Monitoring as Code (MaC) extends the “everything‑as‑code” philosophy to observability, enabling DevOps teams to embed monitoring early in the development pipeline, achieve continuous insight, automate remediation, and improve software quality and delivery speed.
This tutorial walks through migrating a two‑node Kubernetes cluster (master and worker) from Docker to containerd on CentOS 7, covering environment setup, node draining, Docker removal, containerd installation and configuration, kubelet adjustments, uncordoning, and verification of the new container runtime.
This comprehensive guide explores the origins, evolution, and classification of software testing, outlines automation tools and conditions, discusses agile and DevOps integration, and provides practical step‑by‑step best practices for continuous testing using GitLab in early‑stage companies.
This guide explains why and how to assess the health of npm dependencies, outlines a step‑by‑step upgrade process, highlights tools like npm outdated, npm audit, depcheck, and offers practical advice on changelog review, lock‑file management, and distinguishing dependencies from devDependencies.
This guide explains Dockerfile fundamentals, walks through each core instruction with practical examples, demonstrates building images for simple CentOS containers, SpringBoot applications, and shows how to tag, push, and pull images from a registry, providing clear step‑by‑step commands and explanations.
This article explains the concepts of DevOps, SecOps, and DevSecOps, outlines their core principles and benefits, compares their focus on collaboration, automation, and security, and provides guidance on selecting the most suitable approach for organizations seeking integrated development, operations, and security practices.
Microsoft’s new Visual Studio Code Server and its CLI let developers install the backend service anywhere—from local machines to cloud VMs—and securely access it via VS Code for the Web without configuring SSH or HTTPS, though the feature is currently in private preview and requires a sign‑up request.
This guide explains product and engineering versioning, release tagging, branch naming conventions, and a step‑by‑step GitHub Flow workflow—including CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment practices—to help teams standardize release management and improve development efficiency.
Continuous delivery ensures rapid, safe code deployment by automating testing and mirroring production environments, outlining its concept, goals, principles, prerequisites, mandatory standards, recommended practices, and key metrics to achieve frequent, stable product releases.
This guide defines technical debt, outlines its classification into vulnerabilities, bugs, and code smells, and presents clear objectives, principles, standards, evaluation rules, recommended practices, and metrics to visualize, assess, and systematically reduce debt, thereby improving project delivery efficiency.
This guide explains the concept of Continuous Integration, its benefits for early error detection and quality improvement, outlines core principles, detailed workflow standards, recommended practices, daily development steps, and key metrics to monitor CI effectiveness.
Jenkins announced that starting with version 2.357 and the upcoming September LTS release, the CI/CD platform will require Java 11, outlining the migration history from Java 8, the benefits of newer runtimes, and the team’s recommendation to adopt Java 17 for better performance and security.
This tutorial explains how to automatically create and delete Jenkins agent pods on a Kubernetes cluster for each pipeline run by storing Groovy scripts in a shared library, loading them with ScriptConsole, and invoking the Kubernetes API through Jenkins.
The article outlines the nine core competencies—network expertise, Linux/Unix knowledge, cloud computing, CI/CD pipelines, QA automation, security engineering, DevOps, incident management, and post‑incident review—that enable SREs to ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of complex distributed systems.
Building a successful software company hinges on delivering valuable software quickly, and this article explains how we adopted Drone CI as the core of our continuous delivery pipeline—detailing its open‑source nature, Docker‑based architecture, service support, plugin ecosystem, testing integration, and artifact management.
The case study describes how LifeMiles migrated its legacy monolithic system to AWS and adopted Kubernetes for container orchestration, achieving a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs, a three‑fold increase in deployment frequency, and a doubling of usable resources while dramatically shortening time‑to‑market.
The article analyzes how the rise of software‑defined vehicles and the rapid development of cloud‑native and AI technologies are reshaping the automotive sector, outlining the IT challenges car makers face, the benefits of cloud‑native adoption, practical migration steps, and security considerations for a successful digital transformation.
This article demonstrates how to programmatically create Jenkins agent nodes on demand with Groovy scripts, covering import statements, node configuration, adding the node to Jenkins, and retrieving node details for further automation in a CI/CD pipeline.
The June 25 ByteDance‑ByteDance Dev Better technical salon, co‑hosted with Huatai Securities, presented a series of front‑end engineering talks covering serverless web development, modern.js engineering, DevOps adoption, and practical Q&A, offering valuable insights and best‑practice recommendations for web developers.
