The inaugural Techo TVP Developer Summit in Shenzhen gathered over 500 developers to explore the latest trends in databases, distributed systems, big data, and cloud‑native technologies, offering expert analyses, real‑world case studies, and career guidance for data professionals.
This guide details a complete GitLab‑based CI/CD workflow that starts with issue and milestone creation, defines feature‑branch pipelines, builds and tests Java applications, performs code analysis, creates Docker images, and deploys to Kubernetes with controlled pipeline triggers and rollback strategies.
This article explains what a CI/CD pipeline is, why it is essential for DevOps, outlines its standard stages, discusses implementation steps and tool‑selection principles, highlights current cloud‑native trends, and warns against common anti‑patterns that can hinder continuous delivery.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud's ACK Cloud Controller Manager now supports attaching both in‑cluster nodes and external ECS instances to the same CLB backend, enabling smooth traffic migration, canary releases, and multi‑cluster high‑availability with step‑by‑step instructions and code examples.
From its 2016 debut to the present, Baidu’s Fengjing APM system has evolved through four major releases—moving from invasive jar‑based probes to non‑invasive bytecode agents, adding modular hot‑swap plugins, scaling to thousands of containers, handling billions of daily metrics via Kafka, Doris, and SIA TSDB, while solving probe upgrade downtime, data‑ingestion volume, and call‑graph query latency.
This article reviews Nacos' evolution from its 1.x architecture—highlighting its five-layer design and service discovery issues—to the 2.0 version that introduces long‑connection RPC, a new client‑centric model, and improved performance, while also outlining upcoming roadmap plans.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Dubbo Java RPC framework, covering its historical evolution, protocol design, registry and clustering mechanisms, extensibility via SPI, generic invocation, and upcoming cloud‑native and reactive programming developments.
Meituan’s Nest Serverless platform, built on native Kubernetes with Knative‑inspired components, delivers elastic scaling, rapid cold‑start reduction, multi‑region high availability, and integrated developer tools, enabling higher resource utilization, lower costs, and up to 40 % faster development across diverse business scenarios.
This article introduces a selection of Alibaba‑open‑source developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, ARMS, Docsite, Freeline, PTS, KT, AHAS, EasyExcel, HandyJSON, EDAS Serverless, Druid, and Dragonwell—detailing their purpose, typical usage scenarios, tutorials, and where to obtain them, helping developers improve efficiency and reliability across various technology stacks.
This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of Docker’s client‑server architecture, detailing the roles of Docker Client, Daemon, Engine, Jobs, Registry, Graph, drivers, Libcontainer, and how they work together to create and run isolated containers.
This article explores the definition, evolution, and recent technical upgrades of Serverless computing, highlights Alibaba Cloud's journey and challenges such as vendor lock‑in and workflow shifts, and outlines future opportunities across e‑commerce, AI, gaming, and IoT.
Learn a systematic approach to diagnosing Kubernetes core component issues by identifying faulty nodes, analyzing logs via systemd or static pods, and leveraging Go's pprof tool for performance profiling, including step‑by‑step commands and UI visualizations for components like kube‑apiserver, scheduler, controller‑manager, and kubelet.
This article introduces Prometheus fundamentals, its architecture and metric types, then walks through a complete Kubernetes deployment—including namespace, RBAC, ConfigMap, and various exporters—showing how to collect metrics, configure alerts, and visualize data with Grafana, while highlighting limitations and future improvements.
This article presents Dada Group's comprehensive approach to elastic capacity management and automated scaling, detailing the challenges faced during traffic spikes, the design of a cloud‑native auto‑scaler, multi‑metric observability, decision‑making logic, execution mechanisms, extreme scaling practices, and future optimization directions.
This article introduces Loki, Grafana’s lightweight, horizontally scalable log aggregation system, compares it with the EFK stack, explains Promtail, LogQL query language, alerting, and how Loki integrates with Grafana and Prometheus for unified metrics and logs, highlighting its low‑resource, cloud‑native advantages.
This guide explains why KubeVela documentation needs Chinese translation, outlines the community‑organized translation activity, and provides detailed preparation steps, task workflow, local build commands, PR submission, review process, and final merge instructions for contributors.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker’s overall architecture and detailed analysis of its core components—including client, daemon, engine, registry, graph database, drivers, and libcontainer—explaining how they interact to manage containers, images, networking, and execution within a cloud‑native environment.
