Harness AI DevOps Assistant uses AI to optimize workflows and track deployments, and can make recommendations on what improvements to make. It also helps with the creation of pipelines based on the company’s preferred tools, policies, and patterns. 

“Crafting pipelines can be challenging. You need to consider your core build and deployment activities, as well as best practices around security scans, testing, quality gates, and more. The new Harness AI DevOps Assistant will make creating great pipelines much easier,” the company wrote in a blog post. 

The AI Code Assistant offers intelligent code completion, functionality generation, code refactoring and debugging, interactive explanations of the code, semantic search, and pull request generation.

Then, to help test that code, the QA Assistant creates self-healing test suites and can enable 10x faster test creation, 70% less test maintenance, and 5x faster release cycles.

And finally, Harness AI Productivity Insights ties it all together by providing a way to measure and optimize the impact of the different AI Code Assistants. 

“These AI-powered tools are more than just productivity boosters—they are virtual expert collaborators embedded into every stage of the development process,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness. “By weaving AI deeper into the core of our platform, we’re enabling engineers to transcend routine tasks, focus on creativity, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in software delivery. This is the future of development: developers working hand-in-hand with AI to achieve more, faster, and with greater satisfaction.”

In addition to the AI solutions, the company also introduced a number of new or upgraded modules:

• Harness Database DevOps, which integrates databases changes into CI/CD pipelines to help simplify deployment and governance
• Harness Cloud Development Environments, which are pre-configured, remote, and secure cloud-based development environments
• Harness Supply Chain Security, which provides governance, risk management, and compliance across the software supply chain
• Harness Artifact Registry, which is an artifact management system that utilizes open source scanners (in beta soon)
• Harness Open Source, a delivery platform for coding, building, managing artifacts, and deploying software from a centralized environment. 

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By incorporating Split Software’s capabilities into its platform, Harness will be able to offer a software release platform where developers can not only release software, but run A/B tests and measure adoption of specific features. 

With the acquisition, Harness said it will deliver a feature management solution that combines core feature flagging capabilities, experimentation, feature flag workflows, governance, and the ability to
manage/archive stale feature flags. All of these capabilities will be integrated into the Harness
Software Delivery platform to help customers build, deploy, and release software while running
A/B tests to experiment and measure feature adoption, the company told SD Times.

Yet for all the advantages of feature experimentation, it has remained under-discussed and under-utilized widely in the software industry. “It’s an overlooked competitive advantage among companies looking to experiment often and iterate quickly,” said Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness. “Based on how fast digital-native players are innovating, I believe feature experimentation will soon be table stakes in the standard developer lifecycle as customers become more vocal about having their feedback and needs quickly incorporated.”

Bansal noted one thing that has held this technology back from being so widespread is that it has historically only been available in point solutions that are not integrated deeply into the developer tool
stack. “This is what makes our acquisition and integration with Split so unique—we’re unlocking a seamless, end-to-end experience for developers to work solely from a single platform,” Bansal said.

Bansal called Split “the obvious choice for us as an established feature management platform… The market demand for a solution that’s integrated directly into the Software Development Lifecycle is massive. The timing couldn’t be better for our two companies to come together to deliver tremendous value for our customers.”

Brian Bell, CEO of Split, added: “The moment of feature release is a critical touchpoint between the developer and user. Our mission at Split has been to give development teams the confidence to accelerate with control and the freedom to innovate with ease. To further this mission, I couldn’t think of a better partner than Harness. Harness is automating and integrating every stage of software development. Together, we will have the most comprehensive software delivery platform on the market.”

Harness indicated that Split will be rolled into the Harness brand once it is fully integrated into the company’s platform. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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“At Harness, we’re building the next generation of intelligent tools and automation to supercharge developer productivity and reduce developer toil,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness. “This funding enables our company to continue innovating at a record pace, transforming the software delivery lifecycle for today’s modern enterprises. Every year, developers waste more than $1 trillion by spending 40%+ of their time working on mundane, non-code-producing work. Our platform empowers software teams to achieve excellence in velocity, quality, efficiency, and governance.”