This article presents a comprehensive set of Kubernetes best practices covering namespace usage, health probes, autoscaling, resource requests, workload controllers, multi‑node clusters, RBAC, managed services, version upgrades, monitoring, GitOps, image optimization, labeling, network policies, and firewalls to help engineers design, operate, and maintain robust cloud‑native environments.
This article explains the DevOps methodology in the context of AWS, defines its relationship to cloud operations, and introduces three core AWS CI/CD services—CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild—detailing their features and benefits for accelerating software delivery.
This article explains what technical debt is, why it arises, and how adopting DevOps practices such as cross‑functional teams, automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, containerization, and API‑centric design can identify, track, and repay technical debt to improve system reliability and agility.
This article explains what DevSecOps is, why traditional security approaches no longer suffice in fast‑paced software delivery, outlines its key advantages such as risk control and cost reduction, and provides detailed guidance on organizational, process, and technology practices—including tool recommendations and CI/CD pipeline integration—to embed security throughout the software lifecycle.
This tutorial demonstrates how to set up automated Docker image vulnerability scanning with Trivy, embed the scan into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, handle severity thresholds, schedule recurring scans, and remediate findings by adjusting the Dockerfile, providing a practical DevOps security workflow.
This guide explains how to create and configure Jenkins multibranch pipelines for CI/CD, covering fundamentals, PR‑based branch discovery, a sample Jenkinsfile with conditional stages, step‑by‑step Jenkins UI setup, webhook integration with GitHub, testing procedures, and common troubleshooting tips.
This article introduces Ansible as a model‑driven configuration manager, explains its basic architecture and working principles, and provides detailed usage of its seven core commands with practical code examples for automation and DevOps tasks.
The ByteDance Dev Better technical salon brought together ByteDance and Huatai Securities front‑end teams to share practical experiences on serverless‑based web development, modern build tools, DevOps adoption, and front‑end efficiency improvements, followed by a detailed Q&A session.
Drawing from three and a half years of DevOps experience, this guide compiles critical operational practices—ranging from cautious command execution and strict change control to robust backup, security hardening, continuous monitoring, performance tuning, and a disciplined mindset—to help engineers avoid costly outages and data loss.
The article explains the growing importance of developer self‑service platforms in modern cloud‑native environments, describing their benefits, operational models, and how they empower developers to manage infrastructure and application delivery efficiently.
This article explains Baidu App’s DevOps workflow challenges, introduces the Pipeline as Code concept, compares Jenkins Pipeline and GitHub Actions DSLs, and details the design of Tekes Actions, its custom runner, and operational features such as pause/unpause and WebAPI integration.
Vivo’s rapid migration to Kubernetes across multiple data centers required a secure, efficient, and reliable way to manage thousands of nodes, leading them to develop a custom k8s‑operator that streamlines cluster deployment, CI testing, declarative APIs, and automated repair for large‑scale cloud‑native environments.
The article uses a humorous story about two development teams manipulating KLOC defect rates to illustrate Goodhart's law and the McNamara fallacy, then presents a comprehensive set of software quality metrics and guidelines for selecting meaningful measurements that truly improve product quality.
The article presents a comprehensive overview of DevOps quality management, explaining the concepts of left‑shift and right‑shift testing, the role of automation, exploratory testing, and chaos engineering, and offers practical guidance for integrating testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
This article outlines how the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's software development center redesigned its development‑testing environment operations—highlighting key characteristics, practical governance measures, current challenges, and strategic improvements to boost efficiency, automation, and resource utilization.
This article explains how to use Vagrant and VirtualBox to create a reproducible development and testing environment for the Kube-OVN Kubernetes CNI project, including Vagrantfile configuration, provisioning scripts for Docker, Kubernetes tools, Go, and steps to compile, test, and run Kube-OVN with Kind clusters.
Industry experts from Zhejiang Mobile, Bilibili, and Xiaomi discuss how SRE has evolved in the cloud‑native era, sharing concrete frameworks, observability practices, and cost‑focused platforms while emphasizing stability, metrics, on‑call processes, and the need to adapt Google’s model to real‑world product and operational contexts.
This article compiles a comprehensive list of over a hundred Linux, networking, load‑balancing, database, caching, monitoring, container and cloud‑native interview questions, providing candidates with essential knowledge to ace system‑administration and DevOps job interviews.