In this presentation, JD Cloud’s Director He Yuzhi explores how DevOps practices can overcome the complexities of modern IT infrastructure, detailing strategies for cloud‑native adoption, efficient development workflows, and the transformation of operations in the era of rapid digital change.
Alibaba’s Light Store team leveraged internal Serverless platforms to redesign their front‑end development workflow, introducing a sidecar‑and‑bottle architecture, unified FaaS SDK, and a layered service model that together accelerate development, reduce coordination costs, and enhance system stability across multiple business domains.
This article recounts Alibaba's year‑long Service Mesh journey, highlighting how the team shifted from large‑scale rollout to delivering incremental business value, adopted non‑intrusive sidecar designs, integrated Dubbo 3.0, and applied software‑lifecycle thinking to create scalable, low‑overhead traffic management solutions.
Kubernetes 1.21, the first 2021 release, introduces 51 enhancements—including stable CronJobs, immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps, IPv4/IPv6 dual‑stack, graceful node shutdown, a PersistentVolume health monitor, and several deprecations—while simplifying the build process and offering new download options.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Kubernetes architecture, covering container operations, core components, multi‑center deployment models, service discovery methods, pod resource sharing, CNI plugins, load‑balancing layers, isolation dimensions, network principles, and IP address classifications.
Learn how to quickly create and launch a DingTalk meeting‑room reservation H5 application in just five minutes using Alibaba Cloud’s cloud‑native serverless platform, covering registration, template selection, configuration, deployment, and publishing steps with Java and CloudIDE.
This article explains Nacos's service discovery model, including its multi‑layer namespace‑group‑service‑cluster‑instance structure, practical code examples for registering services and instances, customization options, isolation strategies, and both pull and push discovery mechanisms for robust microservice architectures.
KubeVela, an open‑source programmable cloud‑native application platform built on OAM and Kubernetes, transforms traditional PaaS limitations by using CUE templates to define modular capabilities, integrates Helm, supports multi‑cluster deployments, and enables self‑service delivery, making application shipping faster and more flexible.
Baidu’s MEG platform team outlines the step‑by‑step cloud‑native migration of its massive search and recommendation services, focusing on resource utilization, development efficiency, service design standards, dynamic management, and future declarative architecture, while sharing concrete metrics, standards, and lessons learned.
This article demonstrates how to build a MySQL master‑slave replication cluster on Kubernetes by leveraging StatefulSet for stateful pod management, local persistent volumes for storage, and a series of YAML manifests and commands to configure storage classes, PVs, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Services, and the StatefulSet itself, while also showing how to verify replication and scale the replica set.
This article explains how to deploy a PyFlink feature platform on Kubernetes, covering basic K8s concepts, Flink execution graphs, various deployment modes, preparation steps, detailed Standalone and Native deployment procedures, and practical tips for efficient big‑data processing.
Prometheus, favored for cloud‑native monitoring, is deployed at G‑Bank using the Prometheus Operator and CRDs to automate service discovery, rule management, and alerting, while addressing performance limits, metric accuracy, storage strategies, and closed‑loop monitoring to achieve scalable, distributed observability.
This article explains how TSF Mesh adapts Istio’s service‑mesh architecture to run both containerized and virtual‑machine workloads, detailing the modifications for sidecar injection, traffic hijacking, and service registration/discovery, and showing the underlying modules and code changes required.
This guide explains the design and implementation of RocketMQ‑Exporter, walks through setting up RocketMQ, compiling and running the exporter, configuring Prometheus to scrape its metrics, defining alert rules, and visualizing data with Grafana for a complete DevOps monitoring solution.
This guide walks through installing required tools, configuring Postfix, adding the GitLab repository, installing GitLab CE on a Kubernetes master, adjusting default ports in GitLab’s configuration files, reloading the setup, and accessing the service via a web browser.
This article explains the evolution from monolithic to distributed, SOA, and microservice architectures, defines microservices, and provides a detailed overview of Spring Cloud’s core components such as Eureka, Ribbon, Feign, Hystrix, Zuul, Gateway, Config, Bus, OAuth2, and Sleuth.