This investment comes on the heels of a groundbreaking FY2024, which included expanding our executive team with top-tier talent, achieving strong revenue growth, and significantly enhancing our platform. Key milestones include:

• Experienced rapid Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth, going from $1M to more than $100M over the past five years.

• Customers executed more than 44 million code deployments with the Harness platform in 2023, more than double the number of deployments completed in 2022.

• Broadened and evolved product offerings by adding 2,800+ new features and enhancements across the Harness platform.

• Introduced AIDA, a new generative AI assistant integrated directly into all aspects of the Software Delivery Lifecycle.

• Launched four new product modules: Code Repository, Internal Developer Portal, Infrastructure as Code Management, and Software Supply Chain Assurance. These new modules join the existing eight offerings to deliver a powerful, seamlessly integrated software delivery platform. Each module is a best-in-class offering that can be tailored to an organization’s specific use case and business needs.

• Added new enterprise customers, including Nike, NetApp, MorningStar, and Icelandair.

• Welcomed Carlos Delatorre as Chief Revenue Officer and Gleb Brichko as SVP of Marketing.

Visit www.harness.io to learn more.

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Armory’s CD platform is built on top of the open-source Spinnaker project, a multicloud continuous delivery platform that can accommodate high-velocity deployments. Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal told SD Times in an interview that the companies have a lot of competitive overlap but he said there is a synergy in bringing the two teams together to innovate further, adding that “we are excited to bring those people into the Harness fold.”

Secondly, he said, Harness wants to deliver to Armory’s customers a continuation of a world-class deployment and continuous delivery platform, as well as offering a path to migrate to a next-generation platform like Harness.

Bansal noted that the Armory product line will stay “mostly independent,” but Harness will “selectively cherry-pick pieces from the Armory code and technology that are interesting and we’ll add those technologies in those areas to the Harness CD platform.’

Harness, Bansal said, has been expanding heavily into a broad platform for DevOps, adding feature flags, cloud cost management, chaos engineering, and engineering insights. “We see a lot of this kind of convergence happening in the DevOps industry, with integrated broad platforms like ours emerging,” he said. 

In November, Armory announced that its Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service capabilities extend to AWS Lambda, simplifying the serverless deployment landscape. “Serverless had promise but hit a wall, and Kubernetes took over,” Adam Frank, Armory’s CMO, told SD Times at the time. “Now we’re seeing a resurgence in serverless.”

Armory, he said, also has been working to empower platform engineers to make developers’ lives easier. “We’re seeing a shift down,” he said, noting how organizations are moving toward creating internal developer platforms that integrate development life cycle tools such as CD.

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According to Harness,  conventional AI tools mainly concentrate on helping with code development, while AIDA enhances the entire process of software development, encompassing activities such as building and testing code, securing the software, guaranteeing reliability, implementing changes, and cost optimization. 

This AI assistant is accessible to all Harness clients at no extra cost and will be smoothly incorporated into all aspects of the Harness platform. These aspects include CI/CD, managing cloud-related expenses, and feature toggles.

“Harness’s goal has always been to break down barriers in software delivery. With the launch of AIDA, we’re not just talking about a future where AI significantly enhances the SDLC—we’re making it a reality,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness. “I firmly believe that this is just the beginning, and I’m incredibly proud of our team’s relentless efforts to drive this change. We’re committed to harnessing the potential of generative AI to address real-world developer challenges across the entire lifecycle of code.”

AIDA includes three features specifically designed to address major challenges in the SDLC: 

• Assisted Resolution of Builds and Deployment Failures scans log files and links error messages to identified problems. This feature allows developers to diagnose and fix deployment issues rapidly, eliminating the need to manually search through massive amounts of log data. AIDA can also recommend solutions and foresee potential errors in the code before the build process even starts. This functionality is designed to work with Harness’s Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment services.

