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A new era for your developer portal: The Cortex MCP is now generally available

Here's a scenario every on-call engineer knows too well: a critical incident fires for a service you’ve never seen before. Your first ten minutes are a frantic scramble across wikis and Slack channels just to answer the most basic questions: Who owns this? What does it do? Where are the runbooks? By the time you’re oriented, the incident has escalated.

Introducing Magellan: The AI data engine that builds your IDP

Building a catalog used to be a project. It meant months of tracking down owners, untangling dependencies, and manually piecing together a picture of your architecture. It was a tedious, thankless process that delayed the value of your Internal Developer Portal (IDP) before you even got started. Now, it’s a coffee break. We’re excited to introduce Magellan, our new AI-powered data engine designed to build your catalog and get your IDP live in minutes.

Eng Intelligence | Cortex

Unlock the power of Engineering Intelligence with Cortex. In this video, we explore how engineering teams can leverage data, insights, and best practices to improve developer productivity, accelerate software delivery, and scale platform engineering. What you’ll learn in this video: Cortex delivers visibility across your entire ecosystem—helping teams adopt best practices, reduce bottlenecks, and align engineering with business outcomes.

Cloud vs Colocation: strategic infrastructure choices for long-term value

Organisations are no longer limited to running everything in-house. The real question is where different workloads should sit to deliver the best long-term results. For many, that means weighing up cloud vs colocation. Both offer advantages over traditional infrastructure but serve different aims. Cloud makes it simple to scale and launch new services, while colocation provides predictable costs, direct control, and stronger assurance for compliance.

A 5-step enterprise guide to IaCM

As enterprises scale, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) alone isn’t enough to manage the growing complexity of modern infrastructure. Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) elevates IaC into a strategic, governed, and automated framework, providing centralized control, compliance, and collaboration at scale. Platforms like Harness IaCM make this transformation practical, turning infrastructure chaos into consistent, secure, and efficient operations.

Onboarding with Cortex

Onboarding to Cortex has never been easier. In this video, discover how Cortex and Magellan, our AI-powered data engine, make it possible to go from a blank slate to a fully functional internal developer portal in just minutes, not months. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, you can skip manual setup and start exploring your connected engineering ecosystem immediately. From day one, you’ll have visibility into services, ownership, and metrics, empowering your teams to drive standards and deliver value faster.

Expanding Your Infrastructure Automation Across the Lifecycle Using Puppet Edge

Infrastructure automation is evolving… and so is Puppet! While Puppet has long been known for its strength in Day 2 operations through agent-based desired state configuration, Puppet also extends across Day 0 and Day 1 tasks. With Puppet Edge, you can target network devices alongside your existing infrastructure, enabling your teams to manage more scenarios, more devices, and more workflows. All from a single platform.

The future of IDPs in an AI-first world

Over the last few months, I’ve had countless conversations with my peers about one topic: the rise of AI coding assistants. I know this isn’t exactly breaking news, and I’m sure you’ve had these conversations as well. But there’s a reason the common coffee chat today is 10 percent small talk and 90 percent about the AI-first world that we live in. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin are fundamentally changing how we write software.