This article explains how Skyscanner integrated the Sonar Secrets plugin into their CI/CD pipeline to automatically detect hard‑coded secrets such as passwords, API tokens, and AWS credentials, covering setup, build commands, installation steps, and enabling the rules in SonarQube quality profiles.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Jenkins' architecture, detailing the master and slave nodes, web interface, jobs, plugins, security, credentials, cloud agents, global settings, logging, configuration storage, connection methods, and best practices for backup and deployment.
This article demonstrates how to install the Jenkins File Operations plugin, generate its DSL configuration, run a pipeline that creates a file, lists directory contents, and includes a sample pipeline script with logs and screenshots illustrating each step.
This article outlines why DevOps is a hot career path, answers common questions about tools and practices, presents a 2020 DevOps roadmap, recommends key books such as The Phoenix Project and Continuous Delivery, and suggests free and paid courses—including Jenkins pipelines and CI/CD—to help beginners become competent DevOps engineers.
This article describes how to build a CI/CD pipeline using TFS for source control and Jenkins for automation on a Red Hat OpenShift‑based PaaS, covering code management, automated builds, testing, container image creation, deployment, and the necessary Jenkins and TFS configurations.
This article explains the fundamentals of static code scanning, reviews popular analysis tools such as Checkstyle, FindBugs, PMD and SonarQube, and details a three‑year evolution of a dealer technology department’s CI/CD integration, automation, metrics, and key success factors for effective code quality assurance.
This guide explains how to refresh the Jenkins interface by installing the Simple Theme plugin, applying an online material CSS stylesheet or a local custom CSS file, and configuring the theme settings to achieve improved fonts, syntax highlighting, and console output appearance.
The article shares ten practical lessons from a senior full‑stack engineer covering CSS specificity, component state design, backend code organization, PostgreSQL performance, the pitfalls of rushing releases, automation investment, mastering tools, MVP thinking, research‑driven development, and systematic scientific debugging.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the 14 most popular CI/CD tools, describing their main functionalities, licensing models, and official websites to help teams choose the most suitable solution for fast and reliable software delivery.
This guide walks you through installing the Blue Ocean plugin, accessing its UI, creating a multibranch pipeline, editing stages such as the GetCode stage, and committing the generated Jenkinsfile, highlighting its visual features and current limitations.
This tutorial walks through configuring GitHub Actions for a Python project to enforce code style, run unit tests, and generate coverage reports using CodeFactor, the wemake‑python‑styleguide action, and Codecov, complete with step‑by‑step instructions and workflow examples.
The article details how a Go middleware QA team generates unit‑test coverage with go test and gocov, runs static analysis via golangci‑lint, integrates results into SonarQube, captures integration‑test coverage in Kubernetes, and applies diff‑cover for incremental coverage checks, all visualized through Jenkins.
This article describes how to create an immutable Jenkins instance by storing all configuration and job definitions as declarative code, building a Docker image with required plugins, using the Configuration‑as‑Code and Job‑DSL plugins, and automating setup tasks such as default user creation and wizard skipping across multiple environments.
This article explains four concrete distinctions between Jenkins scripted and declarative pipelines—including code validation at start, stage restart capability, options handling, and conditional stage execution—illustrated with side‑by‑side code examples and screenshots.
This article explains how Tencent Meeting leveraged Tencent Cloud’s Kubernetes Engine (TKE) and a suite of cloud‑native extensions—dynamic routing, fixed networking, parallel scaling, and controlled batch upgrades—to achieve rapid, reliable version iteration and massive capacity growth during the COVID‑19 surge.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step tutorial for building, containerizing, and deploying a Spring Cloud microservice project on a Kubernetes cluster, covering environment preparation, Maven builds, Docker image creation, YAML orchestration, and verification of the frontend portal.
Load testing, which simulates thousands of real users, is crucial for uncovering performance bottlenecks that functional tests miss, and integrating automated load tests into every CI cycle helps prevent crashes, protect revenue, and ensure reliable software delivery.
