Harness Reviews

Harness really lowers the barrier to entry for engineers of all levels to engage, manage, and understand their delivery process. The GUI is very intuitive and offers several views to quickly visualize what's going on in either a map or console based view.

As a managed service, there's still flexibility and features missing that are easier to implement yourself if you are a pro in other CD tools. However over the past year they have done an amazing job incorporating feedback and adding in feature parity to either allow for or remove the need for custom tweaks.

We are a smaller company and need to empower our developers to engage and own the deployment process. Our DevOps team kicks things off and creates some basics and from their it's very easy for the feature teams to take ownership. Other free tools I've used in the past typically had a knowledge or experience barrier that was much higher which in turn discouraged this ownership.

We started using Harness after our initial deployment where we set up our own continuous delivery process with various open source projects. Our experience was that we ended up spending quite a bit of time troubleshooting and maintaining the infrastructure for continuous delivery instead of being able to focus our own application delivery process. Harness CD also provided a single pane glass for the CI/CD process which helps us standardize and simplify our deployment process and makes it much easier to onboard new team members. Harness support team is a pleasure to work with, and are knowledgeable and is a huge factor in the smooth operations of our continued CI/CD processes.

not much. a few nitty gritty UI issues but nothing major.

We had initially deployed various opensource solutions for our continuous delivery process, but as time went on, we discovered that we spent more and more time trying to keep the CD infrastructure up to date and troubleshooting the CD pipeline instead of focusing on the application. The piecemeal approach to CD pipeline also make it difficult to standardize on tools, and bring new devops team members up to speed. The single pane of glass approach, makes it easier to organize knowledge needed for the CD process and simplify the process. the multitude of harness integrations also simplify the migration process as we can slowly replace each of the legacy CD pipeline.

When we first started looking for a new Continuous Delivery product, we decided on Harness for three main reasons - first, it could accelerate our move to the cloud while still supporting our brownfield on-prem applications. Second, it was very secure, since all communication orginates at the delegate. Third, it allwoed us to move configuration out of the product UI and into our GitHub repo. It succeeds wonderfully on all counts.

We also got a very effective and helpful team to support our efforts from the vendor. They seem legitimately concerned about our success with the product and have helped us at alls tages of the implementation. It has been a breath of fresh air compared to other vendors we have worked with.

The product is great, the support team is great. I would give Harness a hearty recommendation for anyone consideering buying it.

Honestly there is not mcuh to dislike, here. The product is solid and well thought out. I guess if I had one complaint it is that in some cases features show up in the manager without us having much prep time, so more awareness of their roadmap would help, but in the cases where it has caused issues they have moved quickly to help resolve it, and some of that can be attributed to the fact that we bought SaaS instead of going with a slef-hosted solution for the Manager.

Deployments to mmulticloud infrastructure.

Developer self-service driving a huge reduction in support requests.

Faster deployment times with less overhead for developers and support staff.

Well-constructed RBAC model

Started using Harness as it looked great for Continuous Deployment where competitors had it as an afterthought. Now that it also includes Continuous Integration, it's a great tool for building and deploying code all in one place. Coupled with it's notifications to developers on failure and the ability to also run tests and monitor deployments, it has everything we need.

Pricing models have been slightly confusing however the team has always worked very closely on improving this area.

Being an early adopter, some features have occasionally broken however responses to support tickets is always very quick and escalation has been smooth where required.

Having built out a CD pipeline in a previous company using Jenkins, I know how hard it is to orchestrate various services deploying to various areas of your infrastructure. Harness comes with a lot of the complexity already built out behind the scenes. Example is you can simply define a Dockerfile and with some simple config, Harness can build an image and push to your respository with no requirement to host your own Docker build container environment. This has saved a lot of time and resources which we can better use in other areas.

An integrated suite of tools that answer CI, CD, Flags, Chaos, Security testing and other developer workflow concerns in one package.

As a business, we value our time, and Harness gives our engineers one pane of glass into these features, and provides me as the owner of the business insight into productivity, problems, delivery lead times and other considerations.

It's not much of a dislike - but as Harness grows, it takes a bit of time for some of the new features added to mature up to the same level as the original features, such as CI/CD - which is the backbone product. That said, even initial versions of features generally integrate with the wider pipeline.

Harness runs all of our CI/CD pipelines for the business, doing all our builds and releases for us. We also leverage some of the other features like feature flags, security testing orchestration to control and manage our platform.

The ease of setup and low maintenance. No more managing plugins or staring at eye gouging monolithic configs for pipelines.

Nothing at the moment. I sleep better at night because of it.

Harness has save us so much time as well has made the developers so much more self service 10/10 would use again.

We are a small team and dedicating any members for any period of time to troubleshooting the myriad of potential issues with Jenkins was impacting the velocity of our teams goals.

The support team is awesome. They helps us to have better practices and helps us to migrate our current services to containers.

Sometimes, some features don't work as expected. But if we create a support ticket, they help us very efficiently.

Explore their documentation. Harness continuously improves its documentation and creates new features, so keep in sync with their docs and with Harness University.

Continous delivery standarization.

Harness has made it very easy for us to accelerate our deployment cadence. We had our dev environments up in almost no time, and were easily able to leverage canary deployments which have already prevented a few botched deploys. If we need to tweak a service or workflow, its super easy to rerun a deployment with the new config.

Overall its an awesome product, only real problems I've experienced were intermittent issues with the UI, refresh has generally fixed this.

Faster (and trackable) deployment times. Change/Failure wasn't a thing we had insight into before. We've literally taken an hour long build / deploy process and cut it back to about 20 minutes to deploy several services

I love how Harness makes things as easy as possible for everyone in an organization to get on board with Continuous Delivery, whether it be developers, ops engineers, or release managers. Getting people on the platform and using Harness has been a very smooth process for us. The monitoring and continuous verification of deployments is a very cool feature as well.

The UI could be a bit clunky to go through at first, but once you get used to the layout it's not really a problem.

A lot of our deployments are manual, and Harness solves that by not only letting us do Continuous Delivery in an automated fashion but making it very easy for all teams in our organization.

Innovation, automation, AI and seek to improveness.

Not at all; we are satisfied with Harness.

We`re improving our cicd process with inteligence and more automation.