Armory v. Harness

When deciding between Armory and Harness, the biggest draw to Armory lives within our ability to provide a superior developer experience through Declarative Continuous Deployment that orchestrates deployments across multiple clusters and environments within one solution vs. several products pieced together that provide a primitive imperative experience and mixed declarative experiences.

Armory’s focus on deployment capabilities is one of its greatest strengths. It is designed to orchestrate the deployment process by automating deployment constraints and promotions. This removes manual steps that can often cause errors and delays in deployment while making it incredibly easy for the developer to get their code to production.

Additionally, Armory provides advanced progressive deployment strategies like blue/green and canary with automated carnary and impact analysis, at all stages of the deployment – not just production. This allows you to quickly deploy new versions of your software while ensuring it meets quality standards and doesn’t cause a customer-impacting outage.

With Armory, you can keep up with the latest and advancing deployment trends and ensure that your software remains secure and up-to-date, all with incredible uptime. Armory provides powerful deployment analytics that enables you to monitor deployment performance in real-time, keeping you informed of any potential problems or issues with your deployment process.

You can cut back on the manual nature of your deployments and speed up how quickly you can bring new innovations, like a “suggested for you” feature, to your customers.

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Harness is a broad DevOps platform that specializes in an imperative experience for each stage of a deployment pipeline. The experience is similar to open-source Spinnaker, while the GitOps-as-a-Service aka ArgoCD-as-a-Service module is based on open-source Argo. This allows Harness to integrate with users who already use Argo, but also falls prey to the same issues that face all Argo users around scalability and enforced complexities.

Because of the platform’s usage of Argo, there is a solution to these scalability and orchestration issues. Armory offers an opportunity for Argo users to declaratively (instead of imperatively with Harness) deploy using Argo Rollouts. Learn more about how Argo and Armory work together to achieve a declarative, effortlessly scalable DevOps experience: