AI-Powered Internal Developer Portal
Built for Developers, Crafted by Platform Engineers
Unify the Developer Experience
The Harness Internal Developer Portal centralizes services, environments, and documentation so developers can discover, deploy, and manage everything in one place.
Accelerate Productivity with AI
Harness AI automates repetitive tasks, surfaces answers instantly, and streamlines workflows to improve developer focus and delivery speed.
Simplify Environment Management
Harness IDP automates setup, governance, and lifecycle control for every environment to ensure consistency, compliance, and speed from development to production.
Knowledge Agent
Developer Self-service with Guardrails
Eliminate wasteful toil and "TicketOps" bottlenecks with guarded, self-service workflows that automate routine tasks and keep your developers in a state of flow.
A Catalog of "Golden Path" Workflows
Empower platform engineers to define a curated catalog of options, giving developers the freedom to self-serve within safe, pre-approved boundaries.
Enterprise-grade orchestration engine
Reliably automate even the most complex technical workflows at scale with a powerful engine built for enterprise-level demands.
Stay on rails with RBAC, policy-as-code, and audit trails
Enable safe developer self-service by using policy-as-code and RBAC as automated guardrails, with detailed audit trails to ensure all actions are secure and compliant.
Faster Developer Onboarding
New developers often face a frustrating scavenger hunt for the right documentation and people while wrestling with complex environment setups, stalling projects before they can even contribute.
Easy access to information and people
Instantly connects new developers with the people and documentation they need, ensuring they know exactly who to talk to and how to get started.
Standardized Service Creation for Instant Kickstarts
Ensure every developer starts with a consistent, pre-configured setup. Harness IDP’s self-service offers consistent means for creating environments, tools, and infrastructure, eliminating "it works on my machine" issues.
Your Engineering Center of Knowledge
When critical information about your software is scattered across dozens of tools and teams, developers waste precious time hunting instead of building. An engineering center of knowledge centralizes this intelligence, creating a reliable foundation for efficient and confident development.
A Single Place to Find Everything
Instantly find service owners, tech docs, APIs, and more with a powerful, unified search that queries your entire ecosystem. This consolidated view ends constant context switching, so developers get answers immediately without having to ask.
See How Everything is Connected
Visualize upstream and downstream dependencies in a clear graph, allowing developers to instantly assess the impact of changes and prevent breaking services.
A Catalog That Stays Updated
Effortlessly keep the catalog current with updates via Git, API, or UI, ensuring high adoption and a reliably fresh source of truth by fitting into existing workflows.
Intelliflo Drives 20x Deployment Velocity and Developer Productivity with Harness CD & IDP
To accelerate developer onboarding and productivity, Intelliflo selected Harness IDP over building its own solution on Backstage.
Automate Standards and Compliance
When critical information about your software is scattered across dozens of tools and teams, developers waste precious time hunting instead of building. An engineering center of knowledge centralizes this intelligence, creating a reliable foundation for efficient and confident development.
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Turn Standards into Actionable Scores
Translate any standard, from security to production readiness, into an automated score that instantly reveals the gap between a service's current and desired state.
Holistic Data for Accurate Scores
Fuel every scorecard with accurate, real-time data by connecting to tools from across the entire SDLC, like Git, PagerDuty, and infrastructure as code.
Component-Level and Bird's-Eye Views
Track service maturity at every level. Drill down into a single component’s score or zoom out for a high-level view of overall readiness across your entire organization.
Always-Current Scores
Eliminate manual reporting and ensure metrics are always current. Scorecard data is collected automatically, providing a real-time, trustworthy view of adherence to your standards.
Enterprise-grade security & governance
Enforce security and governance policies consistently at enterprise scale, ensuring every action remains compliant, auditable, and secure as your teams and services grow.
SSO and Precise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Implement a precise security model using a combination of SSO, team hierarchy, and role-based permissions, ensuring every user has exactly the access they need—and nothing more.
Automated Governance with Policy-as-Code
Codify your governance rules using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to automatically enforce security and operational policies at scale, ensuring consistent and repeatable enforcement.
Centralized and Secure Secrets Vault
Centrally and securely manage all your secrets, tokens, and keys, preventing them from being hardcoded in source code and providing applications with safe, just-in-time access.
Full Visibility for Audit and Compliance
Maintain a complete, immutable record of every action taken within the platform, providing full visibility for security audits, incident response, and compliance requirements.