• Automated Security Vulnerability Fixing independently detects security weaknesses and produces necessary code adjustments. Its training includes all publicly recognized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs). AIDA considerably speeds up the process of fixing these vulnerabilities, reducing the workload for developers by 50-75%. It is intended to integrate flawlessly with the Harness Security Testing Orchestration module.

• Manage Cloud Assets Using Natural Language to define policies for governing cloud assets and costs, automating a typically complex process.

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The Harness CET provides several advantages to developers, such as minimizing the occurrence of defects that go undetected, removing the need for manual troubleshooting, and enabling quicker resolution of customer problems. This enables teams to identify and resolve issues within a matter of minutes instead of weeks, resulting in enhanced satisfaction for both the developers and end-users.

“Our goal is to empower developers by providing a solution that addresses the pain points unmet by traditional error tracking and observability tools,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness. “Harness Continuous Error Tracking offers unparalleled visibility and context, enabling teams to quickly identify, diagnose, and resolve issues, ultimately ensuring a better experience for both developers and customers.”

The tool includes runtime code analysis that provides complete visibility into every exception’s source code, variables, and environment state. These issues are routed directly to the right developer for faster resolution. CET also provides the full context of errors including code variables and objects up to ten levels deep into the heap.

CET creates guardrails to ensure only high-quality code advances which prevents unreliable releases from being promoted to staging and production environments.

In addition, release stability allows developers to compare current or past releases to understand trends in new, critical, and resurfaced errors.

The tool integrates with monitoring solutions such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk. It also natively integrates into Harness build and deployment pipelines or it can be used as a standalone solution.

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“Integrating Harness and Jira Software through Harness CI and Feature Flags provide users what they need most today: a consolidated view of issues across different environments in the development lifecycle,” said Richard O’Connell, head of partner growth at Atlassian. “From the creation of a Jira ticket to the deployment in different environments, all users – from project managers to non-technical users – are able to understand and digest the latest deployment information, without the need to navigate to another tool.”

Harness CI dramatically reduces pipeline execution time by automatically caching well-known directories for Java & Node.js. It is also available in hybrid and fully self-managed offerings for organizations with highly specific regulatory and implementation requirements.

The solution is built off of Drone, an open-source continuous integration solution and it uses containers to drop pre-configured steps into pipelines to add popular plugins or custom ones.

Harness Feature Flags simplified release management and workflows while creating visibility into how changes are being rolled out to customers all within Jira. Users can see which feature flag controls a change, whether the change has been released to users, and what percentage of users getting access to it. 

The new integrations are now available in the Atlassian Marketplace. 

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Although DevSecOps gets rid of many late-stage security concerns, it also forces developers to balance quality and speed at which to deliver features. Running multiple security scanners, processing large amounts of disparate data, and identifying, prioritizing, and remediating security vulnerabilities often slows down release velocity, according to Harness.

The Harness STO module is fully integrated into the Harness Software Delivery Platform to deliver secure applications at high velocity. The tool automates the scanning, analysis, and prioritization that slows down the engineering team. 

Harness processes the output of scanners to make it easy for engineers to remediate and allows for both high application security and high delivery velocity. The tool integrates with open source and commercial security scanners and can be used with Harness CI/CD and other CI/CD tooling.

“As more organizations adopt a cloud-native approach, they must take steps to secure their SDLC. With Harness STO, entire organizations can embrace the DevSecOps approach without requiring developers to become security experts or slowing down deployments. Harness STO makes security a team sport by infusing security into all aspects of the SDLC,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and founder of Harness.

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This release brings developers the ability to code and test service with Telepresence, deploy canary releases with Argo, and run production apps with Emissary-ingress. It is available now and free to use for one Kubernetes namespace, and additional namespaces can be achieved for $5 a month. 

