Harness CI has introduced templates to the Harness Software Delivery Platform, aiming to streamline build and deployment processes by enabling consistent practices across teams, reducing onboarding time, and boosting developer productivity. These templates allow users to configure build steps and stages in their pipelines once and reuse them across different services and projects, adhering to the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle in software development. This approach maintains the autonomy of engineering teams while providing a consistent method for building and deploying services, thus easing pipeline maintenance and debugging efforts. Additionally, templates simplify onboarding for new teams and services by providing starter templates that reduce the learning curve. With templates, developers can focus more on building features and less on pipeline maintenance, as changes made to a template automatically update all associated pipelines. Future plans include expanding support for entire pipelines and infrastructure components, introducing versioning notifications, and implementing governance rules for template usage.