Why Internal Developer Portal?

Increase developer productivity & satisfaction with centralized software knowledge and developer task automation.

Faster Developer Onboarding

Get new developers productive faster. Slow onboarding drains resources and impacts project timelines. An Internal Developer Portal transforms this into a swift, efficient ramp-up, boosting team velocity.

Developer Self-service with Guardrails

Much developer time is lost to routine, non-innovative tasks (toil). Harness IDP automates these through workflows with built-in standards and guardrails, freeing resources for innovation and keeping you in control.

Simplified access to tools and knowledge

Developers face cognitive overload from numerous tools and scattered information. Harness IDP acts as a central system, bringing order and clarity to this complexity.

Ensure software meets standards and compliance

Maintaining consistent practices and ensuring software quality are persistent challenges. Harness IDP provides the framework and tools to instill discipline and drive production readiness.

Definitive Guide to Developer Experience

Learn more about the breadth and depth of technology factors you’ll need to consider when thinking about improving your developer experience.

Onboarding
Faster Developer and Service 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.

Initiate new projects and services in minutes

Automate standing up your development and delivery toolchains. With out-of-the-box integrations, Harness Internal Development Portal can spin up and wire together repos, agile projects and pipelines.

Build Software Templates with best practices baked in

Harness IDP's "golden paths" utilize compliant templates for rapid deployment, letting developers start quickly, instead of waiting for traditionally slow manual processes.

One-Click Environment Setup

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.

Software Catalog
Your Engineering Center of Knowledge

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.

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.

Track dependencies across services

Who’s using this? What might break if we update this API? Visualize upstream and downstream dependencies in a clear graph, allowing developers to instantly assess the impact of changes and prevent breaking services.

Scorecards
Automate Standards and Compliance

Measure software maturity

Gain confidence by measuring if a service is really gold standard from a DevOps, Security and Development maturity view. Of course, you get to define what those standards are in your organization.

Drive migrations and adoption of standards

Planning to run a long upgrade of the core framework version or a programming language? Get an overview of the trend - how many applications have migrated and which ones need a push.

Enforce Best Practices

Is the API success rate good? Is the documentation up to date? Does a service use the stable versions of your tech stack? Track everything using checks, and holding teams accountable for your best practices.

Backstage
Backstage Without the Overhead

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.

Plugins
Flexible plugin system

Harness CI/CD

PagerDuty

Kubernetes

Firehydrant

Jira

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

With Harness IDP we have a central place where all services are made available, setting up a project, which used to take weeks, is much easier and faster, and developers migrate code between environments at the click of a button, with assurance that the scanning and security management are taken care of.

Satish Balasubramanian
VP, Head of Architecture & Shared Services

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