Exploring industry DevOps practices and technical expertise.
This guide explains how to implement a blue‑green deployment on Kubernetes with host‑ and path‑based routing, covering prerequisites, namespace creation, deployment manifests, service and ingress configuration, traffic switching, updates, verification, and rollback procedures.
This article explains how Docker init, a new CLI tool powered by generative AI, can automatically create Dockerfiles, .dockerignore, and compose files for various languages, simplifying container setup, reducing errors, and following best‑practice security guidelines.
McDonald's engineering team built a fast, reliable, and flexible continuous integration system by leveraging reusable GitHub Actions workflows, centralizing CI code, defining a golden‑path pipeline, balancing developer autonomy, and adding observability across multilingual microservices, improving productivity and maintainability.
This guide explains how to set up a Kubernetes pod to act as a Jenkins agent, covering prerequisites, deployment YAML, commands to launch and verify the pod and service, and the Jenkins UI configuration needed to connect the pod as a scalable CI/CD worker.
Weaveworks, the company that coined the term GitOps, announced its closure due to unstable sales despite $10 million revenue, prompting industry analysis of GitOps’s commercial viability, competition with ArgoCD, and the future stewardship of the open‑source Flux project under CNCF.
This guide walks through installing Jenkins and Nexus via Docker, configuring a Maven hosted repository in Nexus, setting up Jenkins credentials and plugins, and creating a Jenkins pipeline that builds a Maven project and publishes its artifacts to Nexus, enabling automated CI/CD for Java applications.
An extensive overview of essential DevOps tools for 2024, covering categories such as version control, CI/CD, container orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure as code, monitoring, collaboration, artifact repositories, testing, security, deployment automation, serverless platforms, and database management to guide effective tool selection.
DevOps and the emerging NoOps approach reshape the traditional software development lifecycle by fostering continuous development, tighter collaboration between developers and operations, and leveraging serverless technologies to automate operational tasks, thereby shortening delivery cycles and enabling startups and small applications to achieve faster, high‑quality releases.
This guide explains why and how to use the Git Parameter plugin in Jenkins to enable dynamic branch selection for both Freestyle and Pipeline jobs, covering configuration steps, code examples, and best practices for managing branch builds efficiently.
The article explains the importance of CI/CD observability, outlines common pipeline problems, introduces Grafana's GraCIe plugin built on OpenTelemetry, and discusses how enhanced visibility can improve reliability, decision‑making, and future standardization across CI/CD platforms.