This article explains the core concepts of continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and testing, outlines common challenges such as limited environments and ownership issues, and highlights why CI/CD is vital for improving developer productivity, code quality, and faster software releases.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of front‑end technical base construction, covering its definition, importance, typical components such as standards, tooling, CI/CD, data tracking and performance automation, and shares practical experiences and best‑practice examples from the 2020 Front‑end Early Talk conference.
This article explains the fundamental principles, practical steps, and toolchain choices for designing a reliable CI/CD pipeline that accelerates software delivery while maintaining quality, covering integration, automation, DevOps culture, containerization, continuous testing, and controlled deployment.
The article reviews Meituan Delivery’s journey from early serial releases to bi‑weekly and weekly delivery models, detailing the key factors, automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and operational principles that enable faster, high‑quality mobile app releases.
This guide explains how to install and configure Jenkins' Email Extension plugin, set up SMTP settings, create a shared library Groovy script for email notifications, and test the email functionality within a Jenkins pipeline.
This guide explains branch development strategies, naming conventions, Dockerfile creation, image building and publishing, as well as automated Harbor image cleanup using Jenkins pipelines, providing a comprehensive workflow for managing container images in a cloud‑native environment.
This article details UCloud's engineering of API and SDK management—including unified modeling, code generation, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines—to dramatically improve the stability, reliability, and release efficiency of its public cloud services.
This tutorial explains how to set up Docker‑in‑Docker for Jenkins, mount the Docker socket, run containers as root, and create multi‑stage pipelines that use different Docker images for Maven and Node builds, including troubleshooting tips.
This tutorial walks through using Groovy code to set up Docker Cloud in Jenkins, detailing class imports, parameter maps, template creation, cloud configuration, and an alternative JNLP‑based example for advanced container launch strategies.
This guide explains how to deploy Jenkins using Docker, set up both static and dynamic Docker‑based slaves, configure plugin sources, adjust certificates, and fine‑tune Docker Cloud settings for reliable CI/CD pipelines.
This article explains why and how to adopt the open‑source Cppcheck tool for C/C++ static analysis, covering installation on Linux, building from source, command‑line usage, Jenkins plugin integration, pipeline scripting, and report visualization to prevent new warnings from entering the codebase.
This article demonstrates how to use Jenkins Core API and Job DSL in a Groovy Jenkinsfile to programmatically create, update, and manage Jenkins jobs and folders, including handling security approvals and template project configuration.
This article explains what Jenkins and pipelines are, then guides you through installing Docker, running a Jenkins container, retrieving the initial admin password, and completing the Jenkins setup via the web interface, including plugin installation and user creation.
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, the mall development team adopted a comprehensive DevOps toolchain—including JIRA, GitLab, Jenkins, Sonar, Docker, and Wiki—to enable end‑to‑end remote development, automated pipelines, and continuous delivery, resulting in improved efficiency, reliable releases, and seamless collaboration.
This article presents a complete Jenkinsfile that defines choice parameters for selecting an environment and dynamically populates a server list using Groovy scripts, then demonstrates a simple pipeline stage that validates and echoes the chosen values, aborting the build if validation fails.
This article introduces Jenkins infrastructure setup, including installation via Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Docker, outlines management tools such as CLI, REST API, python‑jenkins and Jenkins‑client, describes project creation plugins like Job DSL, Job Builder and Jenkinsfile, and explains system configuration using Groovy scripts and the Configuration‑as‑Code plugin.
This guide explains how to use Jenkinsfile Runner to execute Jenkins pipelines locally via the command line or Docker, covering prerequisite downloads, building the runner, command‑line options, a sample Jenkinsfile, and tips on plugin management for efficient testing.
This guide walks through setting up a complete development and automated deployment stack on a fresh CentOS server, using Docker with Laradock for PHP testing, GitLab for source control, and Jenkins for CI/CD, including detailed command examples, configuration parameters, and plugin setup.
