March 2019 Summaries

Harness's integration into the AWS Marketplace allows customers to enhance their deployment processes with Continuous Delivery as-a-Service, significantly benefiting those running applications on AWS, such as Advanced, Linedata, and OpenBank. Harness supports a variety of AWS services, including Amazon Machine Image, Amazon ECS on EC2 and Fargate, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, and AWS CodeDeploy, and was the first to support AWS Lambda in 2017. It also facilitates artifact management through Amazon ECR and S3 and supports traditional application deployments on AWS EC2. Since 2018, Harness has incorporated AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform for dynamic cloud infrastructure provisioning. The platform offers diverse release strategies like blue/green, automated canary, and rolling deployments, and employs machine learning for automated verification and rollback using tools such as CloudWatch. Additionally, it supports AWS KMS for secrets management, providing extensive AWS application support across its customer base.

Harness utilizes a Connected-On-Premises model to deliver its software, which combines the speed of cloud updates with the security and control of on-premises deployments. This approach uses a Kubernetes-based architecture, where an agent called the Harness Ambassador manages updates within the customer's environment, ensuring that updates are frequent and secure without the need for customer data to leave the premises. By employing this model, Harness can push updates efficiently, reducing the complexity of maintaining older software versions and addressing compatibility issues. Customers benefit from this setup by enjoying the latest features at their own pace while maintaining high security standards, and Harness benefits from streamlined development cycles and simplified update processes.