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Date Published
Author
Krishika Singh
Word count
1083
Language
English
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None

Summary

Harness pipelines offer comprehensive failure handling mechanisms to enhance the resilience and stability of software deployment processes. By enabling configuration of failure strategies at various levels—such as stage, step, and step group—teams can effectively address deployment failures, infrastructure issues, and human errors. Features like failure rollback and post-deployment rollback allow for quick recovery from errors, reverting systems to the last known good state to minimize downtime and user impact. Additionally, marking stages or pipelines as failed facilitates immediate intervention and resource cleanup. These strategies not only ensure continuous improvement and system reliability but also foster resilience in software development and operations by transforming failures into learning opportunities.