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What is Argo CD with Helm Charts?

In this article, we will walk through how GitOps can be implemented using Argo CD with Helm charts.

How to Set Up Helm Rollbacks in Harness

Let's set up a pipeline for a Helm deployment and create a Rollback to kick in and restore the previous version.

How Harness Implemented CDN for Its UI Services

In this blog, we’ll walk through what a CDN is and how Harness implemented it into our environment.

Integrating Automated Security and Testing in Your CI/CD Pipeline

We'll show you how to integrate security tools, suites and frameworks of your choice into your continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using the Harness platform.

How To Implement CI/CD Efficiently

Let’s explore how you can adopt CI/CD to improve your organization’s efficiency and delivery pipeline in Harness.

GitOps Architecture Explained

In this article, we discuss the underlying architecture that makes GitOps possible, along with tools you’ll need and advice for getting started.

How the New Features in Harness Continuous Integration Fit in Your Environment

Let’s take a closer look at how the new Harness Continuous Integration Cache Intelligence, Testing Intelligence, and Hosted Builds features work and how they can fit into your environment.

Introducing Harness CI/CD Plugin for Backstage

With the Harness CI/CD plugin for Backstage, developers can see the executions of Harness pipelines inside Backstage.

Why GitOps is Necessary for Cloud-Native Enterprises

Let's talk about GitOps and its benefits then integrate Argo with a Kubernetes cluster to deliver changes.

What is Argo CD?

Argo CD is an open-source GitOps continuous delivery tool. It monitors your cluster and your declaratively-defined infrastructure stored in a Git repository and resolves differences between the two — effectively automating an application deployment.

What is the Difference Between a CTO and VP of Engineering?

A look at the qualities necessary for a successful VP of engineering and how this role differs from the CTO.

Deploying a To-Do Application to Kubernetes with Harness

This tutorial shows how we can easily deploy a Kubernetes to-do application using Harness CI/CD.

What is the Purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?

Tips for improving your sprint retrospective meetings.

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 rebound, or recover, from a disruption of service.

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.

How to Leverage Machine Learning to Detect Cloud Spend Anomalies

To make predictions on cost data, we tested both statistical and neural net models and compared their performance on different time series datasets.

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

We’re thrilled to debut as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2022 GigaOm Radar Report for Feature Flags. This award exemplifies how Harness Feature Flags delivers on its promise as an innovative feature flag platform.

Balancing Developer Freedom and Governance with OPA

Besides good beer, the next biggest component in developer happiness is to have access to the tools and processes to get their job done quickly and effectively.

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

With so many CI tools on the market, knowing which one is best for your organization can be tricky. Let's discuss why Jenkins is not a suitable CI tool for modern enterprises and how you can migrate to Drone CI.

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.

Announcing Flag Pipelines to Automate Feature Flag Governance and Daily Management

Harness is extending how you can use pipelines with the launch of a new concept, Flag Pipelines, to automate feature flag governance and daily management.

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

Today, we are announcing that Harness Feature Flags now has an open source Apex SDK. We are excited to power a new generation of Salesforce app development, giving users the ability to iterate and ship business-critical applications more quickly and safely.

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

While many of these development practices may feel commonplace, if you're doing these, you're not actually doing continuous delivery at all.

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.

The Basics of GitOps Secrets Management

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

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.

What is Chaos Engineering? Intro, Definition & More

Learn more about the chaos engineering discipline and how it can take your development cycle to the next level.

The Top Chaos Engineering Tools

Are you looking for a new chaos engineering tool? We evaluated the top open-source and commercial chaos engineering tools to consider when building your chaos toolkit.

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.

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

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!

Has Your DevOps Revolution Hit a Wall?

In many companies, the writing, provisioning, and deploying of software are separated. But there’s good news: Modern DevOps is attainable to all. The journey is a continuum, and you just have to keep moving up the curve to maturity.

Solutions to the 3 Biggest Challenges with Enterprise GitOps

GitOps is on a trajectory to become the next breakthrough technology, growing in popularity that is primed to hit widespread enterprise adoption in short order. These are the three biggest technical hurdles that we see preventing GitOps from being adopted enterprise-wide.

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.

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.

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

We’re excited to announce that Harness Feature Flags now supports the open source PHP SDK.

Cycle Time is Not Lead Time

Why cycle time and lead time are very different metrics in the DevOps world.

