility and reducing risk through gradual rollout.

Lessons from the Harness Cloud Cost Management

Discover how Harness Cloud Cost Management drives savings & efficiency, with users saving $500K annually & gaining real-time cost visibility.

Shifting Down With Harness Cloud Cost Management

Harness Cloud Cost Management - empowering engineering and DevOps teams to proactively manage and optimize cloud costs.

Java EE vs Java SE: Has Oracle Given up on Enterprise Software?

A detailed explanation of how Java EE differs from Java SE.

Community Updates - CD Foundation & HarnessU

We're continuing our commitment to supporting our communities. With summer just starting, we thought we'd share what's been cooking at Harness. Read on for our latest community updates!

What to Know About A/B Testing vs Multivariate Testing

Unsure if A/B testing or multivariate testing is the best fit for your website? Explore the differences between the two methods to help you optimize your webpages and features.