This article explains Knative’s traffic‑driven autoscaling and gray‑release capabilities, detailing the request flow architecture, the roles of Service, Configuration, Route and Revision, and walks through built‑in scaling strategies such as KPA, HPA, scheduled‑HPA, event‑gateway and custom plugins, with practical examples.
This article explains how to build highly available stateless services by covering redundant deployment, load‑balancing algorithms, vertical and horizontal scaling, CDN/OSS usage, and practical recommendations for monitoring, automated recovery, and minimizing failure impact.
This article details RocketMQ's 2020 Double‑11 transformation, covering its migration to a Kubernetes‑based operator, a MessageType‑indexed filter optimization that cut CPU usage by up to 32%, and the introduction of a POP consumption model that eliminates rebalance‑induced latency and improves reliability.
This article explains how the open‑source Fluid project addresses the inefficiencies of data‑intensive AI and big‑data workloads in cloud‑native Kubernetes environments by introducing a data‑centric abstraction, dual orchestration mechanisms, and seamless integration with Alluxio to achieve faster, secure, and scalable data access.
The China Cloud Computing Industry Development White Paper analyzes the rapid growth of cloud services, detailing the industry chain, domestic chip initiatives, major cloud providers, database and cloud‑native advancements, and outlines strategic recommendations for autonomous, secure, and high‑quality cloud development in China.
Meituan's elastic scaling system evolved from Hulk 1.0 on OpenStack to Hulk 2.0 on Kubernetes, adding micro‑services, quota management, hybrid‑cloud pools, and automated scheduling, thereby delivering cost savings, high‑availability handling of holiday peaks, delivery spikes, anti‑scraping needs, and SaaS releases, while future plans target stability, usability, and emerging technologies.
The article explains how Serverless is becoming the default cloud programming model, outlines the observability challenges it introduces, and details Alibaba Cloud Function Compute's evolution from basic logging to a comprehensive, open‑source‑compatible monitoring platform.
This article explains how UCloud's Serverless container product Cube integrates Virtual Kubelet with Kubernetes, why kube-proxy is unsuitable for lightweight serverless VMs, and how an eBPF‑based Rust proxy (cproxy) provides efficient service discovery and superior performance across different service scales.
This guide explains how to use Ingress‑Nginx 0.21+ Canary annotations to perform blue‑green, canary, and A/B testing deployments on Kubernetes, covering annotation syntax, priority rules, and step‑by‑step examples with weight‑based, header‑based, and cookie‑based traffic splitting.
API gateways serve as unified entry points for Open API platforms, microservice architectures, and internal applications, enabling access control, traffic management, and service governance; the article examines their roles, deployment scenarios, competitive alternatives, and criteria for selecting suitable open‑source, cloud, or self‑built solutions.
The article reviews eight major DevOps trends expected in 2021—including infrastructure automation, application release orchestration, evolving toolchains, DevSecOps, APM, cloud‑management platforms, AgileOps, and chaos engineering—while also offering the author’s own forecasts for how DevOps, CI/CD, cloud‑native, AI, and people‑centric practices will shape the industry in the coming years.
This guide provides a comprehensive collection of Docker commands for inspecting container information, managing images (listing, searching, pulling, removing, building), and operating containers (starting, stopping, attaching, executing commands, viewing logs, inspecting, committing, and copying files) with practical examples.
Apache Pulsar’s built‑in Geo‑Replication lets multiple clusters across different regions synchronize data, offering both synchronous and asynchronous modes; this guide explains the three asynchronous patterns—full‑mesh, unidirectional, and failover—detailing required configurations, operational principles, and current limitations.
OpenYurt adds edge‑computing capabilities to a vanilla Kubernetes cluster by providing a non‑intrusive, one‑click conversion that enables autonomous edge nodes, with YurtHub and dual‑read‑closer mechanisms handling cached, filtered, and streamed data efficiently.
This article examines the evolution of data lakes, outlines the challenges enterprises face with massive, heterogeneous data, and details Tencent Cloud’s native data lake architecture and its serverless Data Lake Compute service, highlighting performance, cost‑efficiency, and future development directions.
This article explains Dapr’s evolution from a Service Mesh‑inspired runtime to a Multi‑Runtime platform, covering its sidecar model, core building blocks, control plane, and Alibaba’s contributions, while highlighting the broader cloud‑native implications for distributed applications.