Feature Flags Policy Governance Tutorial

In this post, we go in depth to teach you all about the Feature Flags’ policy governance: architecture, use cases, data available to utilize, and more.

Node.js Unit Testing Automation With Drone CI Using Jest Framework

Learn how to do node.js unit testing automation with Drone CI using the Jest framework.

Start Deploying in 5 Minutes with a Delegate-first Approach‍

We’re excited to announce that there’s a new Delegate-first approach for Harness pipelines. If you’re just getting started with the Harness platform, you’ll find this approach helpful for onboarding quickly.

Node.js Unit Testing Automation With Drone CI Using Jest Framework

Learn how to do node.js unit testing automation with Drone CI using the Jest framework.

Kubernetes Application Deployment Strategies

Learn about the differences between rolling, canary releases or blue/green deployments for deploying production-ready containerized applications into Kubernetes.

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.

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.

Node.js Unit Testing Automation With Drone CI Using Mocha Framework

Learn how to do continuous integration (CI) using Drone CI, and taking a simple Node.js application and Mocha as the unit testing framework.

How to Create a Simple Helm Chart

Learn how to create a simple Helm chart to package and deploy individual Kubernetes applications.

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

As GitOps evolves into a new industry standard for continuous software delivery, Harness is proud to introduce generally available enterprise capabilities for GitOps deployments with governance, reliability, and visibility at scale as a part of the most comprehensive software delivery platform on the market.

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.

Speed, Isolation, Developer Experience: Pick Two for CI/CD

Developers don't have to settle for less. Virtual machines make continuous integration and delivery easier than ever.

Creating an Open Standard for Feature Flags

Harness is excited to announce our participation in OpenFeature, a new open source project that establishes a standard for feature flag management.

What is CircleCI? A Look at Features and Use Cases

In this review, we go over what continuous integrations is, what CircleCI is, pros and cons, use cases, and how it compares to Harness CI.

Introducing On-Premise Support for Feature Flags to Deploy More Securely

This new deployment model is particularly important for organizations that have complex self-hosted software delivery models, including government and public sector organizations with highly specific regulatory and implementation requirements, as well as enterprise security companies.

Dockerfile Best Practices

Docker Best Practices in 2022. This article will explain more about Docker, as well as how to write the optimal Docker file to build and deploy your applications

The Women of DevOps: Sharyl Jones

The Women of DevOps: Sharyl Jones, VP DevOps & Partner at Indellient Inc.

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

We’ve incorporated valuable end user feedback into several key new features, which we are now excited to announce with the General Availability (GA) of the Harness Security Testing Orchestration module.

Why Choosing the Right Measurement Frequency is Crucial

To get insight into your engineering organization, you need to look at metrics in the short-term and the medium-term.

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.

Feature Flags: Should I Build or Buy?

For a lot of companies, feature flags tools are built internally first. Sometimes this means pretty robust solutions, built off open-source tooling or existing internal rules engines - and, sometimes it means simple configuration switches stored in a file in the repo or database.

Introducing Harness Feature Flags

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

Announcing Feature Flags Analytics & Business Intelligence

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

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: Relay Proxy Service for Feature Management

The Relay Proxy service for feature management is here! Say goodbye to the stress of managing feature availability securely at scale.

Announcing Support for Xamarin in Harness Feature Flags

It's here: Xamarin support for Feature Flags! More coming soon.

Progressive Delivery: Everything You Need to Know

Progressive delivery is the best practice in software development & DevOps for introducing new features. Learn more about progressive delivery from Harness today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kubernetes Services Explained

This tutorial will explain the difference between four Kubernetes service types, and how you should choose the best one for your application.

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.

SPACE Metrics: How to Get Started

A look at SPACE metrics and how they differ from DORA metrics.

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

Learn about SPACE metrics and how they close the gap left by DORA metrics in the human and emotional aspect of developer teams.

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

Declarative, immutable, and continuously reconciled infrastructure brings many benefits when managed through GitOps best practices. Here are four approaches to managing code used in those pipelines.

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

Chaos Engineering emerged in 2010 to test system stability, & is now widely adopted in DevOps. Let's learn about Chaos Engineering benefits.

The Women of DevOps: Ana Carla Cavalcante

The Women of DevOps: Ana Carla Cavalcante, SRE Manager at Hash

5 GitOps Misconceptions Busted

GitOps is still new, but it has enormous advantages. We see some misconceptions that revolve around GitOps—so today, we’re going to bust them.

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.