Centralize Information from All Your Tools
Drive developer adoption by letting teams arrange data from all their tools into a single, customized homepage that ends the daily pain of context switching.
Break Down Data Silos
Integrate any data source, whether it's a homegrown internal tool or a third-party API, to surface all relevant information directly within the developer portal.
Securely Leverage the Best of Backstage Plugins
Leverage the power of the vast Backstage ecosystem of over 200 plugins. Easily add new functionality from a curated library of plugins, giving you innovation from open-source without the typical maintenance headaches.
Customize for In-House Tools & Workflows
Build your own plugins to support your unique internal systems and workflows, offering limitless possibilities to extend the platform and solve your specific business challenges.
Deluxe Accelerates Development with Harness IDP
By choosing Harness for CI and CD, we were able to give the governance policies to the developers and create the guardrails we needed. Harness gives us a platform rather than just a DevOps tool.
Backstage without the Overhead
Harness IDP delivers all the flexibility of the Backstage framework with the enterprise-grade security, reliability, and support you need, eliminating the significant cost and effort of building and maintaining it yourself.
Adopt or Migrate to Harness IDP with Ease
Harness IDP is an extension of the Backstage framework, protecting your investment. Seamlessly migrate your current instance to our managed platform and gain advanced capabilities without rebuilding.
Get Enterprise Features from Day One
Open-source Backstage lacks crucial enterprise capabilities like RBAC, SSO, and powerful orchestration, requiring huge engineering investment. Harness IDP includes these features, ready to go.
Eliminate Maintenance and Upgrade Headaches
Self-managing Backstage means constant work—security patching, version upgrades, and infrastructure maintenance. Harness IDP is a fully managed SaaS platform, so we handle all of that for you.
Your developers deserve a well organized, central place for all their stuff. Give it to them
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Harness IDP designed for global enterprises and distributed teams?
Yes. Harness IDP scales across teams, clouds, and regions. It provides secure, reliable workflows and governance for distributed engineering organizations, and delivers a consistent, high-quality developer experience.
What business outcomes can we expect from deploying Harness IDP?
Teams using Harness IDP typically see faster onboarding, higher self-service adoption, improved deployment velocity, fewer support tickets, and better visibility into software health. These gains translate into higher developer satisfaction and lower operational friction.
How does governance, compliance, and security work in Harness IDP?
Harness IDP includes enterprise-grade governance features like role-based access control (RBAC), Policy as Code enforcement, audit trails, and secrets management. Scorecards help teams automatically track and maintain compliance with security and reliability standards.
What tool integrations and plugins are supported by Harness IDP?
Harness IDP integrates with major tools across development, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure (like GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI, Datadog, Snyk, Kubernetes, and more). It also supports custom plugins for in-house tools and workflows.
How does Harness IDP speed up developer onboarding and productivity?
Harness IDP gives developers instant access to the right people, documentation, repositories, and setup workflows. It replaces manual setup and tickets with guided self-service, so developers can start contributing on day one.
What are the key features of Harness IDP?
Harness IDP includes everything platform engineering and development teams need to boost productivity and improve developer experience:
- A unified software and service catalog
- Self-service workflows with pre-approved “golden-path” templates
- Environment Management to create and manage development environments safely and on demand
- Scorecards for standards, readiness, and compliance
- AI-powered assistance to find answers or run workflows instantly
- Deep tool integrations and plugin support
- Enterprise-grade governance, RBAC, and audit visibility
Can we migrate from Backstage to Harness IDP?
Yes. Harness IDP supports seamless migration from Backstage. You can keep your existing catalogs, plugins, and workflows while gaining enterprise features like RBAC, SSO, Policy as Code, environment management, automated orchestration, and managed SaaS reliability.
Which teams benefit most from using Harness IDP?
Harness IDP helps platform engineering, developer experience, DevOps, and SRE teams streamline workflows and improve productivity. Engineering leaders also use it to enforce best practices, maintain governance, and measure software health across large organizations.
How does Harness IDP differ from a service catalog or standalone tool?
Harness IDP goes beyond a traditional service catalog. It includes self-service workflows, environment management, scorecards, AI-powered assistance, and built-in governance. All this within a unified internal developer platform designed for modern engineering teams.
What is an Internal Developer Portal (IDP)?
An Internal Developer Portal (IDP) is a centralized platform where engineers can find services, documentation, tools, and workflows in one place. It’s built to improve developer experience, streamline workflows, and support platform engineering efforts that drive developer productivity.