Harness unveils IaCM updates to boost efficiency & reusability
Harness has announced the release of new features for its Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) product aimed at enhancing reusability, consistency, and speed across enterprise-scale infrastructure.
The company has introduced Module Registry and Workspace Templates as part of its IaCM solution, developed to allow organisations to define infrastructure once and reuse it across different environments. These features aim to help platform and DevOps teams scale automation while maintaining governance and operational efficiency.
Enterprise standardisation
Harness IaCM is designed to streamline cloud infrastructure provisioning using policy-aware pipelines, automated governance, and developer self-service. The platform allows teams to implement flexible and standardised workflows, helping to reduce risk by enforcing best practices automatically and boosting productivity without sacrificing oversight. The new Module Registry and Workspace Templates are expected to further aid in achieving consistency and efficiency for enterprises.
"As delivery cycles speed up, the gap between development and infrastructure has become a real blocker for teams," says Martin Reynolds, Field CTO at Harness. "With these new capabilities, Harness is giving platform teams a better model – one where infrastructure patterns are centrally defined, rigorously tested, and reused across environments with complete control. It's a major unlock for velocity, governance, and scale."
Tackling reusability challenges
Organisations, especially those operating in regulated sectors such as finance and healthcare, face ongoing pressure to accelerate cloud delivery while ensuring compliance. Traditional Infrastructure as Code tools can often slow down infrastructure teams due to issues including configuration drift and rework, largely attributed to insufficient reusability.
Harness has addressed this challenge with its new Module Registry feature, which enables teams to create, manage, and reuse approved templates of infrastructure components stored centrally. These modules are discoverable and governed, streamlining code reuse and reducing the risk of misconfiguration.
Early users of the Module Registry have reportedly observed significant improvements in their workflows.
"The new Module Registry is exactly what we need to scale our infrastructure standards across teams," said John Maynard, Director of Platform Engineering at PlayQ. "Harness IaCM has already helped us cut provisioning times dramatically – what used to take hours in Terraform Cloud now takes minutes – and with Module Registry, we can drive even more consistency and efficiency."
Alongside Module Registry, the introduction of Workspace Templates enables teams to predefine variables, configuration settings, and policies in reusable templates for creating new infrastructure workspaces. The company believes this can streamline onboarding, reduce manual errors, and ensure projects begin with approved configurations.
Impact and adoption
Since its general availability, Harness IaCM has reportedly seen adoption by several large enterprise customers, including deals in excess of $1 million. In one reported instance, a global bank scaled its operations to over 4,000 workspaces within six months through the use of reusable modules and templates. Meanwhile, a healthcare company has shifted to delivering all infrastructure modules with pre-configured tests to improve reliability. Across its beta user base, organisations are seeing an average of over ten workspaces per template, evidencing achieved standardisation and reuse.
The product's support for open-source communities, including contributions to OpenTofu, reflects an ongoing commitment to vendor-neutral, community-driven Infrastructure as Code initiatives.
Future developments
Harness has shared areas of continued development for the IaCM product. These include broader support for additional tools such as Ansible and Terragrunt, allowing consolidation of provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes within the Harness pipeline. The company is also working on reusable variable sets and a centralised provider registry as steps towards deeper standardisation and improved onboarding. Enhancements to the developer experience, particularly the creation and management of ephemeral workspaces for experimentation and testing, are also in progress.
The company maintains that a focus on automation, reusability, and visibility will support enterprise teams in managing and delivering infrastructure at scale.