This article introduces Kong, a cloud‑native API gateway, outlines its key features such as high performance, plugin architecture, and built‑in security, explains why it solves common microservice challenges like unified entry, scalability and CI/CD, and provides step‑by‑step guidance for deployment, clustering, custom plugin development, and troubleshooting.
This guide explains how to install and configure the Jenkins Active Choices plugin to create dynamic, parameterized builds in Pipeline projects, including using Groovy scripts for checkbox, radio button, and multi-select UI widgets, and handling reactive parameters with conditional logic.
This guide explains how to set up a Jenkins instance with a domestic update mirror by customizing a Docker image, adjusting environment variables, copying certificates, and modifying update‑center URLs to improve plugin download speed in China.
The article explains that shared libraries, a familiar concept from languages like Python, are implemented in Jenkins as Groovy classes containing methods, helping to centralize pipeline code, avoid bloated Jenkinsfiles, and improve maintainability, while also promoting a live broadcast and group chat.
This guide explains how to deploy Nexus with Docker, define component concepts, configure Maven settings, and use Jenkins pipelines—both script‑based and Nexus plugin—to upload and publish artifacts to Nexus and Artifactory, including API scripts and naming conventions for repository management.
This guide walks through setting up Crowd 3.7.1 with Jenkins 2.220 by creating user directories, groups, and applications in Crowd, then configuring Jenkins to use the Crowd2 plugin for global security and login, including screenshots for each step.
The article explains the concept of shared libraries, compares them to Python modules, describes how Jenkins Groovy shared libraries store classes and methods, and discusses their role in simplifying and standardizing pipeline code to avoid overly complex Jenkinsfiles.
This guide walks through installing the Spinnaker continuous‑delivery platform on a Kubernetes 1.16+ cluster using Helm 3, covering environment preparation, Helm chart adjustments for API version compatibility, storage class configuration, proxy settings for Halyard, and exposing the service via Traefik IngressRoute.
The article explains the concept of shared libraries, compares them to Python modules, describes how Jenkins uses Groovy classes for reusable pipeline code, and highlights their role in simplifying and standardizing Jenkinsfile management while also promoting an upcoming live event.
This article introduces HttpRunner, a universal HTTP(S) testing framework, explains the YAML/JSON structure for APIs and test cases, demonstrates GET and POST definitions, and shares practical tips on handling variables, output, and extract to avoid common pitfalls in automated API testing.
The article explains how to use feature flags in a three‑tier microservice architecture, describing the need for both high‑level end‑to‑end tests and low‑level unit tests within CI/CD pipelines to ensure correct behavior when flags are on or off, while avoiding excessive test combinatorial explosion.
This guide lists Jenkins REST API endpoints for project management tasks such as retrieving information, creating, disabling, enabling, deleting, and building jobs, and demonstrates how to wrap HTTP requests with the httpRequest step in a Jenkins pipeline using authentication tokens.
This tutorial demonstrates how to install the python‑jenkins library, explore its extensive job, node, credential, view and plugin management methods, and use concrete code examples to create, copy, configure, and control Jenkins jobs and pipelines from Python scripts.
Meituan Waimai transformed its release process from a six‑week serial model to a hybrid bi‑weekly and weekly cadence, automating version management, CI pipelines, and deployment to enable continuous delivery that rapidly ships features for over 30 million daily orders while maintaining high quality.
This guide introduces Jenkinsfile pipeline development utilities, covering a snippet generator, declarative syntax generator, essential global variables, and frequently used pipeline methods such as JSON handling, credential usage, source checkout, HTML reporting, interactive input, build user identification, and HTTP requests.
This article walks through Docker’s architecture, acceleration tricks, containerization best practices, and a hands‑on DevOps workflow that uses Jenkins to build Docker images and deploy them to a Kubernetes cluster, highlighting practical tips for Chinese developers and cost‑effective cloud‑native operations.
