Harness Inc.’s continuous software delivery tools became a lot more useful today as the company announced new integrations with the three major cloud infrastructure providers that it says will make multicloud software deployment much easier than before.

Harness is the creator of a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform that relies on machine learning algorithms to monitor new software releases in case they create problems. The service makes it easier for developers to understand what’s happening in an application’s baseline environment, and if a new update starts acting up, they can initiate an automatic rollback to the previous version of that app.

It’s a useful tool for developers that use the continuous integration and continuous delivery approach to software development. CI/CD, as it’s known, involves releasing small code updates on a frequent basis, perhaps once a day or even more often, instead of introducing major updates maybe once or twice a year. The benefits of the CI/CD approach include rolling out new features more often and saving developers time by enabling them to fix any bugs that show up more quickly.

But though the goal is to boost productivity, CI/CD comes with its own set of time sinks, which is what Harness is helping its customers overcome. Implementing CI/CD workflows normally requires cobbling together multiple development automation tools into complex toolchains and writing scripts to manage software releases. Harness’ value proposition is that it replaces such custom toolchains with a single platform designed to be easier to set up and use.

The good news is that Harness now works with more cloud platforms. The company said its platform, which already supported Amazon ECS, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon CodeDeploy and Amazon Lambda, now works with the Amazon GovCloud offering too, meaning developers will be able to deploy and monitor their apps in Amazon’s secure government cloud environment for the first time.

In addition, Harness said it’s adding support for Microsoft Azure native deployments and cloud bill analysis, providing new capabilities for those who run its platform on the Azure cloud. For example, Harness now assists with Azure’s serverless technologies and provides Arm support with blueprints, management and resource groups. Customers will also have better visibility into their Azure cloud costs, Harness said.

Finally, the company said it now supports the deployment of native Google Cloud applications and integrates with services such as Google Secrets Manager, Google Key Management Service, Google Cloud Storage, Google Container Registry, Stackdriver, GCP Workload Identity and Google Cloud Build.

Harness co-founder and Chief Executive Jyoti Bansal said the expanded integrations will make it easier for customers to consolidate all of their build, deploy, verify and cost management processes into a single streamlined platform without any of the complexity that’s usually involved with multicloud application deployments.

“As more enterprises look to do more with their software and reduce infrastructure costs, they’re turning to multicloud architectures to improve uptime, avoid vendor lock-in and gain price leverage,” Bansal said. “With these integrations, Harness is answering that call, providing an abstraction layer between cloud deployment complexity and developers, so every company can deliver next-generation software faster than ever.”

Constellation Research Inc. analyst Holger Mueller told SiliconANGLE that today’s updates bring Harness closer to its goal of enabling enterprises to do software creation and application deployment across multiple cloud infrastructures.

“There is a big opportunity for independent vendors to deliver an infinite computing platform that allows enterprises to develop software assets, deploy them where they need them and operate them as they’d like, while avoiding cloud lock-in,” Mueller said.

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