Supported CD features and integrations

This topic lists the supported CD features and integrations you can use in Harness for deploying and verifying your apps.

For a comprehensive list that includes all Harness modules, go to Supported platforms and technologies.

Deployment types

• Kubernetes
• Helm charts (v2 and v3)
• Native Helm
• Kustomize
• Azure Web Apps
• AWS ASG
• AWS ECS
• AWS Lambda
• Google Cloud Functions
• Serverless.com Framework (AWS Lambda)
• Tanzu Application Services
• Traditional
  • SSH
  • WinRM
• Spotinst
• Build (Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Custom deployments using Deployment Templates
• GitOps
• Local (Harness Community Edition)

Deployment types and environments

Kubernetes

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • Kubernetes connector
    • Username and password
    • Client key and secret
    • OIDC authentication
    • Kubernetes service account
    • Assume role binding on delegate configuration
  • Google Cloud connector (GKE authentication)
    • Service Account
    • Google Cloud Role on Delegate
    • Workload Identity
  • Azure Cloud Connector (AKS Authentication)
    • Subscription Id
    • Principal and Service Account
    • GovCloud Support
  • AWS Cloud Connector (EKS Authentication)
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • Self Hosted Kubernetes
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Azure Kubernetes Engine
  • AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service
  • Red Hat OpenShift
• Versions and tooling support:
  • Kubectl Client Versions:
    • 1.16
    • 1.27
    • We support what each of the Cloud Providers support. We recommend users to keep their binary versions up to date.
    • By default Harness ships with kubectl client - 1.24
  • Tooling:
    • OpenShift - oc client binary
    • Kustomize - kustomize binary
    • Helm - Helm 3.12 and 2.8 binary.
    • Helm 3.8 can be supported via feature flag.
• Limitations:
  • Helm:
    • Helm Hooks are not supported for this swimlane. Harness manages and orchestrates the manifests and their release.
    • Kustomize:
      • Kustomize Patches are only supported in YAML, not JSON
      • Kustomize Containerized Plugins are not supported
    • Harness managed resources:
      • Deployment
      • Secrets
      • ConfigMap
      • StatefulSet
      • HorizontalPodAutoScalar is coming soon.
      • PodDisruptionBudget is coming soon.
• Supported integrations:
  • Traffic Shifting for Advanced Deployment Strategies:
    • Istio
    • Nginx Ingress Controller
  • All manifest type sources for fetching Kubernetes resources:
    • Github
    • Gitlab
    • Bitbucket
    • Custom Remote Source Repository
    • Harness Local File Store
  • For Helm Chart Type Manifests we also support:
    • Generic Git Provider
    • Google Cloud Storage
    • Amazon S3 Storage
    • Helm OCI Repository (ACR, ECR, GAR, Artifactory)
    • Helm HTTP Server Repository (Nexus, Artifactory)
  • Artifact repository supported to deploy with manifest:
    • DockerHub
    • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    • Google Container Registry
    • Azure Container Registry
    • Custom Artifact Source
    • Google Artifact Registry
    • Github Package Registry
    • Nexus 3
    • Artifactory

Native Helm

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • Kubernetes Connector
    • Username + Password
    • Client Key and Secret
    • OIDC Authentication
    • Kubernetes Service Account
    • Assume Rolebinding on Delegate Configuration
  • Google Cloud Connector (GKE Authentication)
    • Service Account
    • Google Cloud Role on Delegate
    • Workload Identity
  • Azure Cloud Connector (AKS Authentication)
    • Subscription ID
    • Principal and Service Account
    • GovCloud Support
  • AWS Cloud Connector (EKS Authentication)
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • Self Hosted Kubernetes
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Azure Kubernetes Engine
  • AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service
  • Red Hat OpenShift
• Versions and tooling support:
  • Helm Client Versions: 2.8 - 3.8
  • We support what each of the Cloud Providers support, we recommend users to keep their binary versions up to date
  • By default Harness ships with helm client 2.8 and 3.12.
  • Tooling:
    • OpenShift - oc client binary
    • Kustomize - kustomize binary
    • Helm - Helm 3.12 & 2.8 binary. Helm 3.8 can be supported via feature flag.
• Limitations:
  • Helm 2 is deprecated so there is limited support for Helm 2.
  • Helm 3 is now the default for Harness Helm Chart Deployments.
  • Helm Plugins are not supported
  • Only Basic Deployment Strategy supported (No Canary or Blue-Green Support Out of the box)
• Supported integrations:
  • Manifest Sources for fetching Helm Chart:
    • Github
    • Gitlab
    • Bitbucket
    • Generic Git Provider
    • Custom Remote Source Repository
    • Google Cloud Storage
    • Amazon S3 Storage
    • Helm OCI Repository (ACR, ECR, GAR, Artifactory)
    • Helm HTTP Server Repository (Nexus, Artifactory)
    • Harness Local File Store
  • Artifact Repository for Container Images to deploy with Chart:
    • DockerHub
    • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    • Google Container Registry
    • Azure Container Registry
    • Custom Artifact Source
    • Google Artifact Registry
    • Github Package Registry
    • Nexus 3
    • Artifactory

