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Harness CD is a modern self-service continuous delivery solution that allows developers to deploy, verify and automatically rollback Kubernetes and other cloud-native applications on any public or private cloud infrastructure of their choice.

• What is Harness CD Community Edition?
• Get Started with Harness CD Community Edition
• Get Started with Harness CD SaaS Plans
• Docs
• Need Help?
• Contributing
• Licensing
• Comparison with Other CD Tools
• See Also

What is Harness CD Community Edition?

Harness CD Community Edition is a free and open edition of Harness CD that is designed for developers to deploy cloud-native services at the fastest velocity possible. Developers can self-host this edition on Docker or Kubernetes using a docker-compose.yml or a helm-chart respectively. This harness-cd-community repo houses these docker-compose and helm installers for Harness CD Community Edition while the harness-core and other public repos in this harness organization house the source code.

Harness CD is also available as a fully-managed SaaS solution in three different plans, namely Free, Team and Enterprise. For more details, see the Harness CD Editions & Plans page.

Get Started with Harness CD Community Edition

1. Install Harness CD Community Edition: using docker-compose or using helm chart.
2. Create a Kubernetes CD pipeline and deploy a sample nginx microservice into your local minikube or external Kubernetes cluster.
3. Explore core features, such as canary rollout, automated infrastructure/Terraform provisioning, pipeline-as-code, Git Experience and built-in approvals.

Get Started with Harness CD SaaS Plans

We can run Harness CD for you, so you don't have to host and manage your own instance. All you have to do is signup at harness.io.

Docs

For additional guidance on installation, usage, and administration, see our User Documentation.

Need Help?

• Harness Community Slack - Join the #cd-community slack channel to connect with our engineers and other users running Harness CD.
• Harness Community Forum - Ask questions, find answers, and help other users.
• Troubleshooting documentation - Learn how to troubleshoot common errors.
• For filing bugs, suggesting improvements, or requesting new features, help us out by opening an issue.

Contributing

We welcome your contributions! We will soon be publishing guidelines on how you can contribute to Harness CD.

Licensing

Harness CD Community Edition code is released under the source available PolyForm Shield 1.0.0 license. harness-core and other public repos in the harness organization contain code for the Harness CD Community Edition. These repos also have additional code that is licensed under PolyForm Free Trial license.

When contributing to a Harness CD feature, you can find the relevant license in the comments at the top of each file.

For more information, see the Harness Loves Open Source page.

Comparison with Other CD Tools

To see how key features of Harness CD stack up against other CD tools, check out Harness CD in Comparison.

See Also

• Technical Resources (by Harness engineers and customers!)
• Harness Software Delivery Platform Documentation
• The Harness Blog