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Software doesn’t go live overnight. It moves through a structured, repeatable process known as the software release life cycle — from initial planning to deployment and ongoing maintenance. In this video, we break down each stage of the release cycle: planning, development, testing, staging, deployment, and monitoring. You’ll also see how modern tools like Harness help teams automate CI/CD, feature flags, testing, and progressive delivery to ship better software faster and with less risk.

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.

The new Dynamic Stage allows you to import and execute an entire pipeline's YAML definition inside a single stage of your current pipeline. It is essentially running a pipeline within a stage. The pipeline YAML can either be generated and transformed at runtime in a previous stage, or be directly provided to the source input of the Dynamic Stage in encoded form. Dynamic Stages work seamlessly across Harness CI and CD modules.

Artifact Registry for Models - Unscripted 2025.