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Harness Solutions Factory (HSF) — How It Works for Platform Admins

Harness Solutions Factory (HSF) is an automation framework that lets platform engineering teams define, publish, and govern reusable Harness resource bundles — and deliver them to developers through self-service, without requiring any Terraform or platform knowledge on the consumer side.

1. You Define the Templates

Platform admins author Terraform-backed templates that codify opinionated, repeatable configurations — things like a project pre-wired with environments, RBAC roles, user group bindings, pipelines, and connectors. These live in two places:

Here is a python implementation of the below process
Call GET signed url. This is needed for any upload.

curl 'https://app.harness.io/gateway/ccm/api/externaldata/signedurl?providerId=<provider id>&accountIdentifier=<account id>&invoicePeriod=20250401-20250501&objectName=<csv file>.csv' \
  -H 'x-api-key: <api key>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json'

harness artifacts are needed for configuring binaries on the build vm machines as well as the docker images used on those machines (in pipelines).

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for the docker images used in ci pipelines (harness steps are containers) we have a handy API that can retrive the current images:tags used in your account: https://developer.harness.io/docs/continuous-integration/use-ci/set-up-build-infrastructure/harness-ci/#specify-the-harness-ci-images-used-in-your-pipelines

pay close attention to the Send a get-default-config request to get a list of the latest Harness CI build images and tags and you will need to specify k8 or VM depending on your target infra model.

an example curl call is on the same page

artifact_artregistry_delete artifact_artregistry_deleteartifact artifact_artregistry_downloadartifact artifact_artregistry_edit artifact_artregistry_quarantineartifact artifact_artregistry_uploadartifact artifact_artregistry_view cde_gitspace_create cde_gitspace_delete cde_gitspace_edit

	ARG TOFU=1.11.6

	FROM ghcr.io/opentofu/opentofu:$TOFU-minimal AS tofu

	FROM plugins/harness_terraform

	COPY --from=tofu /usr/local/bin/tofu /usr/local/bin/tofu

	package template

	import future.keywords.in

	required_tags = {"ci", "cd", "db"}
	any_required_tag_exists(map) {
	some key in required_tags

	_ = map[key]
	}

	#!/bin/bash

	echo "Deleting HSF in account $HARNESS_ACCOUNT_ID. Enter to proceed or Ctr-C to cancel..."
	read

	echo "Deleting org..."
	curl -X DELETE 'https://app.harness.io/v1/orgs/Harness_Platform_Management' \
	-H "x-api-key: $HARNESS_PLATFORM_API_KEY" \
	-H "Harness-Account: $HARNESS_ACCOUNT_ID"

	from doctest import master
	from os import getenv
	from json import dumps

	from requests import post


	def get_connectors(type: str, page: int = 0, size: int = 10):
	resp = post(
	"https://app.harness.io/gateway/ng/api/connectors/listV2",

	{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
	{
	"Action": [
	"acm:ListCertificates",
	"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
	"elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
	"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
	"elasticloadbalancing:CreateTargetGroup",