Harness Pipelines Integration

Harness IR provides native integration with Harness Pipelines, enabling automated remediation actions and deployment control directly from your incident response workflows.

Overview

Harness Pipelines integration:

• Requires no additional authentication setup
• Uses your existing Harness permissions and access controls
• Provides seamless access to pipeline operations

Permissions

The Harness Pipelines integration leverages your existing Harness permissions model:

• Access to pipelines is controlled by standard Harness user permissions
• Pipeline operations respect existing role-based access controls (RBAC)
• No additional API keys or credentials needed

Common Use Cases

1. Automated Remediation
   • Trigger rollback pipelines
   • Scale services up/down
   • Deploy hotfixes
2. Deployment Control
   • Pause active deployments
   • Cancel problematic pipelines
   • Resume deployments after incident resolution

Example Configuration

name: "Production Deployment Control"
conditions:
  severity: P1
  service: [service_name]
actions:
  trigger_pipeline:
    name: "Emergency Rollback"
    variables:
      service: [incident.service]
      environment: production

Best Practices

1. Pipeline Selection

   • Use dedicated remediation pipelines
   • Create incident-specific pipeline templates
   • Test pipelines in non-production environments

2. Permission Management

   • Review pipeline access permissions regularly
   • Use service accounts for automated operations
   • Maintain audit logs of pipeline triggers

3. Integration Usage

   • Document remediation workflows
   • Monitor pipeline execution success
   • Track effectiveness of automated responses