Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Feature Flags vs. Feature Branches

Feature flags and feature branches each bring unique benefits to code deployment, with flags enhancing flexibility and safety in production, and branches aiding isolated development. Together, they enable continuous delivery with less risk, making it easier to test, deploy, and iterate on features without interrupting users.

Harness Product Update | May 2020

As we round out the month of May, what seems to be the new norm is facing a screen for work, entertainment, and everything else in between. At Harness, on top of wishing everyone well, we have been continuing to innovate and increase our sense of community and virtual presence to allow our clients and community to interact.

Harness Supports ChatOps - Microsoft Teams

Discover how Harness integrates with Microsoft Teams for seamless deployment notifications, boosting team communication and operational efficiency.

Spinnaker to Harness: A Conversion Story - Part 1

Migrating to Harness from Spinnaker is not a 1-to-1 process. It starts with understanding the requirements and processes around each, then making the jump!

Using Github Actions with Harness

Integrate GitHub Actions with Harness for streamlined CI/CD. Learn to build, test, and deploy applications efficiently with step-by-step guidance.

C# vs. Java: 5 Irreplaceable C# Features We’d Kill to Have in Java

A look at some of the features in C# that we would love to see in Java.

Testing Methodologies

Testing. One word that can strike some sort of love/hate emotion into your developers.

A Breakup Letter to Staging

Testing in staging is costly, unreliable, and disconnected from reality—modern teams are shifting confidently to testing in production.

Harness Product Update | April 2020

The month of April has been a trying month for many of us around the global community. At Harness, on top of wishing everyone well and to stay safe, we have been continuing to innovate to allow our clients to better serve their clients.

Thread Magic Tricks: 5 Things You Never Knew You Can Do with Java Threads

Some lesser-known techniques for using Java threads.

Set Up Feature Flags with React in 10 Minutes

Streamline React development in 10 minutes! A quick and easy approach to implementing feature flags within your React applications, empowering faster iteration and controlled rollouts.

Deploying AWS Lambda Serverless Functions

Learn how to deploy AWS Lambda serverless functions efficiently with Harness, ensuring scalability and optimal resource utilization in your cloud environment.

Rancher Rio vs Harness - Filming my Journey

Explore how Rancher Rio simplifies Kubernetes deployments vs. Harness Platform's advanced Continuous Delivery capabilities for safer, automated deployments.

Open Policy Agent Primer

Securing your latest Kubernetes ship, Open Policy Agent simplifies cross-service authorization. Install in less than 5 mins with Harness.

GraphQL: Harness Your Way

Virtually all of Harness' meaningful entities are exposed through the API, including Applications, Services, Cloud Providers, Environments, Workflows, Pipelines, deployed instances, and deployment data. This post shares how to use GraphQL to interact with the Harness API.

Tekton vs Harness CD - Filming my Journey

Ravi films his journey of going through the Tekton tutorial. Let's see how he does!

The Top 10 Exception Types in Production Java Applications – Based on 1B Events

Learn about the top 10 exceptions in production Java applications and how to avoid them.

How COVID-19 is Impacting Software Delivery

Harness reports a 10-15% drop in deployments due to COVID-19, underscoring the critical role of continuous delivery in ensuring business continuity during crises.

Know Your Why: Experimentation and Progressive Delivery at Walmart Grocery

Walmart Labs uses experimentation to launch impactful features safely, guided by clear “test to learn” and “test to launch” principles.

Argo Flux vs Harness - Filming My Journey

Explore how Argo Flux simplifies GitOps for Kubernetes and how Harness Platform's versatility supports any deployment methodology, from GitOps to traditional infrastructures.

Harness Product Update | March 2020

Are you as excited as I am about March updates? At Harness, we’re continuously launching new products. This really shouldn’t come as a surprise considering our platform is designed to accelerate software delivery for our customers.

Fork/Join Framework vs. Parallel Streams vs. ExecutorService: The Ultimate Fork/Join Benchmark

A close look at how the fork/join framework behaves with different configurations.

Jenkins X vs Harness - Filming my Journey

Oh ship another comparison! Jenkins X vs Harness. You don’t have to be a GitOps expert to leverage Harness. Don’t fight the double learning curve.