This article details how Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) tackled rapid product demand and limited R&D resources by designing a unified, enterprise‑level DevOps platform that streamlines continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, improves collaboration, and supports future digital transformation initiatives.
This article explains the differences between deployment and release, defines continuous deployment, and details various deployment and release strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray release, and A/B testing, including technical implementations like feature toggles, feature branches, and abstract branches, with real‑world examples from Facebook.
Chen Yang, a senior DevOps engineer at Bilibili, brings over a decade of database expertise from multinational IT firms and major internet companies, having designed trillion‑scale architectures for billion‑user services, specialized in MySQL, automated and cloud‑native database operations, and holds several patented innovations.
This article examines the rise of low‑code platforms, the challenges of integrating ProCode and LowCode workflows, proposes ideal and lightweight hybrid development pipelines, and outlines a unified front‑end strategy that reduces complexity while maintaining flexibility across branches and releases.
This article describes how ShouQianBa standardized its API gateway stack by adopting Apache APISIX, detailing the reasons for selection, custom plugin development, logging enhancements, a bespoke management platform, version‑upgrade strategy, deployment model, and the resulting improvements in reliability and developer productivity.
This article explains how to create a nested Kubernetes cluster (VMLC) inside a pod using SmartIDE, covering the motivations, required tools, Azure AKS setup, sysbox runtime installation, VMLC deployment, VS Code WebIDE and hybrid SSH access, building and deploying a Dapr sample, and clean‑up procedures.
This article examines the rapid growth of DevOps integrated platforms in China, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of existing tools, outlines essential capabilities for an enterprise DevOps platform, and proposes a future architecture centered on lightweight IDE integration, containerized services, and comprehensive measurement.
This article summarizes Professor Niu Xiaoling’s GNSEC 2022 keynote, outlining the XOps framework and its five pillars—XOps, DevOps research and operational efficiency metrics, AIOps, BizDevOps, and FinOps—while detailing their drivers, maturity models, implementation examples, and the role of standards in guiding enterprises toward intelligent, cost‑effective, and business‑value‑focused software delivery.
This article details how Latin America’s largest fintech bank Nubank adopted Kubernetes to overcome immutable‑infrastructure challenges, accelerate deployments, improve developer experience, and achieve roughly a 30% increase in cost efficiency while scaling its services across regions.
Zadig Toolkit, a VS Code extension from KodeRover, lets developers view and manage Zadig environments, restart services, switch images, debug remotely, and sync code without committing or building images, providing step‑by‑step guidance on installation, configuration, remote debugging, and service inspection.
This comprehensive guide walks you through installing, configuring, and upgrading the cloud‑native continuous delivery platform Zadig—including MySQL setup, Helm chart deployment, GitLab integration, environment and pipeline management, and optional SonarQube code scanning—providing practical commands and screenshots for end‑to‑end implementation.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to Docker, covering its core concepts, differences from virtual machines, installation methods, Dockerfile syntax, building and running a Vue.js application in a container, publishing images, and recommended best‑practice tips for containerization.
This comprehensive guide clarifies the differences between deployment and release, explores continuous deployment concepts, details various deployment and release strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray, and A/B testing, and examines supporting technologies like feature toggles and branch‑by‑abstraction, illustrated with a Facebook case study.
This comprehensive tutorial walks readers through Docker fundamentals, compares virtual machines with containers, explains core Docker concepts, demonstrates installation on macOS, shows how to build and run a Docker image for a Vue project, and provides best‑practice tips for containerized deployments.
This article explains the importance of tool platforms for DevOps, outlines the DevOps Capability Maturity Model's system and tool technical requirements—covering project management, work item management, planning, documentation, knowledge, team collaboration, metrics, and portfolio management—and provides guidance on selecting suitable tools.
This article introduces the Deploy Dashboard plugin for Jenkins, explains how to visualize deployment status across environments, shows step‑by‑step instructions for adding versions, creating the dashboard view, adding deployment buttons, and provides pipeline code examples for seamless CI/CD integration.
This guide explains why Kubernetes dropped dockershim, clarifies OCI and CRI standards, compares Docker, containerd and cri‑o runtimes, and provides a step‑by‑step procedure—including node draining, Docker removal, kernel tuning, cri‑o installation, kubelet reconfiguration, and verification—to successfully migrate a cluster from Docker to cri‑o before upgrading to version 1.24.
