Harness Solutions Factory 2.3 Overview

Harness Solutions Factory 2.3 introduces major advancements, including seamless upgrades to new versions, ability for distributed workspace management, and new golden template options. Here’s what’s new:

• Automatically manage new updates that are released by Harness via a PR process that you can merge when ready.
• Ability to have a distributed yet governed setup where each organization has its own Mini Factory but everything is still orchestrated and managed through the central Solutions Factory.
• Deploy the Factory Floor to any project for easy automation onboarding and/or workflow orchestration.

Upgrade to 2.3

If you have a version older than 2.2 go into IDP and remove all HSF workflows from IDP. You will need to do this because of IDP 2.0 changes we will need to reregister new workflows.

1. Go into the Solutions Factory project → Pipelines and run Mirror Harness Official Solutions Factory
2. Go into Solutions Factory project → IaCM Workspaces → Pilot Light
   • Go into Configuration → Change the OpenTofu version to at least 1.10.0 → Save Changes (because we restructured how things are deployed and need the ability to
   • Go into Connectors and Variables
     • Remove delegate_selectors as it is no longer used
     • Change the provider_version to match the version of OpenTofu that you set above
3. Run Manage Pilot Light
4. Run Manage Pilot Light again because the above run introduces a new step in the post configuration that is needed for the upgrade
5. Go into IaCM Workspaces → Harness Solutions Factory
   • Go into Configurations and add tags source:hsf_system and type:solutions-factory
   • Update the OpenTofu version to the same version that you set above
   • Modify Default Pipelines for all four pipelines to be Deploy Solutions Factory → Save Changes
   • Go into Connectors and Variables
     • Remove delegate_selectors , project_id , and organization_id and organizations these are no longer needed and should not be modified.
     • Change the provider_version to match the version of OpenTofu that was set
     • Verify these variables exist, if not add:

     Variable Key	Value
     hsf_pipeline_connector_ref	org.hsf_dockerhub_connector
     hsf_script_mgr_image	harnesssolutionfactory/harness-python-api-sdk:latest
     hsf_idp_resource_mgr_image	harnesssolutionfactory/harness-idp-resource-manager:latest
     hsf_iacm_manager_plugin	harnesssolutionfactory/harness-manage-iacm-workspace:latest
     enable_hsf_mini_factory	false

     1. Save Changes
6. Run Deploy Solutions Factory
7. If you’re doing an upgrade from pre 2.2 run Bulk Workspace IDP Registration
8. Run Register Official IDP Templates to get all the new templates from harness-template-library
9. The upgrade is now complete!