The article introduces Uncode, a conceptual cloud‑native IDE that treats the entire software lifecycle as code, explains its DSL‑driven architecture, file‑based storage, blockchain‑style traceability, and the technical stack choices, while providing concrete code examples and design patterns.
This article explains why Knative is needed to simplify Kubernetes‑based serverless workloads, describes its core modules and traffic‑based gray release capabilities, and shows how Alibaba Cloud's ASK platform integrates with Knative to reduce operational complexity, improve elasticity, and lower costs.
Facing challenges of distributed microservice architectures, Tencent’s Smart Retail team built a full‑link performance monitoring platform using Apache SkyWalking and the cloud‑native TSW service, detailing architecture, agent integration, deployment steps, and performance impact to guide similar observability implementations.
This article details how Fangduoduo built an integrated, cloud‑native CI/CD release system—combining Vue front‑end, Python back‑end, Jenkins, Gerrit, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes—to automate builds, deployments, version control, testing, and service maintenance, dramatically boosting development efficiency.
This article explains how KubeVela converts an AppFile into a Kubernetes Application by outlining the two‑stage process, showing the relevant Go source code for the `vela up` command, detailing the AppFile and Application data structures, and describing the controller logic that renders the final Kubernetes resources.
This article presents a curated list of popular open‑source tools for monitoring, deployment, chaos testing, and reliability engineering, explaining their main features and how they help SREs and DevOps engineers build scalable, highly available cloud‑native systems.
The article examines Nacos' evolution from its Alibaba origins, outlines the performance and resource problems of the 1.x architecture, and details how the 2.x version’s long‑connection gRPC model, improved reliability, and compatibility enhancements address those issues while introducing new complexities.
The article introduces ChaosBlade‑Box, an open‑source cloud‑native chaos‑engineering console that builds on Alibaba’s ChaosBlade tool, explains the high‑availability challenges of cloud‑native systems, details the platform’s design, features, multi‑language support, deployment workflow, example experiments, and future roadmap for resilient architectures.
This article explains why using a single docker run command or Docker Compose is insufficient for reliable Java service deployment, introduces Kubernetes as a cloud‑native orchestration platform, and details its architecture and essential objects such as Pods, Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps.
GitOps automates infrastructure management by applying DevOps best practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD pipelines, using declarative IaC stored in Git to enable reliable, observable, and secure deployments across cloud‑native environments.
Over three years of running Kubernetes in production across on‑premise RHEL VMs and AWS EC2, we learned hard‑won lessons about Java container compatibility, upgrade strategies, build and deployment pipelines, probe tuning, external IP scaling, and when Kubernetes truly adds value.
In just 27 days, Douyin and Volcano Engine's cloud‑native team built a Kubernetes‑based, elastically scalable infrastructure that supported 703 billion red‑packet interactions and over a trillion live‑stream views during the 2021 Spring Festival Gala, ensuring zero downtime and seamless user experience.
The article explains Nacos 2's new long‑connection model built on gRPC, its performance gains over Nacos 1.x, compatibility details for configuration and discovery, Spring Cloud Alibaba integration, and provides download links and reference resources.
Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute now offers a container image acceleration feature that reduces pull and decompression times by 50‑80% across various workloads, leveraging on‑demand loading and faster algorithms, with no extra cost, and provides simple enablement via console, CLI, or SDK.
The article describes how the team built a production‑grade serverless workflow platform on Knative by creating four modules—a dashboard, API, operator, and syncer—that generate Kubernetes resources, automate CI/CD, monitor via Prometheus, and aim to cut boilerplate while supporting future extensions such as richer constructs, multi‑language support, and synchronous invocations.
This article presents a curated list of fifteen Alibaba‑originated developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, Docsite, and more—detailing their purpose, typical use cases, tutorial links, and acquisition methods to help backend engineers boost productivity and reliability.
The article explains how to leverage Nacos as a configuration center in Spring Cloud to manage multi‑environment settings using Data ID naming, configuration groups, and namespaces, providing code examples, command‑line usage, and a recommendation to prefer namespaces for clear separation and permission control.
This article details a three‑part technical sharing that covers cost governance for offline Hadoop clusters, a large‑scale data‑center migration with architecture upgrades, and a tiered storage strategy using EC and COS to reduce storage costs and improve performance in a cloud‑native big‑data environment.