This tutorial explains how to configure Jenkins shared libraries, create Groovy utility classes, and integrate them into pipelines, covering library structure, code examples, required plugins, and usage within Jenkinsfiles to enhance DevOps workflows.
This guide explains how to integrate SonarQube into a DevOps workflow by using its REST API, creating reusable shared library functions, configuring multi‑branch analysis, and automating quality gate checks within a CI/CD pipeline.
This guide explains how to install and configure SonarQube Scanner, set up project analysis parameters, and automate code quality checks within Jenkins pipelines using shared libraries and Groovy scripts, enabling continuous inspection of Java projects.
This guide outlines the key 2020 trends, essential automation and programming skills, recommended learning resources, and practical steps for test engineers to advance their careers, stay current with emerging technologies, and build a strong professional presence.
DevOps integrates development and operations through continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, leveraging tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, and cloud platforms like Azure DevOps and AWS to automate code management, build processes, configuration, testing, and infrastructure provisioning, ultimately accelerating delivery and improving quality.
An overview of eleven essential open-source and commercial tools—including SonarQube, Kritika, DeepScan, Klocwork, CodeSonar, JArchitect, Bandit, Code Climate, Crucible, Fortify, and Codecov—that help developers analyze code quality, detect security vulnerabilities, and integrate seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines across multiple programming languages.
Jenkins X introduces serverless Jenkins, leveraging Prow and Knative on Kubernetes to provide a cloud‑native, highly available CI/CD solution that eliminates single‑point failures, reduces costs, and integrates GitOps, while offering migration guidance, FAQs, and practical Terraform commands for deployment.
To keep Git repository analysis up‑to‑date, this guide shows how to create a Jenkins pipeline that periodically or on‑demand runs GitStats, generates HTML reports, deploys them to Tomcat, and cleans up workspace, supporting multiple repositories with parameterized builds and email notifications.
This article details Tencent Online Education's three business lines, the challenges of mini‑program engineering such as inconsistent environments and release issues, and how a custom DevOps workflow, automated testing, a bespoke CLI tool, and Serverless cloud functions were introduced to create a unified, scalable cloud‑native development pipeline.
The author experienced unusually long stage transitions in a Jenkins pipeline, traced the slowdown to differences between a manually built Kubernetes cluster using CephFS on an older Linux kernel and an automated Ansible‑deployed cluster using Ceph RBD, and discovered that switching to NFS or proper Ceph configuration restored fast execution.
This article explains how to gather build metrics from Jenkins pipelines, store them in InfluxDB deployed on Kubernetes, and display the data using Grafana dashboards, providing a practical DevOps solution for continuous delivery measurement and feedback.
This article outlines ten essential microservices best practices—from domain‑driven design and independent databases to async communication, observability, and organizational alignment—providing a comprehensive guide for building scalable, maintainable service‑oriented systems.
This article explains how DevSecOps integrates security into CI/CD pipelines, discusses the shortcomings of traditional waterfall security, outlines benefits of DevOps, and provides practical tool recommendations and a step‑by‑step example using open‑source solutions like Jenkins and git‑secrets.
This article explains how the internally built jCover tool helps a fast‑moving Java backend team measure and improve test coverage across full‑stack, incremental, and parallel testing scenarios, addressing common challenges of agile development, tool limitations, and quality assurance.
This guide explains how to automate Jenkins project creation at scale by using the Job DSL plugin to generate DSL scripts, converting them to XML via a Playground tool, and creating or updating jobs through the Jenkins Core API or Script Console, with full code examples.
This guide walks you through preparing scripts, uploading them, making them executable, and creating Jenkins jobs for each module of the multi‑module Mall project to achieve fully automated deployment using free‑style projects and SSH execution.
