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Boost Developer Productivity: 8 Key Questions | Harness Blog

Discover 8 critical questions engineering leaders must ask to measure and improve developer productivity. Learn how to assess team velocity, identify bottlenecks, and leverage DORA metrics for data-driven decisions that enhance engineering performance and developer experience. Why does developer productivity feel like it's declining even as your team grows? You hire more engineers, yet features ship slower. Sprint velocity looks healthy on paper, but deployment frequency tells a different story.

Cloud Cost Optimization Strategy: Fix Your Approach | Harness Blog

Cloud cost optimization often fails not because the tools are broken, but because organizations use outdated approaches. This article explores why traditional cost optimization strategies fall short and reveals how modern FinOps practices and governance frameworks drive sustainable cloud savings. Your cloud cost optimization strategy just flagged a $47,000 anomaly in last month's Kubernetes spend. Finance wants answers. Engineering claims everything is running normally.

Install Terraform: Secure & Scalable IaC Setup Guide | Harness Blog

This comprehensive guide walks you through installing Terraform with a focus on security hardening and scalable infrastructure automation. You'll learn installation steps across platforms, configuration best practices, and how to set up Terraform for production-ready IaC deployments that grow with your organization's needs.

Engineer Cloud Cost Awareness: Why It Fails & Fixes | Harness Blog

Engineers often ignore cloud costs due to lack of visibility, misaligned incentives, and disconnected workflows. This guide explores the root causes and provides actionable strategies to embed cost awareness into engineering culture, including automation, real-time feedback, and FinOps best practices that make cost optimization a natural part of the development process.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Feature Flag Implementation in CI/CD Pipelines | Harness Blog

Engineering teams often deploy code much faster than they can safely release new features to users. This gap can create risks if releases skip testing, approvals, or gradual rollouts. Feature flags help by separating deployment from release, so you can ship code continuously and control which features users see through configuration.

Catch AI Agent Failures Before They Ship | Harness AI Evals

AI agent quality should not depend on manual checks. But for many teams shipping AI in production, agent failures are silent. The agent doesn't crash - it just gives confidently wrong answers, and your monitoring sees nothing wrong. Without automated guardrails, plausible-sounding wrong responses, hallucinations, and quality regressions reach customers before anyone notices.

Feature Flag Security in your CI/CD Pipeline | Harness Blog

Incorporating robust security measures into feature flag management is critical to protecting sensitive data and maintaining compliance. Harness FME security features, like remote evaluations in Thin SDKs and governed AI flag cleanup, let you practice security by design and standardize solid security practices across your teams.

DevOps Toolchain Explained: How to Build One That Actually Scales | Harness Blog

A DevOps toolchain that scales is the smallest unified stack with central governance and golden paths, not the longest list. 71% of teams say context-switching drains productivity; 73% of leaders report barely any teams have golden paths (Harness). AI coding speed stresses the after-code stages where DevOps toolchain sprawl creates the biggest governance gaps. Unified platforms keep governance, verification, and rollback consistent as AI raises code volume entering the pipeline.

Chaos Testing Just Got Easier | New ChaosHub & AI Prompt Library | Resilience Testing | Harness

In this video, we explore two major improvements to the Harness Resilience Testing documentation designed to help you build and manage chaos experiments more efficiently. What's new: ChaosHub Integration AI Prompt Library for Harness MCP These updates make it significantly easier to discover chaos experiments and leverage AI throughout your chaos engineering workflow. If you're using Harness Resilience Testing, this walkthrough will help you get started quickly and make the most of the new documentation experience.

Introducing Harness Agent DLC: Extending your SDLC to AI Agents

Harness Agent DLC: Ship AI Agents to Production Safely Building an AI agent is easy. Getting one into production safely is where teams get stuck. Harness Agent DLC extends the software delivery lifecycle to AI agents, giving teams a clear path to evaluate, deploy, secure, observe, and optimize agents in production. Learn more: Because agents dynamically choose their own tools, APIs, and actions, their behavior can change every time they run. Harness Agent DLC gives engineering teams the controls needed to move beyond experiments and operate agents safely at scale.

Introducing AI Agent Deployment in Harness Continuous Delivery | Harness Blog

‍Teams building agents have converged on something that looks a lot like the software development lifecycle, but reshaped around a system whose output isn't deterministic: prototype an agent against a framework, evaluate it against a dataset of expected behavior, deploy it somewhere real, observe how it behaves against live traffic, and feed what you learn back into the next prototype. Call it the agent development lifecycle (Agent DLC).

Introducing Harness AgentTrace: An Observability and Guardrail Framework for AI Agents | Harness Blog

AI agents fail differently from the software we spent the last two decades learning to monitor. We hear some version of the same story from teams shipping agents to production: an agent starts producing wrong answers. Not obviously broken: confident, well-formatted, plausible wrong. The logs are clean, latency looks healthy, and error rates sit at zero. Nothing flags a problem. A user eventually does.

Software Release Management: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams | Harness Blog

Software release management moves code through testing, approval, and into production with a clear rollback plan. 72% of organizations have hit a production incident from AI-generated code; developers now ship 63% faster (Harness, 2025). Effective release management needs defined stages, approval gates, automated testing, and the ability to roll back quickly. Feature flags, automated safety gates, and progressive delivery let teams ship faster and safer as AI raises code volume.

