Harness Reviews

Name: Harness
Brand: Harness
Rating: 3.9 (4 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

4 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Harness?

Harness offers a comprehensive toolset for automating deployment processes and enhancing software update efficiency. It's lauded for its CI/CD capabilities, feature flagging, and real-time deployment monitoring. Key features include an intuitive UI, secret management, and robust rollback functionalities, all contributing to improved productivity and reduced errors in DevOps environments.

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Harness is the #10 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions, #15 ranked solution in top Cloud Cost Management solutions, and #31 ranked solution in AST tools. PeerSpot users give Harness an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Harness is most commonly compared to GitLab: Harness vs GitLab. Harness is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 75% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 34% of all views.

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April 2025

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Featured Harness reviews

Linwei Yuan

Software Engineer at Citi

Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place. It is very convenient since we have many microservices, so having one platform for all of them is beneficial. The dashboard allows me to monitor all core services' deployment status in one place, making it easier to find bugs and check logs.

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Misbah Mohammed Kollathodi

Engineering Technical Leader - SRE (Cloud/Kubernetes-Security) at Cisco

The platform's initial setup process could be simplified. Additionally, security features and capabilities for understanding vulnerabilities within the application could be enhanced directly from the tool. There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex. Limitations regarding reconciliation features and support for certain parts of the infrastructure should also be addressed.

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NaveenKumar40

DevOps Enginee at LTIMindtree

We use Harness as a deployment tool. It allows us to define environments like OpenShift or Kubernetes or Linux servers. It automates the pipeline system where users can trigger with the master branch. We use Tekton to run without any manual interaction. Once the build is done, it stores artifacts…

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Harness mindshare

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As of May 2025, the mindshare of Harness in the Build Automation category stands at 7.0%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Apr 28, 2025

Valuable Features

"The features of Harness are valuable, supporting rolling deployments, basic deployments, and blue-green deployments with zero downtime."
"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place, making it convenient."
"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place."

Room for Improvement

"When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur. Improvements are needed when deploying one component to one environment."
"When integrating Harness with more than twenty applications in one place, it becomes less stable, causing improvements to be necessary."
"I prefer the previous less compact UI version of Harness, which showed more details on the screen."

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