This article walks through step‑by‑step how to integrate Jenkins with LDAP, GitLab, and GitHub for unified authentication, covering preparation, plugin installation, configuration details, testing, and the final login experience, illustrated with screenshots.
This article explains the motivation behind building ITest, a unified API testing platform, details its architecture, key features such as Swagger import, parameterization, assertions, signing, and CI/CD integration, and summarizes the benefits it brings to development and testing teams.
This article outlines essential Jenkins Pipeline best practices, including using the official Pipeline plugin, treating pipelines as code, organizing work into stages and nodes, leveraging parallel execution, handling inputs with timeouts, and preferring stash over archive for artifact management.
Implementing an effective CI/CD pipeline involves understanding continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, recognizing their benefits such as faster feedback and early error detection, and following key stages—from commit and build to testing and production deployment—while selecting appropriate tools and practices to streamline software delivery.
At the 2019 Operations Conference in Beijing, China Telecom’s R&D leader detailed the company’s transformation journey, the DICT capability center’s strategy, the Biying cloud platform, and the implementation of an integrated DevOps platform that streamlines end‑to‑end software delivery using containers, CI and security automation.
This article explains how to construct a basic Tekton CI/CD pipeline on Kubernetes, covering core concepts, required resources, task definitions, pipeline templates, secret and ServiceAccount setup, execution monitoring, and includes full YAML and shell code examples for building, testing, and deploying a container image.
This article explains what containers are, introduces Kubernetes as a leading open‑source container orchestration platform, and details its key advantages such as universal deployment, seamless cloud migration, efficient resource use, built‑in auto‑scaling, simplified CI/CD, and high reliability.
This article presents a comprehensive Jenkins‑based CI/CD solution that supports multiple branches, environments, projects, and programming languages, offering one‑click deployment and rollback, standardized naming conventions, configurable project mapping files, and a flexible multi‑environment workflow for automated and manual triggers.
This guide explains GitHub Actions, covering its core concepts, how to configure workflow files, define jobs and steps, use actions, set environment variables, apply conditional execution, and leverage matrix strategies for CI/CD automation across multiple platforms and runtimes.
Youzan’s mobile infrastructure combines enforced pre‑release processes, unified permission workflows, cross‑platform Zan Weex and emerging Flutter support, dynamic configuration, robust CI, logging, testing, and shared component libraries to deliver efficient, high‑quality, gray‑/conditional‑/full releases while fostering collaboration across its mobile development teams.
This guide demonstrates how to use several Jenkins Pipeline plugins—including readJSON, withCredentials, checkout, publishHTML, input, BuildUser, and httpRequest—to handle JSON data, manage credentials, retrieve source code, publish HTML reports, interactively collect input, obtain build user information, and perform HTTP requests within a CI/CD workflow.
This guide shows how to generate GitHub badges with shields.io, write unit tests using AVA, measure coverage with nyc, report results to Codecov, and automate the whole process with Travis CI, providing a complete CI/CD workflow for Node.js projects.
This article examines how Ctrip Hotel implements DevOps testing—from business and technical drivers, through continuous delivery challenges, to the design of the Moss platform, its toolchain, data center, and future automation goals—highlighting practical solutions for rapid, high‑quality software delivery.
This guide shows how to use Jenkins to automate the packaging and deployment of a multi‑module microservice project, covering script preparation, job creation for each service, startup order recommendations, and one‑click deployment for rapid releases.
This article explains how to write Jenkinsfiles using Groovy syntax, demonstrating that beyond the built‑in DSL methods provided by Jenkins plugins, native Groovy can be employed for data manipulation and flow control, illustrated with multiple screenshot examples.
This article introduces SonarQube, an open‑source code quality management platform, explains its four main components, integration workflow with IDEs, CI servers and databases, and highlights key features such as rule sets, quality gates, and project dashboards for improving software quality.
This article demonstrates how to define and run custom Gradle tasks using the Groovy DSL, explains the difference between configuration and execution phases, shows task dependencies, and provides examples such as copy tasks and packaging tasks for Java projects.
