Lab H - Policy as Code

Goals

See how easy it is with Harness to create and apply policies as code in order to enable governance and promote self-service.

Lab Guide

1. If you see the edit pipeline button top right, click to return to the Pipeline Studio.

Implement policy from library

1. On the left menu, 1 click Project Settings (you might need to scroll down)

2. In project settings, scroll down to Security and Governance and 1 click Policies

3. In the Welcome screen: click Build a Sample Policy

4. In the Policy pane: 1 (optional) type approval, 2 click Pipeline Approval, 3 click Next: Test Policy

5. In the Test Policy pane: click Next: Enforce Policy

6. In the Enforce Policy pane: 1 In Trigger event, choose On Run, 2 In Failure Strategy, choose Error & exit, 3 click You’re all set!

7. In the Apply Policy? pop-up: click Yes

   Test your new policy!

8. Return to your pipeline by: 1 Click Pipelines in the left menu (might need to scroll up), 2 click the Workshop pipeline

9. In the top right corner of your pipeline: click Run. Confirm you receive an error regarding your policy.

10. Edit your pipeline: 1 Click on frontend stage, 2 at very beginning stage, hover then click on blue arrow, click Add Step

11. In the Step Library, (optionally) search for approval, then Click on Harness Approval

12. In the Approval step: name the step Approval, scroll down then 1 Click on User Groups box.

13. In the user group selector: 1 click on Project, 2 check All Project Users, 3 Click Apply Selected

14. Back in the Approval step: Click Apply Changes (top right)

15. In Pipeline Studio: 1 click backend stage, after canary/before rolling release hover then click on blue arrow, click Add Step

16. Same as above, add Approval step in the library, scroll to user groups, and add all project users.

    Run your successful pipeline one final time

17. In the top right of screen, click Save, then click Run.