Welcome to the Harness Family, Kustomize!

In the race to help attain configuration and package management inside Kubernetes, Kustomize and Helm are two very popular tools to help in those domains respectively.

Supercharged jstack: How to Debug Your Servers at 100mph

Using Jstack to debug your life Java production servers.

Spinnaker vs Harness - Filming My Journey

Learn from my journey of getting Spinnaker vs Harness off the ground. Watch video to compare Spinnaker Project install to Harness Workflow.

A Developers Guide to Deploying to Kubernetes

Learn how to deploy applications to Kubernetes with this comprehensive guide. Understand containers, images, pods, and orchestration.

Harness Product Update - Serverless Dashboard

Harness celebrates 400% ARR growth, expands in Asia Pacific, and launches new features including a Serverless Dashboard and API updates for automation.

5 techniques to becoming a better coder

Stand out as a developer and accelerate software delivery! We share five tips on creating and improving software code.

IT Audits - How Continuous Delivery can Help

Everyone’s favorite word, IT audit. Not like auditing a class in college, audits are not limited to IT Risk folk.

Modern Log Layers

Discover how integrating Fluentd with Harness ECS Delegate transforms log management for better system monitoring and performance insights.

Feature Flag Anti-Patterns: Flags to Manage API Versions

While feature flags offer flexibility, they might not be the ideal tool for managing API versions. Learn about potential downsides and explore alternative solutions.

Harness Continuous Delivery Supports Helm V3

Welcome to the Harness Family, Helm V3! Your Tiller-less ways are welcome on this ship. Driven by the Harness Community, we answer.

Harness Product Update | January 2020

Discover Harness's latest updates: Azure DevOps Artifact Source, Verification Badges, and Google Cloud KMS support to enhance your deployment and security strategies.

Google Guava: 5 Things You Never Knew It Could Do

Google Guava has some lesser-known features that you might find useful.

Solving Standardization in Continuous Delivery

Discover how Harness Platform solves pipeline standardization challenges with smart governance, templates, and Git-based sync for efficient continuous delivery.

Harness Product Update | December 2019

Discover how Harness's 2019 milestones, including a $500M valuation and 300+ product releases, revolutionized continuous delivery with enhanced verification and partnerships.

Road to AWS re:Invent - Every day is Someone’s Cyber Monday

Discover how Harness leverages AWS at re:Invent 2019 to transform software delivery with elastic infrastructure and rapid deployment capabilities.

Ensuring CI CD Pipeline Governance

With our new Pipeline Governance feature, you can now measure how compliant your Harness Pipelines are with your regulatory and operations standards.

Move Fast and Fix Faster with Harness 24/7 Service Guard

Discover how Harness uses its 24/7 Service Guard and ML to ensure rapid, stable deployments, resolving production issues in minutes.

Binary to your Browser - Hello WebAssembly aka WASM

Explore how WebAssembly transforms browser processing with Harness, enabling server-side language execution directly in the browser for enhanced performance.

How to Maintain Istio Service Mesh with Harness

Time to get to shipping with your new fangled Istio Service Mesh. Supercharge your experience with Harness! Don't be afraid to take the dip.

How to: Your First Istio Service Mesh Deployment

What the ship is a Service Mesh? Can you ship said mesh or ship on said mesh? Learn how to deploy your first Istio app in our blog post!

APM: A Data Scientist's Perspective

There are two key reasons to use an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution. 1. Collect and visualize data for your app. 2. Get alerted when something bad happens.

Respond quickly to degradations in metrics with alert policies

Safeguard user experience with proactive monitoring! Split's alert policies empower you to define thresholds and receive instant notifications when metrics decline, allowing for rapid response and mitigation.

Find which feature caused an error with our new Sentry Integration

Pinpoint errors faster with Split & Sentry! Split integrates with Sentry to link error data with feature flags, enabling quicker identification of problematic features and smoother deployments.

Harness Product Update | August 2019

See what we've been up to!

Microservices Dilemma - More is More

Less is greater than More in the Unix world but for the development world, more is more. Are your pipelines ready?

