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# Continuous Delivery & GitOps

Explore planned Continuous Delivery and GitOps capabilities and enhancements.

This page tracks planned capabilities and enhancements for Continuous Delivery and GitOps.

### Now

Q3 2026, Aug 2026 - Oct 2026

<table data-column-title-hidden data-view="cards" data-search="true"><thead><tr><th>Tag<select multiple><option value="deployment" label="Deployment" color="blue"></option><option value="continuous-verification" label="Continuous Verification" color="blue"></option><option value="gitops" label="GitOps" color="blue"></option><option value="pipeline" label="Pipeline" color="blue"></option><option value="opa" label="OPA" color="blue"></option><option value="release-orchestration" label="Release Orchestration" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Title</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Native AI Agent Deployment</strong></td><td>Deploy AI agents natively to Google Agent Runtime and AWS Agent Core, with Evals available as a built-in pipeline step. Includes automatic Gateway provisioning for AWS Agent Core deployments and Agent Identity support for both Google and AWS agent platforms.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Kubernetes Cluster Observability Dashboard</strong></td><td>Users can visualize and monitor Kubernetes cluster resources with a Lens-like observability tool, providing real-time insights into cluster health, resource utilization, and deployment status.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment, </span><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>Applications in Harness CD</strong></td><td>Users get an application view in Harness CD, created automatically from their existing services, environments, and deployment history.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Service Configuration Drift Detection and Reconciliation</strong></td><td>Users can detect and reconcile configuration drift between deployed services and their desired state, maintaining deployment consistency and preventing configuration mismatches across environments.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Pod Status and Logs in Pipeline Execution</strong></td><td>Users can see every Kubernetes pod created, updated, or deleted by a deployment, with its status and logs, in the pipeline execution view — during the rollout and after it completes.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Salesforce Org Maps</strong></td><td>Users can visualize relationships between Salesforce orgs, compare configuration diffs between connected orgs, select specific diffs to publish to a branch, and deploy the branch to target orgs for streamlined multi-org management.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>Change Advisor in Harness</strong></td><td>AI-powered risk assessment for changes that automatically generates risk scores, enables low-risk changes to proceed automatically, and flags high-risk changes for additional scrutiny to reduce downtime and increase release velocity.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>Visualization of GitOps Promotion Flows</strong></td><td>Users can view deployment status of GitOps applications across multiple environments, directly within Harness CD and GitOps, through Release Orchestration, providing enhanced visibility into promotion workflows and deployment steps.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>GitOps Promotion Steps</strong></td><td>Users can implement GitOps promotion workflows using pre-built promotion steps, reducing configuration effort and standardizing progressive delivery patterns across environments.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>Migration of GitOps Applications Between Agents</strong></td><td>Users can rebalance and migrate GitOps applications from one agent to another, enabling better load distribution and agent maintenance without disrupting deployments.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="pipeline">Pipeline</span></td><td><strong>Conditional and Dependent Inputs in Runtime Forms</strong></td><td>Users can configure runtime input forms where fields are dynamically disabled or hidden based on variable selection, creating intelligent forms that adapt to user choices and reduce input errors.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="pipeline">Pipeline</span></td><td><strong>Nested Template Composition</strong></td><td>Users can insert stage templates within pipeline templates that themselves support step insertion, enabling modular pipeline architectures with Pipeline Template → Stage Template → Insert Steps composition.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>OPA Version Upgrade to Support Rego v1</strong></td><td>Users can leverage OPA Rego v1 language features and improvements, including enhanced performance, improved syntax, and better policy authoring capabilities.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>Orchestration Queue Rollout</strong></td><td>Users can manage release execution queues with prioritization, throttling, and coordination across multiple concurrent releases for better resource management.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>Fine-Grained Role-Based Permissions</strong></td><td>Users can configure granular role-based access controls for Release Orchestration entities, enabling precise permission management at entity level for improved security and governance.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>OPA Policy Support for Release Orchestration</strong></td><td>Users can enforce OPA policies on Release Orchestration workflows, changesets, and processes, ensuring governance and compliance throughout the release lifecycle.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>Dependency Management in Changesets</strong></td><td>Users can define and manage dependencies between changesets, ensuring correct execution order and preventing conflicts in release workflows.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>Artifact Tracking and Changesets</strong></td><td>Users can automatically track container images produced by build pipelines and compute changesets between versions — including commit diffs and linked Jira or ServiceNow tickets — giving full traceability into what changed across each release.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Next