“We built Ambassador Cloud to help developers do what they want to do most, which is write great code,” said Richard Li, founder and CEO at Ambassador Labs. “The power of Kubernetes and the tools ecosystem to manage it adds a lot of complexity to the development process. Ambassador Cloud directly addresses the learning curve for developers to master this complexity with ease, allowing them to use their existing tools to simplify how they code, test, ship, and run their Kubernetes workflows from a single pane of glass and with just a few clicks.

Harness announces enterprise Harness GitOps

Harness GitOps enables enterprise continuous delivery workflows for application and infrastructure deployments. With this, teams gain a declarative solution built with enterprise security, governance, and scale. 

Any developer currently working with GitOps workflows can now use important software delivery tools such as continuous integration, feature flags, cost control, deployment verification, drift detection, application sync, and cluster reconciliation. Additionally, this release allows for enterprise features including Open Policy Agent-based governance in order to meet security requirements. 

Ahana unveils new security capabilities 

These new security features have been added to the Ahana Cloud for Presto managed service and include multi-user support for Presto and Ahana, fine grained access control for data lakes with deep Apache Ranger integration, and audit support for all access. These new capabilities come in addition to the one-click integration with AWS Lake Formation.

Notable new features include: 

• Multi-user support for Presto: Data platform admins can manage users without complex authentication files as well as add and remove users for their Presto clusters 
• Apache Ranger support: The open-source plugin allows users to enable authorization in Ahana-managed Presto with Apache Ranger for the Hive Metastore or Glue Catalog queries 
• Audit support: Customers can enable centralized auditing of user access to Ahana-managed Presto clusters for comprehensive visibility

AdaCore launches GNAT Dynamic Analysis Suite

Provider of software development and verification tools AdaCore recently launched a bundle of analysis, testing, verification, and code coverage technologies, GNAT Dynamic Analysis Suite. This is intended to help Ada developers build safe and secure software as well as meet security and quality procedures.

Benefits of this release include the GNATtest automated test- harness generator for Ada; the GNATcoverage tool for analyzing and reporting Ada and C program coverage; sound analysis, test, and verification evidence; and early access to emerging cybersecurity technologies. 

“From decades of experience helping customers build critical software systems, we know that the most successful workflows incorporate multiple approaches to testing,” said Arnaud Charlet, lead of product engineering at AdaCore. “Our new GNAT Dynamic Analysis Suite does just that, integrating in one package our code coverage and unit testing tools, as well as emerging technologies, like fuzz testing, which is on the near-term roadmap.”

Radware extends its cloud application security 

With this extension, Radware has added fully automated API discovery capabilities. This, combined with newly automated security policy optimization, come as a part of the integrated   Application–Protection–as–a–Service solution, which features cloud-based web application firewall, bot management, API security, and DDoS protection. 

“Many organizations are facing a knowledge gap on how to protect their APIs or incorrectly assume an API gateway can provide comprehensive protection. Frequent application changes and faster release cycles are only making this difficult situation worse,” said Gabi Malka, Radware’s chief operations officer and head of products and services. “With our frictionless technology, we take human intervention and error out of the security equation. By automatically discovering undocumented APIs and applying a tailored security policy, we can accurately and effectively protect those APIs and keep them up to date.”

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According to the company, Harness uses machine learning to determine deployment quality and can automatically roll back failed deployments. It can automate canary verifications, prioritize tests, determine the impact of changes, automate cloud costs, and more. 

Developers can now use Harness CI/CD to deliver applications without a license or fee.

“We opened our source code and product roadmaps to the community to simplify adoption for teams that want a globally adopted and category-leading CD platform, one with AI-powered intelligence that automates deployments and rollbacks so they can get back their nights and weekends,” said Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of Harness.

The Harness CD Community Edition joins Harness CI Community Edition (formerly known as Drone Open Source), the open source, cloud-native CI solution available under the Apache 2.0 license.

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