This article details the step‑by‑step process of deploying JD’s Aura Android component platform on the private T‑PaaS environment, covering requirement analysis, solution selection, Docker image creation, Helm‑based Kubernetes orchestration, configuration management with Confd, and essential middleware setup for a successful cloud‑native rollout.
This developer community weekly roundup highlights CCTV's new big‑data governance platform, RedMonk's programming language rankings, Chromium‑based browsers adopting a four‑week release cycle, PyTorch 1.8 with AMD support, the world’s first AI‑driven earthquake monitoring system, Red Hat OpenShift 4.7, a deep meta‑learning model for city sales prediction, and a CVPR breakthrough in controllable human image generation.
The Spring Native beta release lets developers compile Spring applications into GraalVM native images via start.spring.io, offering near‑instant startup, peak performance, and lower memory usage while outlining usage, collaboration, supported scope, AOT transformation, and future roadmap.
This guide explains how to use GitHub Actions together with Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) and Container Registry (ACR) to build a lightweight, automated CI/CD pipeline that packages an Nginx app into a container, pushes it to ACR, and deploys it to ACK, illustrating a practical DevOps workflow.
Alinode expands its Node.js performance diagnostics into a full‑stack observability and scheduling platform for serverless workloads, offering traffic monitoring, white‑screen logs, remote debugging, crash analysis, standardized metrics, and a cloud‑native runtime that balances cost and performance.
This article outlines how Alinode has evolved from a Node.js performance diagnostic tool into a comprehensive observability and scheduling platform for serverless environments, detailing its Insight monitoring features, remote debugging, crash analysis, standardization efforts, and runtime optimizations that improve cost and performance.
Meituan’s OCTO 2.0 upgrades the company’s distributed service‑governance platform by reusing OCTO 1.0 infrastructure, adding a self‑developed control plane and a customized Envoy data‑plane that employ UDS traffic hijacking, on‑demand service discovery, loss‑less hot‑restart, and automated lifecycle management, while planning cloud‑native extensions and full‑link mTLS.
This guide walks you through troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments by explaining the relationships between Deployments, Services, and Ingress, showing a complete YAML example, detailing label and port matching rules, and providing concrete kubectl commands and debugging techniques for Pods, Services, and Ingress.
OpenKruise v0.8.0 introduces a new kruise‑daemon component for node‑level tasks, a scalable image pre‑pull capability via ImagePullJob, a fully restructured SidecarSet controller with enhanced injection and upgrade policies, a feature‑gate mechanism, and various optimizations such as CloneSet improvements and Alibaba Cloud image registry support.
CoreDNS is a modern, plugin‑based DNS server designed for containerized and Kubernetes environments, offering simple configuration, memory‑safe Go implementation, and tight integration with cloud‑native ecosystems, while also discussing its advantages, limitations, and relationship with the CNCF.
The article analyzes the challenges of moving traditional on‑premise big‑data platforms to the cloud, outlines the cost‑saving opportunities of cloud‑native data lakes, presents three core architectural principles, and reviews Tencent Cloud's data lake product suite and its key use cases.
Midway Serverless 2.0 (codenamed “Hercules”) revamps the original framework with unified decorators, a modern CLI, faster Vite‑based builds, enhanced testing, and seamless integration of traditional web frameworks, delivering a smoother, more efficient serverless development experience.
This article walks through deploying the open‑source mall‑swarm project using Docker for supporting services on a base server and Kubernetes on an application server, covering image packaging, Docker Compose setup, Rancher installation, Nacos configuration, YAML deployments, and Nginx reverse‑proxy access, with full command examples.
This article compares three cloud‑edge open‑source projects—KubeEdge, OpenYurt, and SuperEdge—by examining their open‑source status, architectural differences, edge‑computing capabilities, and the impact on operations, helping readers select the most suitable solution for production.
This guide walks you through using WireGuard for both networking and encryption in cloud‑native Kubernetes, showing how to configure Kilo CNI to create a multi‑cloud k3s mesh across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud, and how to connect local clients to the cluster.
This article explains how Baidu’s search middle‑platform implements full‑stack observability—metrics, tracing, logs, and topology analysis—to reliably monitor and troubleshoot a system handling billions of requests across hundreds of thousands of microservice instances.