Simplifying AWS Fargate deployments with Harness

Explore how AWS Fargate and Harness Platform streamline container deployment, offering flexibility across ECS, EKS, and Fargate for efficient infrastructure management.

Why Would You Decouple Deployment from Release?

Decouple deployment from release to test safely, limit risk, and ship faster without user impact or rollback stress.

Introducing Tag Management

What is tag management? Tagging is a common word developers often hear among the various software vendors they use across their DevOps toolkit. Heck, it isn’t even limited to just DevOps tools. I also can tag my transactions within my Quicken software. Tagging helps solve for a fundamental problem most people face with data explosion: […]

The Future of Kubernetes

Discover upcoming Kubernetes trends in workload management, hybrid cloud, and serverless computing. Stay updated with future developments.

Decoupling Deploy from Release: An Essential Foundation

Decouple deployment from release with feature flags to enable safer rollouts, progressive exposure, and modern software delivery practices.

Not Everything Fits in Kubernetes

Understand what workloads fit Kubernetes best and what challenges arise with legacy systems. Learn strategies for successful Kubernetes integration.

Migrating Clouds With Harness Continuous Delivery

Harness CD allows you to automate the deployment of software artifacts to any cloud or data center infrastructure, and it does this using abstraction.

Canary Deployments and Operations in Kubernetes

In the Kubernetes ecosystem there are some lines in the sand that become blurry.

Your First Kubernetes Cluster Deployment

With so many Kubernetes offerings out there, let’s take the path of least resistance to get your first cluster humming.

What’s The Difference Between Feature Flags and Other “Flags” in Software Engineering?

Feature flags enable dynamic, user-level control over feature rollouts—far beyond static config toggles or command-line flags.

Kubernetes Container Sprawl is the New VM Sprawl

Container sprawl is the new VM sprawl. With all of these containers, we need a solution to help run containers at scale. Welcome to Kubernetes!

What is a Kubernetes Container?

Come with us on a six-part journey getting you prepared to be a sharp knife in the new-fangled land of Kubernetes. From the very basic to the future, let’s get ship done.

Pipeline Strangler Pattern

Discover how Harness Platform overcomes the Pipeline Strangler effect by integrating legacy and modern tech, ensuring continuous innovation in software delivery.

The Five Phase Roadmap of a Feature Launch Plan

A successful feature release requires careful planning across five phases: dogfooding, debugging, ramping, scalability, and learning. Each phase mitigates risks, improves decision-making, and ensures long-term success.

Harness Partners With AppDynamics

We’re proud to announce our inclusion in the AppDynamics Integration Partner Program (IPP).

Harness Audit Trails - Managing Deployment Pipelines

The Harness audit trail is an electronic record of chronological events that relate to all deployment pipeline activity.

Pull Request-Driven Development

In this article, Brett teaches us about pull request-driven development.

Harness Introduces PagerDuty Support for Real-Time Deployment Notifications

PagerDuty was one of the most requested integrations by our customers. Today, all these notification channels are now supported.

Dynamic Configurations: Run more experiments without changing code

Dynamic Configs let teams instantly update feature behavior and UI elements without code changes, accelerating experimentation and iteration.

CI/CD Magic Quadrant

Learn all about the State of CD in this post.

Harness Introduces StackDriver Support for Automated Canary Deployments and Health Checks

Stackdriver is a popular monitoring tool for observing performance and diagnostic data. Learn how Harness supports Stackdriver.

Helm Support for Harness Continuous Delivery

We've upgraded our Helm integration to offer canary and blue-green deployments, automated rollbacks, and more! Check it out now.

ServiceNow for CI/CD Pipelines

Harness can manage multiple instances of ServiceNow and has complete role-based access control (RBAC) for separation of duties. Harness CD-as-a-Service.

Helping Enterprises Gain an 'Easy Button' for Continuous Delivery: Announcing Harness Series B Financing

An exciting announcement from Jyoti Bansal.

Harness CI/CD Pipelines For AWS

Harness CI/CD for AWS: AWS customers can empower their developers across AWS applications and environments - we're in the AWS Marketplace!

Harness uses Kubernetes for On-Premises Deployment

Discover how Harness uses Kubernetes for on-premises deployments. Learn about connected on-premises models for efficient software updates.