Introducing Global Governance Policies for Feature Flags To Deploy Faster and Safer

We are on a journey with Harness Feature Flags of building key components for governance across the entire system and tying them together. Governance policies for Feature Flags are a huge step forward. Learn more.

Harness AAPI Employee Spotlight

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

GitOps Tools & Kubernetes Gitops Tools

We’ve compiled a list of the best GitOps tools to help you choose the best one for your organization. We’ve included open source and paid tools, and compared features for you. Read on for our unbiased look at the GitOps tools on the market.

Software Development Metrics 101

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

What Are GitOps Principles?

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

Why Integrate CI/CD Natively With Feature Flags

CI/CD and Feature Flags: We've written on why it makes sense to combine them in the past - here's a deeper look into native integration.

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.

Harness Blog

What is Argo CD with Helm Charts?

How to Set Up Helm Rollbacks in Harness

How Harness Implemented CDN for Its UI Services

Integrating Automated Security and Testing in Your CI/CD Pipeline

How To Implement CI/CD Efficiently

GitOps Architecture Explained

How the New Features in Harness Continuous Integration Fit in Your Environment

Introducing Harness CI/CD Plugin for Backstage

Why GitOps is Necessary for Cloud-Native Enterprises

What is Argo CD?

What is the Difference Between a CTO and VP of Engineering?

Deploying a To-Do Application to Kubernetes with Harness

What is the Purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?

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

Introduction to Harness Cluster Orchestrator for Amazon EKS

How to Leverage Machine Learning to Detect Cloud Spend Anomalies

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

Balancing Developer Freedom and Governance with OPA

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

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

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

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

Announcing Flag Pipelines to Automate Feature Flag Governance and Daily Management

Harness Honors Harnessians Who Served This Veterans Day

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

Announcing Support for Apex in Harness Feature Flags

Why Don't CTOs Have a Platform?

Introducing the Harness Developer Hub - Beta Release

CI/CD Challenges and How to Solve Them

Spotlight: Summer 2022 Harness Interns

10 Signs You Don't Do Continuous Delivery

Announcing Speed Enhancements and Hosted Builds for Harness Continuous Integration

How to Configure Your Builds with JFrog Artifactory and Harness

The Basics of GitOps Secrets Management

Why 42% of Developers Are Thinking About Quitting Their Jobs

What is Chaos Engineering? Intro, Definition & More

The Top Chaos Engineering Tools

Join the Harness Hacktoberfest Open Source Software Celebration

Introducing Delegate Installation via Helm

Getting Started With Helm

Has Your DevOps Revolution Hit a Wall?

Solutions to the 3 Biggest Challenges with Enterprise GitOps

Dynamic Triggers in Harness for git events

Learn More About the Harness Resource Center

Simplifying Multi-Step Dockerfile with Drone Pipeline

Announcing Support for PHP in Harness Feature Flags

Cycle Time is Not Lead Time

Feature Flags Policy Governance Tutorial

Node.js Unit Testing Automation With Drone CI Using Jest Framework

Start Deploying in 5 Minutes with a Delegate-first Approach‍

Node.js Unit Testing Automation With Drone CI Using Jest Framework

Kubernetes Application Deployment Strategies

Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part One

Harness Celebrates Hispanic + Latino Heritage Month

Node.js Unit Testing Automation With Drone CI Using Mocha Framework

How to Create a Simple Helm Chart

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

What Puts Harness Among 10 Top Providers in Cloud Cost Management

Architecting Harness CI for scale

Speed, Isolation, Developer Experience: Pick Two for CI/CD

Creating an Open Standard for Feature Flags

What is CircleCI? A Look at Features and Use Cases

Introducing On-Premise Support for Feature Flags to Deploy More Securely

Dockerfile Best Practices

The Women of DevOps: Sharyl Jones

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

Why Choosing the Right Measurement Frequency is Crucial

Data-Led Actionability for VP of Engineering

Introducing codeAbout Livestream Series for the Harness User Community

Feature Flags: Should I Build or Buy?

Introducing Harness Feature Flags

Announcing Feature Flags Analytics & Business Intelligence

Targeted Rollouts and Release Progression

Announcing: Relay Proxy Service for Feature Management

Announcing Support for Xamarin in Harness Feature Flags

Progressive Delivery: Everything You Need to Know

Standardizing CI Workflows with Harness Continuous Integration and Jira

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

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

The Modern Software Delivery Platform^®