Amazon ECS

• Supported connectors for deployment:
• AWS Cloud Connector
  • IRSA
  • Access Key and Secret Key
  • IAM Role
  • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud, any region
  • AWS - Launch Types:
    • Amazon ECS - EC2 - Generally Provisioned Instances
    • Amazon ECS - EC2 - Spot Backed Instances
    • Amazon ECS - Fargate
• Versions and tooling support:
  • AWS SDK
• Supported integrations:
  • ECS Service Discovery - Supported via Service Definition
  • ECS Circuit Breaker - Supported via Service Definition
  • Artifact Repository:
    • DockerHub
    • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    • Azure Container Registry
    • Custom Artifact Source
    • Github Package Registry
    • Nexus 3
    • Artifactory

Amazon AMI/ASG

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • AWS cloud connector
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS cloud, any region
• Versions and tooling support:
  • AWS SDK

AWS Lambda

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud Connector
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS cloud, any region
• Versions and tooling support:
  • AWS SDK
• Supported integrations:
  • Artifact Repository Supported to Deploy with Function Definition:
    • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    • Amazon S3

Traditional: WinRM

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud Connector
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
    • GovCloud Support
  • Azure Cloud Connector (AKS Authentication)
    • Subscription Id
    • Principal and Service Account
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud
  • Azure Cloud
  • Physical Datacenter

Traditional: SSH

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud Connector
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
    • GovCloud Support
  • Azure Cloud Connector (AKS Authentication)
    • Subscription Id
    • Principal and Service Account
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud
  • Azure Cloud
  • Physical Datacenter
• Limitations:
  • Google Compute Engine (Virtual Machine Targets)
    • Limited Support, Harness can connect to Google VMs via an SSH Key, not via Google Cloud Authentication
  • Linux SSH Setups
    • Ubuntu Version 22 is not supported. It is coming soon.
    • RHEL9 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) is not supported. It is coming soon.

Tanzu Application Service (formerly Pivotal Cloud Foundry)

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • Tanzu Connector
    • Endpoint URL, Username and Password
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • On Premise Cloud Foundry Installations
  • VMware Tanzu Platform
• Versions and tooling support:
  • Binary Versions:
    • CF CLI v6
    • CF CLI v7
    • CF CLI v8

Google Functions

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • Google Cloud Connector
  • Service Account
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • Google Cloud, any region
• Versions and tooling support:
  • Google SDK. Supported versions:
    • Google Functions Gen 1
    • Google Functions Gen 2
• Supported integrations:
  • Artifact Repository:
    • Google Cloud Storage
    • Google Source Repository (Gen 1 Only)

Spot Instances

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • Spot Connector
    • AccountID + API Token
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS cloud, any region
• Limitations:
  • Deployment Behavior:
    • Incremental Traffic Shifting for SpotInst Deployment is not supported
    • VM-based Deployments are supported via Elastigroup configuration

Serverless.com Framework

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • AWS Cloud Connector
    • IRSA
    • Access Key and Secret Key
    • IAM Role
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • AWS cloud, any region
• Versions and tooling support:
  • Supported Binary Versions:
    • serverless.com 1.x
    • serverless.com 2.x
    • serverless.com 3.x
• Limitations:
  • Deployment Behavior:
    • Harness only supports AWS Lambda Functions to be deployed via Serverless.com Framework
    • Harness builds and deploys Lambda Functions, users cannot split up the tasks to build functions and deploy functions separately natively via the swimlane
  • Not supported application types:
    • Google Functions
    • Azure Functions
  • Serverless.com 1.x (limited support). Not all capabilities supported.
  • Basic deployment supported. No out-of-the-box canary and blue green deployment supported.
• Supported integrations:
  • Serverless.com plugins:
    • Harness supports all the Serverless.com plugins. Please make sure they are compatible with the version of Serverless.com you are using.
  • Artifact Repository:
    • DockerHub
    • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    • Artifactory
    • Amazon S3

Azure WebApps

• Supported connectors for deployment:
  • Azure Cloud Connector (AKS Authentication)
    • Subscription Id
    • Principal and Service Account
    • GovCloud Support
• Supported platforms for deployment:
  • Azure cloud, any Region
• Versions and tooling support:
  • Azure SDK

Infrastructure provisioners

• Terraform
• Terragrunt
• Azure ARM and Blueprint
• AWS CloudFormation
• Shell script (custom)

CD pipeline controls

• Strategies: basic, rolling, canary, blue green, custom.
• Barriers
• Resource Constraints
• Queue steps
• Deployment freeze
• Failure strategies
• Conditional executions
• Looping strategies
• Triggers
• Input set and overlays

Manifests and file sources

• Harness File Store
• Git on any platform
• Github
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• AWS CodeCommit
• Azure Repos

Artifact sources

All artifact sources are covered in CD artifact sources.

• Docker registry on any platform
• Google Container Registry (GCR)
• Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
• Google Artifact Registry
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• Azure Container Registry (ACR)
• Nexus
• Artifactory
• Jenkins
• Bamboo
• Github packages
• HTTP Helm
• OCI Helm
• Custom artifact source

Cloud platforms

• Kubernetes (platform-agnostic)
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Physical Data Center
• Tanzu
• Spot

Ticketing and approval systems

• Jira (ticketing, approvals)
• ServiceNow (ticketing, approvals)
• Harness manual approvals

Continuous Verification sources for metrics/logs

• AppDynamics
• CloudWatch
• Custom Health Source
• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Elasticsearch
• Google Cloud Operations
• New Relic
• Prometheus
• Splunk
• Sumo Logic