This article outlines the essential basic and advanced tools—including IDEs, version control, CI servers, testing frameworks, build systems, containerization, and Linux—that Java developers should master in 2019 to improve productivity and code quality.
The article explains continuous testing within DevOps, defining the practice, correcting common myths, outlining its advantages, identifying implementation challenges, and offering practical guidelines to achieve faster, higher‑quality software delivery.
This guide explains why source‑code scanning is essential for security and compliance, describes manual Black Duck scanning steps, outlines integration goals, details required parameters, shows Jenkins configuration, and provides a complete Jenkinsfile pipeline script to automate Black Duck scans on each build.
This article examines how adversaries target Jenkins automation servers, detailing common discovery methods, exploitation techniques such as Java deserialization and mis‑configured authentication, and practical red‑team demonstrations of credential extraction, script‑console abuse, and malicious job creation to illustrate mitigation recommendations.
This article explains how to configure Jenkins Matrix projects to run parallel builds across multiple platforms and browsers using both scripted and declarative pipeline syntax, including label setup, axis generation, task parallelization, and user‑driven selection of combinations.
This article demonstrates how to shrink Go application Docker images and accelerate CI builds by applying multi‑stage builds, consolidating RUN commands, cleaning up layers, and leveraging Docker's cache‑from feature to reuse previously built layers in GitLab CI pipelines.
In this reflective Thanksgiving post, the author thanks DevOps practices—consistent code delivery, automated CI/CD pipelines, and application containerization—highlighting how they eliminate manual errors, improve accountability across environments, enable scalable infrastructure as code, and foster collaboration, ultimately transforming the software development lifecycle.
The article explains how to streamline Flutter Engine customization by rewriting build and release scripts—linking engine versions to Flutter tags, using gclient, gn, and ninja to fetch dependencies, generate Ninja files, compile, debug locally, package the framework, and automate publishing with version‑locked .gclient templates, enabling one‑click builds and future storage‑mirroring.
This guide explains why automated testing is overtaking manual testing, outlines the main categories of automation tools, and provides practical criteria—such as platform support, adoption ease, scripting flexibility, integration, reporting, and licensing—to help teams select the most suitable solution for their CI/CD and DevOps workflows.
This guide explains how to configure Artifactory in Jenkins, set up server credentials, and use both a Jenkins Shared Library and a Jenkinsfile to automatically publish build artifacts to Artifactory as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
This article explains what Artifactory is, its role as a binary repository manager comparable to Git for binaries, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing, starting, stopping, accessing, and upgrading Artifactory on a Linux system.
This guide explains how to build an automated interface‑testing pipeline using Jenkins, Ant, JMeter and Groovy, generate test reports, filter out false‑positive failures caused by network or environment issues, let users confirm them in Jenkins, and recalculate success, failure and false‑positive rates.
This article explains what DevOps is, outlines Zhenkunxing's DevOps planning and design principles, describes the 3+1 architecture comprising a container cloud platform, microservice platform and development toolchain, and discusses implementation phases, current achievements, and future AI‑enabled DevOps directions.
This article explains the principles of DevOps, outlines an eight‑point requirement checklist for a Docker‑based DevOps environment, details the step‑by‑step workflow using GitLab, Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube, Harbor and Kubernetes, and then compares it with Serverless architectures, highlighting future trends.
This article explains why Jenkins plugin downloads are slow for Chinese users, introduces the TUNA mirror service, details the signed update‑center.json mechanism, and provides a step‑by‑step solution—including configuration changes and open‑source tools—to achieve fast, reliable plugin installation.
This article details LeXin Medical's journey from a manually built Kubernetes cluster to the UCloud UK8S platform, covering the challenges of self‑hosting, the tools and processes used for migration, and the resulting improvements in logging, monitoring, CI/CD, and overall operational efficiency.
