Most organizations today are developing, deploying and managing their applications on some sort of cloud-based infrastructure.

While the many speed, efficiency, longevity and reliability advantages of the cloud are indisputable, some lingering issues around increasing cloud spend, wastage and compliance have been on the rise recently. Harness.io thinks it can solve these questions for companies.

“In order to reach continuous delivery, we have to automate everything, right? But that doesn’t mean stop at just delivering … to production,” said Nick Durkin (pictured), field chief technology officer and vice president of field engineering at Harness.io. “That means to the customer, which means we’re gonna make them happy. But then, ultimately, with all of those resources in dev, QA, staging and [user acceptance testing], we have to take care of those as well. And if we’re not being mindful of it, the costs are astronomical.”

Durkin spoke with John Furrier and David Nicholson, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. They discussed artificial intelligence and automation, as well as how to streamline the cloud deployment process for increased efficiency. (* Disclosure below.)

AI-driven lifecycle management

As companies exhaust their funding on cloud costs in a bid to get to market faster, there is a major need for providers like Harness.io to be brought in to assess factors like resource usage, compliance and security — down to the container level, driving them toward a continuous delivery state, according to Durkin.

“Throughout our entire platform, we’ve designed our AI to take care of the worst parts of anyone’s job. Ask any DevOps person if they love babysitting deployments; they don’t; Harness handles that for them. Ask your engineers if they love sitting there waiting for their tests to run every time they build,” Durkin stated.

It’s never is easy to predict what will happen next in the enterprise solutions world, but from Durkin’s years servicing customers through the SAP, IBM and AWS waves, he believes the companies that will stand the test of time are those that grow, evolve and expand into where the existing industry challenges are.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. (* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021. Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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