Continuous Integration
Harness Software Delivery Agent uses AI to accelerate continuous integration. Builds and tests run at scale, so every change is safely taken through production at AI velocity.
Why teams choose Harness Software Delivery Agent for continuous integration and builds.
AI writes code faster than legacy CI can build it
Build Intelligence, Docker Layer Caching, and Harness Cloud cut build time at every layer.
Full test suites, regressions, and flaky tests block every PR
Test Intelligence runs only what matters, flaky tests are quarantined automatically, and coverage gates catch regressions.
1,000 pipelines, 1,000 different standards. AI isn't governed
Golden templates + OPA policies enforced at every build. AI is governed
Move fast. Stay compliant. Every build, every time.
Pipeline Authoring. Describe your stack. Get a production-ready pipeline with caching, tests, and security scanning already configured.
Error Analyzer. Build breaks? AI cross-references your commits, deps, and test history to pinpoint root cause in seconds.
Worker Agents for CI. Autonomous pipeline agents (such as Code Review, Autofix) that execute specialized software delivery tasks within governed workflows.
Build Insights. Track build minutes and compute waste across every team. AI surfaces what to fix and where credits go.
Build Intelligence. Incremental builds cache unchanged compilation outputs. If a module didn't change, it doesn't rebuild.
Docker Layer Caching. 1-click caching for Docker layers and package manager dependencies: Maven, npm, Gradle, pip, and more. No YAML required.
Harness Cloud. Fully managed, isolated build machines for Mac, Linux, and Windows. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure to maintain.
Test Intelligence. AI analyzes your codebase and selects only the tests impacted by a code change.
Flaky Test Detection and Quarantine. Automatically detects and quarantines non-deterministic tests.
Code coverage. Set a coverage threshold. If a PR drops below it, the pipeline blocks.
As teams and continuous integration pipelines grow, the gaps show: no policy enforcement, no audit trails, no guardrails on who can change what. Harness Software Delivery Agent ships with enterprise governance built in from day one.
Automatically generate Software Bills of Materials and achieve SLSA Level 3 compliance as part of every build. Built in, not bolted on.
OPA-based policy enforcement, golden pipeline templates, and fine-grained RBAC. Developer autonomy with enterprise guardrails.
Run builds on Kubernetes, VMs, bare metal, or Harness Cloud. Every cloud, every language, every architecture: one pipeline model.
Build agents with existing tools. Harness CI packages them like any other microservice.
Split builds and test suites across parallel nodes automatically. Cut a 40-minute build to minutes without touching your pipeline YAML.
With cloud machines that are fine-tuned for building and testing code, ensuring your pipelines run smoothly regardless of complexity or volume.
Golden pipeline templates teams actually adopt: no drift, no guesswork
Enforce standards with OPA policies, not tribal knowledge
Builds and tests run as fast as possible, unblocking the CI bottleneck
“Prior to Harness, a CI pipeline build for an airport operation application took nearly 22 minutes. Now, it's done in under 5 minutes for the exact same code.”
— Ratna Devarapalli, Director of IT - Architecture, United Airlines
“50 templates replaced 36,000 scripted pipelines. Builds went from hours to minutes. If another Log4j hit, we could respond in minutes - not weeks.”
— Kyle Binns, Platform Engineering, Morningstar
“We achieved 40% faster builds and 90% faster deployments using Harness CI/CD.”
— Venelin Koulaxazov, Software Development Manager, WorkJam
Harness CI plugs into your SCM, build tools, test frameworks, artifact registries, cloud providers, and observability stack: no rip-and-replace.
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Harness CI is a continuous integration platform that securely accelerates build and test execution times by almost 8x. It uses AI-powered features, including organization-specific pipeline generation, build troubleshooting, and Test Intelligence, along with Docker Layer Caching and hyper-optimized infrastructure to help teams build and test code faster. The Harness Code Repository (Git-based SCM) comes free as part of Harness CI.
Harness's Build Intelligence and Docker Layer Caching features use smart caching at every step of the build process, caching build outputs from Gradle, Bazel, and Maven, as well as Docker layers and package manager dependencies. This significantly reduces build times and improves efficiency.
Test Intelligence uses AI to identify and run only the tests that matter based on your code changes, accelerating test cycles by up to 80% and significantly reducing developer wait time.
Harness Cloud is Harness's hosted build infrastructure. It provides lightning-fast builds on optimized virtual machines while ensuring tamper-proof, SLSA Level 3-compliant builds through robust security features: no infrastructure to manage on your end.
Yes. Harness CI supports first-class integrations with GitHub Actions, Bitrise Workflow Steps, Drone Plugins, and all major git-based SCM providers.
Yes. Harness provides a Migration Utility (https://harness.io/jenkins) that automates the conversion of pipelines from Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and other CI systems into Harness CI. It translates your existing pipeline definitions, preserving stages, steps, and environment variables, so teams can migrate without rewriting everything from scratch. For complex pipelines, the AI-powered authoring in Pipeline AI can generate an equivalent Harness pipeline from a plain-language description of your stack.
Try Harness Software Delivery Agent free — no credit card. Full access to Test Intelligence, Build Intelligence, Docker Layer Caching, and Harness Cloud for continuous integration at scale.