Q4 2026, Nov 2026 - Jan 2027

<table data-column-title-hidden data-view="cards" data-search="true"><thead><tr><th>Tag<select multiple><option value="gitops" label="GitOps" color="blue"></option><option value="deployment" label="Deployment" color="blue"></option><option value="continuous-verification" label="Continuous Verification" color="blue"></option><option value="opa" label="OPA" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Title</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>Hosted GitOps</strong></td><td>Users can leverage fully hosted GitOps agents managed by Harness, eliminating the need for self-managed agent infrastructure.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>AI Powered Imports of Applications</strong></td><td>Use the power of AI to create and assign related resources to GitOps Applications as they are imported.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>GitX Integration</strong></td><td>Users can integrate GitX with Continuous Verification (CV) for Git-based verification configuration management.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>AI Agent Based Continuous Verification</strong></td><td>Users can utilize AI agents for intelligent continuous verification of deployments with adaptive learning.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>Support for AWS CloudWatch Logs</strong></td><td>Users can configure AWS CloudWatch logs as a health source for continuous verification and log-based anomaly detection.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>OIDC Support</strong></td><td>Users can enable OIDC authentication for continuous verification health sources, improving security and access management.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>Prometheus Default Health Source for Continuous Verification</strong></td><td>Users can deploy with continuous verification using Prometheus as a built-in default health source without additional configuration.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>Continuous Verification Support for Traffic Shifting Offerings</strong></td><td>Users can use verify step with Harness deployment workflows that use traffic shifting strategies like canary and blue-green.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>Template Verification</strong></td><td>Users can validate and enforce OPA policies for templates, ensuring governance at the template level.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>Support for Runtime Contexts</strong></td><td>Users can create and enforce OPA policies that adapt to runtime contexts and dynamic conditions.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>Improve OPA Onboarding Wizard</strong></td><td>Users can leverage OPA onboarding wizard to simplify policy creation, configuration, and enforcement.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Later

Q1 2027 and beyond

<table data-column-title-hidden data-view="cards" data-search="true"><thead><tr><th>Tag<select multiple><option value="deployment" label="Deployment" color="blue"></option><option value="gitops" label="GitOps" color="blue"></option><option value="continuous-verification" label="Continuous Verification" color="blue"></option><option value="release-orchestration" label="Release Orchestration" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Title</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Advanced Deployment Strategies</strong></td><td>Extended support for sophisticated deployment patterns including progressive delivery, shadow deployments, and multi-region orchestration.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>GitOps Advanced Automation</strong></td><td>Further automation capabilities for GitOps workflows including intelligent drift detection, auto-remediation, and predictive scaling.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>Advanced AI-Driven Verification</strong></td><td>Next-generation AI capabilities for continuous verification including predictive anomaly detection and automated root cause analysis.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>Multi-Cloud Orchestration Enhancements</strong></td><td>Enhanced capabilities for orchestrating deployments across multiple cloud providers with unified policies and governance.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Release

Q2 2026 and earlier

<table data-column-title-hidden data-view="cards" data-search="true"><thead><tr><th>Tag<select multiple><option value="deployment" label="Deployment" color="blue"></option><option value="continuous-verification" label="Continuous Verification" color="blue"></option><option value="gitops" label="GitOps" color="blue"></option><option value="opa" label="OPA" color="blue"></option><option value="release-orchestration" label="Release Orchestration" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Title</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Native Progressive Rollout Strategy with Percentage-Based Deployment Control</strong></td><td>Users can deploy new application versions incrementally using percentage-based phasing (e.g., 10% → 25% → 50% → 100%) with manual or automated verification gates between phases, progressively replacing existing pods without doubling infrastructure resources.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Cloud Delegate Based Salesforce Deployments</strong></td><td>Users can deploy Salesforce releases using cloud delegates, eliminating the need for self-hosted delegate infrastructure while maintaining full deployment capabilities.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Preconfigured Package.xmls for Salesforce Deployments</strong></td><td>Users can use out-of-the-box package.xml templates for common Salesforce deployment scenarios, eliminating the need to manually configure package files for each deployment type.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="deployment">Deployment</span></td><td><strong>Native Agent Deployment Support</strong></td><td>Users can deploy AI agents natively within Harness CD pipelines, enabling intelligent automation and decision-making throughout the deployment lifecycle.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>Git Experience Support for Monitored Services</strong></td><td>Users can manage Monitored Services through Git, enabling Git-based change management, version control, and approval workflows for CV configurations.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="continuous-verification">Continuous Verification</span></td><td><strong>AI Verify V2</strong></td><td>AI Verify reaches full feature parity with traditional verification, bringing AI-powered deployment verification to all supported health sources and deployment types.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>GitOps Integration with Argo Projects</strong></td><td>Full CRUD and import support for ArgoCD App Projects in Harness, including UI for managing project settings such as repository access, cluster access, sync windows, and orphaned resources.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>Allow Harness Secrets in GitOps Applications</strong></td><td>Users can securely reference and use Harness secrets within GitOps application manifests and configurations, integrating with Harness secret management.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="gitops">GitOps</span></td><td><strong>AI Supported Remediation</strong></td><td>Users can leverage AI-powered recommendations to remediate GitOps deployment issues and failures with intelligent suggestions.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>OPA Data on Dashboard</strong></td><td>Users can view comprehensive OPA policy analytics on a dedicated dashboard, including policy violations and warnings over time, user triggers, policy names and severity, associated pipelines, and filtering capabilities.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>OPA GitX Consistency for Git-Backed Entities</strong></td><td>Users can ensure OPA policies are enforced on Git-backed entities even when changes are made directly to Git branches, preventing policy bypass scenarios.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="opa">OPA</span></td><td><strong>Rego Editor Validation and Testing</strong></td><td>Users can validate and test Rego policies directly within the Policy testing screen with syntax highlighting, indentation error detection, and inline validation without external tools.</td></tr><tr><td><span data-option="release-orchestration">Release Orchestration</span></td><td><strong>Queue Activity Support</strong></td><td>Users can consolidate execution of pipelines, finalize outputs, and execute processes based on approved queued outputs for better control over release workflows.</td></tr></tbody></table>