Amazon ECS Blue-Green Deployments

How to simplify Amazon ECS blue-green deployments using Harness. Learn the benefits of blue-green deployments & two ways to implement.

Harness Product Update | January 2019

Over the past 4-6 weeks, we’ve shipped some major and minor updates to Harness, including 24×7 Service Guard, Jira Ticketing, and more.

How to Choose the Right Metrics for Your Experiments

Learn how to choose impactful OECs and boost experiment sensitivity with metric filtering and capping in Split.

Garbage Collectors – Serial vs. Parallel vs. CMS vs. G1 (and what’s new in Java 8)

Learn about the different types of garbage collectors available in Java 8.

Harness 24x7 Service Guard Empowers Developers with Total Operational Control

Harness 24x7 Service Guard is like developers having a dedicated bodyguard watching their production apps 24x7. If something bad happens, it will automatically roll back code changes and protect them.

Helping you make product decisions more efficiently

Accelerate your product development process with Split's powerful feature management platform. By optimizing your A/B tests with dynamic minimum detectable effect, you can make data-driven decisions with confidence and speed.

Harness Product Update | Fall 2018

Fall 2018 update!

Harness CI/CD Pipelines for .NET and Azure

Getting CI/CD done with .NET applications. Harness CD follows 4 concepts: Services, Environments, Workflows, Pipelines.

JFrog Artifactory & Harness - Don’t Get Bogged Down With Continuous Delivery

JFrog has been a pioneer and leader in how artifacts are managed. Learn more about integrating Artifactory in Harness today.

A Time Series Machine Learning Model for Canary Deployments

Are you looking to learn how to showcase the time series machine learning model for canary analysis? See a breakdown of that process here.

CloudFormation and Terraform for Harness - Adding Infrastructure Provisioners

Do you use CloudFormation and Terraform scripts/templates? Harness introduced Infrastructure Provisioners into our deployment pipeline model.

Privacy Shield Certification added to Split Intelligent Security Framework

Enhanced security and compliance! Split adds US Privacy Shield certification, demonstrating their commitment to secure data handling within their Intelligent Security Framework.

How Harness Gets Ship Done With Zero Downtime and CD

CD with zero downtime: Let’s start with a simplified architecture overview of the Harness workflow engine. Learn more today.

Harness Extends Continuous Verification to Bugsnag

Think of Bugsnag as a quality test or verification for your deployment pipeline which you want to run for every environment you deploy code to.

Harness Introduces LDAP Support

Harness shipped RBAC and SAML integrations & support back in March 2018, and now we've added an LDAP integration to the mix! Learn more.

Harness Continuous Delivery for Red Hat OpenShift

Deploy pipelines in minutes with Red Hat OpenShift support using Harness Continuous Delivery. Learn how with a step-by-step tutorial.

How Harness’ Cloud Took 76 Minutes to Migrate to GCP and K8s

Watch a presentation from Harness staff at Google Cloud Next '20.

Zero to Hero: Kubernetes in 45 Minutes

Learn what you need to succeed with K8s in 45 mins - hosted by Ravi Lachhman.

Moving From Monolithic to Microservices

What's a monolith? What's a microservice? Let's find out about both in this webinar hosted by Steve Burton.

Before the Deployment - Source Code Management

What happens before a deployment? Ravi goes into it in this webinar.

Continuous Delivery Demo in 5 Minutes

Watch the 5 minute Continuous Delivery demo now and learn how Harness customers reduce deployment time by over 80% with our tool.

Cloud Cost Management Demo in 5 Minutes

Interested in a Cloud Cost Management demo? We've got one for you, & it's only 5 mins long. Come see how you can save big on your cloud bill!

Business Continuity Webinar

What is business continuity? Find out in this webinar hosted by Ravi Lachhman.

Deploying With Harness & AppDynamics

Let's get you a demo of the Continuous Delivery process using the Harness platform & AppDynamics - and how Continuous Verification can help.

Zero to Hero: Got PaaS

What is Platform-as-a-Service? Learn in this webinar!

Harness Template Library For Continuous Delivery

We shipped a new feature called “Template Library” that allows customers to templatize, index, and share their favorite commands/scripts.