Infrastructure as Code Isn't Enough: Why Database Delivery Must Evolve | Harness Blog

‍ For more than a decade, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has transformed how engineering organizations build and operate systems. Infrastructure became programmable, provisioning became repeatable, and configuration became version-controlled. Teams gained the ability to automate environment creation, enforce policy consistently, and scale infrastructure operations far beyond what manual processes could support.

Microsoft's 570 Patches Just Armed Every Attacker

Microsoft patched 570 security vulnerabilities this Patch Tuesday — but every patch is also a public disclosure. The second those fixes drop, attackers know exactly where 570 weaknesses live. The only question that matters: can you find and patch them across your entire environment before someone exploits them? The speed of discovery is only increasing. Are you ready for the velocity of this new world? Let us know in the comments.

Identity and Permissions for AI Worker Agents in Harness | Harness Blog

When we launched Autonomous Worker Agents, governance inherited, not integrated, was the core promise: agents run inside the same pipelines, and inherit the same RBAC, policy, and audit trails already governing production, rather than getting security bolted on after the fact.

Harness + Cursor IDE: Accelerating Safe Software Delivery with AI Agents

While AI coding assistants help developers write code faster than ever, the traditional manual workflows for delivery, security, governance, and production readiness often create a bottleneck. In this demo, see how Cursor and Harness bridge this gap by turning AI-generated code into a safe, governed, and production-ready software delivery lifecycle right from your IDE.

You're already using AI without realizing it

You're already using AI without even thinking about it. That's the realization that kicks off this ShipTalk moment: Apple Maps quietly using on-device machine learning to learn your routes and driving habits — complete trust, zero thought. Which raises the real question: why aren't we there yet with AI in software delivery? The answer comes down to one word: guardrails. Consumer AI earned invisible trust. Shipping software hasn't — not until the guardrails catch up.

Announcing the Harness CLI: Built for Humans and Agents | Harness Blog

---‍Key Takeaway: Today, we're launching the public beta of the Harness CLI: the single, officially supported command-line tool for the entire Harness platform. It replaces the older per-module CLIs with one binary, one grammar, and one auth flow across pipelines, CD, code, artifacts, IaCM, feature flags, governance, and audit. Designed for secure DevSecOps and enables terminal workflows for developers and deterministic execution for AI agents. ---

DevOps Platform Explained: Why Unified Wins Over Siloed Tools | Harness Blog

A DevOps platform unifies the entire software delivery lifecycle. Unlike standalone tools that automate individual tasks, a DevOps platform connects CI/CD, security, governance, artifact management, infrastructure, and engineering workflows into a single software delivery system. Tool sprawl creates operational complexity as engineering organizations scale.

Why the U.S. Locked Down Fable and Mythos: AI, National Security, and the Workforce Squeeze

The U.S. just barred foreign nationals from accessing two advanced AI models — Fable and Mythos — citing national security. Around the same time, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that AI-enabled cyberattacks are "months, not years" away. In Season 5 of ShipTalk, host Adam and co-host Martin dig into whether that warning is already overdue — and what it means for the people actually defending software.

Compliance Without Complexity: Introducing Harness Rego Policy Packs | Harness Blog

In the fast-paced world of modern software delivery, compliance is often a bottleneck. While our existing OPA-based Policy as Code feature has long empowered teams to encode complex authorization checks and enforce granular governance across their DevOps workflows, we know that starting from a blank page can be daunting. Security and governance teams struggle to keep up with the volume of releases, while developers often find the initial setup of these policies to be time-consuming.

Poisoning The Pipeline: How The Mastra AI Ecosystem Was Poisoned At The Registry Level | Harness Blog

The open-source landscape has witnessed another highly automated, ecosystem-level subversion. On June 17, 2026, a critical software supply chain attack struck the Mastra AI framework - a popular open-source TypeScript ecosystem used widely to build AI agents, workflows and RAG pipelines. By exploiting a compromised contributor account, threat actors successfully mass-published 144 malicious packages under the official @mastra npm scope.

AI Is Writing More Code Than Ever. Your Release Process Hasn't Kept Up. | Harness Blog

A new report from LeadDev and Harness makes one thing clear: AI coding tools have fundamentally changed how much code organizations are producing. What has not changed nearly fast enough is how that code gets released. The State of AI-Driven Software Releases 2026 report, based on responses from 500424 engineers across industries and company sizes, puts real numbers behind a problem that engineering leaders have been feeling for a while. AI is accelerating the code creation side of the SDLC.

How We Secured AI Worker Agents in Harness | Harness Blog

When we launched Autonomous Worker Agents, the message we led with was simple: governance is inherited, not integrated. Agents don't get security bolted on after the fact. They inherit the OPA policies, RBAC, and audit trails already running your production pipelines. This post is about the layer underneath that promise: isolation. We let an Autonomous Worker Agent run shell commands and call APIs inside our pipelines.

Prepare for the EU AI Act with Harness AI Security | Harness Blog

Harness AI Security provides a unified control plane for AI discovery, risk visibility, and runtime protection, helping organizations operationalize key requirements of the EU AI Act. Instead of relying on manual audits or fragmented tooling, teams get continuous insight into how AI systems are built, exposed, and used, along with the evidence needed to demonstrate compliance.

Harness Agents

Today, we're launching Autonomous Worker Agents, AI agents that run as governed pipeline steps inside Harness. They inherit OPA policies, RBAC, audit trails, and scoped credentials from the first run. And because they live inside your Harness pipelines, they reason using the Harness Knowledge Graph: your services, deployments, incidents, and policies.