This article explains how KubeVela, built on the OAM model, enables platform teams to assemble reusable, extensible application delivery capabilities on Kubernetes without reinventing wheels, covering its origins, user roles, core abstractions, Appfile workflow, dashboard/API support, and upcoming roadmap.
This article details the end‑to‑end process of privatizing JD's mPaaS Aura Android component platform on the TPaaS cloud‑native environment, covering requirement analysis, custom Dockerfile creation, unified configuration with confd, middleware setup, and Kubernetes resource definitions for a production‑grade deployment.
This guide presents a comprehensive checklist of Kubernetes best practices covering container image selection, registry authentication, namespace isolation, labeling, annotations, RBAC, pod security policies, network policies, secrets management, image scanning, CI/CD, canary releases, monitoring, service mesh, and admission controllers to help you build secure, stable, and scalable production clusters.
Youzan migrated its large‑scale offline Spark workloads from YARN to a cloud‑native Kubernetes architecture, separating storage and compute with Ceph FS, adding dynamic executor allocation and remote shuffle services, and applying numerous Spark and deployment tweaks that yielded elastic scaling, higher resource utilization, reduced costs, and valuable operational lessons.
The Dapr v1.0 release announces a production‑ready, Kubernetes‑focused runtime that delivers low‑latency service calls, robust security, a growing component ecosystem, and multi‑language SDKs, while showcasing real‑world case studies and outlining future roadmap priorities for cloud‑native developers.
Tracing has evolved from early log and stack‑trace techniques to modern distributed observability standards like OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry, and Tencent’s Cloud Service Watcher (TSW) demonstrates how cloud providers integrate these protocols to simplify microservice monitoring, performance metrics, and root‑cause analysis.
This guide shows how to set up a self‑hosted Docker registry proxy using Docker's registry image, Kubernetes (k3s), and Envoy to accelerate access to public image repositories like gcr.io, quay.io, and Docker Hub from within China, covering prerequisites, custom Dockerfile, deployment manifests, Envoy configuration, authentication, and cache cleanup.
This article explains Flannel's role in Kubernetes networking, shows how to deploy it, details its supported data‑forwarding modes such as VXLAN and Host‑GW, and walks through the complete packet journey from a source pod to a destination pod.
This tutorial shows front‑end developers how to build and deploy Node.js and Nginx as micro‑services on Tencent Cloud's TSF Mesh using Docker, service registration, governance, and monitoring, providing a low‑cost, zero‑intrusion migration path for non‑Java applications.
This article explains the Kubernetes pod network concept, describing how each pod receives a unique IP, how intra‑node and inter‑node pod communication works, and the role of the infra container and network bridges in enabling seamless IP addressing across the cluster.
This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on installing Prometheus, configuring its components, deploying it in a Kubernetes cluster with proper RBAC and persistent storage, and extending monitoring to applications and exporters using /metrics endpoints.
Fluid is an open‑source Kubernetes‑native engine that orchestrates and accelerates distributed datasets for AI and big‑data workloads, and this guide explains its core concepts, the JindoRuntime implementation, performance benefits, and step‑by‑step instructions to deploy and test JindoRuntime on a K8s cluster.
This workshop guides participants from installing a single‑node Elastic Stack to deploying a cloud‑native observability platform for a multi‑tier pet‑store application, covering health checks, metrics, logs, APM tracing, SLO/SLI setup, and custom dashboards across local, AWS, and Tencent Cloud environments.
This article examines why pod creation latency hurts serverless workloads on Kubernetes and presents a step‑by‑step guide that includes image pre‑warming, multithreaded decompression, non‑compressed images, P2P image distribution, and in‑place upgrade techniques to dramatically improve elasticity and startup performance.
This article explores Alibaba’s massive cloud‑native investments since 2017, Zhang Lei’s historic election to the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, his pivotal contributions to Kubernetes and open‑source projects, and his vision for the evolving cloud‑native ecosystem in China and beyond.
This guide walks through installing Nginx on a CentOS VM, opening firewall ports, disabling SELinux enforcement, extracting NodePort values from a Kubernetes cluster, editing the Nginx configuration to proxy TCP traffic, and testing the load balancer with a sample deployment.
The article traces the evolution of software architecture—from monolithic applications through vertical splitting, distributed services, and finally microservices—detailing their advantages, drawbacks, and the essential technology stack such as service discovery, API gateways, authentication, logging, containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD, while providing practical examples and references.