After a year of cross‑BU experimentation, the Tianji precision testing platform was built to centralize coverage data, automate incremental analysis, and provide actionable insights, resulting in higher test coverage, faster release gating, and measurable productivity gains for both developers and QA teams.
The article explains why and how to store external libraries and tools in a private artifact repository, isolate builds from the internet, and verify build stability by testing offline pipelines, emphasizing the importance of managing dependencies for reliable DevOps processes.
The article explains how technical professionals promoted to management can apply quantitative measurement and systematic optimization—illustrated with an image‑recognition service case and a DevOps defect‑resolution workflow—to improve resource utilization, reduce bottlenecks, and align R&D processes with lean, value‑stream principles.
This article outlines essential Kubernetes security principles based on the 4C model, discusses best practices for clusters, containers, and code, and reviews several open‑source tools such as Kubescape, kube‑bench, Terrascan, kube‑hunter, and Anchore for assessing and improving cluster security.
This cheat sheet provides a concise reference of essential Git commands—including configuration, repository creation, staging, committing, branching, remote handling, and restoration—along with brief explanations and code examples for developers to quickly perform version‑control tasks.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, covering its definition, history, differences from monolithic development, key characteristics, comparison with SOA, practical implementation steps, common design patterns, advantages and disadvantages, and essential considerations for successful adoption.
This tutorial explains how to create and configure a Jenkins shared library, organize its directory structure, set it up in Jenkins global settings, and reference it from a Jenkinsfile to simplify pipeline management across multiple projects.
This article explains how Jenkins Pipeline as Code replaces manual freestyle job configurations with version‑controlled code, streamlining bulk modifications, improving consistency across multiple projects, and highlighting best practices for managing complex Jenkinsfile setups.
This article explains what test reports are, outlines their essential components and common types, discusses the challenges of handling large and fast‑moving test data in modern agile and DevOps environments, and describes how continuous testing and dashboards can improve software release decisions.
This article shares the author’s experience and reflections on software architecture, covering its definition, iterative evolution, closed‑loop feedback design, microservice adoption, the impact of organizational culture, and the mindset and soft skills required of modern architects.
This comprehensive guide explains Docker's core concepts, advantages over traditional VMs, installation steps, essential commands, Dockerfile instructions, image management, storage volumes, and networking modes, providing practical examples and code snippets for effective container deployment on Linux systems.
This article explains how developers and operators should prepare a Go‑based service for Kubernetes by implementing health‑check endpoints, graceful shutdown handling, metrics exposure, tracing integration, standardized logging, and operational best practices such as stateless design, high availability, self‑healing, and HTTPS configuration.
The article explains how quantifying and measuring both technical systems and organizational processes can reveal inefficiencies, using a concrete image‑processing service example to illustrate how workflow analysis, metric collection, and architectural redesign lead to resource savings and how the same principles apply to DevOps and R&D management.
This article reviews how leading Chinese telecom operators adopted the nationally‑backed DevOps Capability Maturity Model to assess and improve their IT performance, detailing project counts, specific case studies, measurable gains, and the model’s broader industry impact.
This article reviews how leading Chinese enterprises such as Tencent, Quark, and Baoxin Software applied the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing their assessment results, continuous delivery improvements, and security‑risk achievements to enhance IT performance and support digital transformation.
This article presents a comprehensive framework called the "Golden Triangle" for improving software development efficiency, detailing three interrelated components—efficiency practices, an integrated platform, and data‑driven metrics—along with their goals, value propositions, classification, and practical implementation recommendations.
This article reviews how leading Chinese securities companies adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing assessment results across dozens of projects, the improvements in delivery speed, test coverage and security, and the broader impact on digital transformation in the financial sector.
This article examines how major Chinese insurers applied the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model to evaluate and improve their IT operations, detailing three flagship projects, their architectural innovations, continuous delivery achievements, and the broader impact on digital transformation in the insurance sector.
To overcome unsynchronized development, slow deployments, and fragmented testing after moving its document library to the cloud, the team built a Kubernetes‑driven environment‑management platform that automatically provisions containerized sub‑environments on demand, scaling to thousands, cutting costs, boosting security, and enabling rapid, parallel testing for hundreds of projects.
This guide compiles 24 practical Docker troubleshooting scenarios—from storage migration and disk space errors to network configuration, NFS mounts, and container management—providing clear problem descriptions, step‑by‑step solutions, and ready‑to‑use command snippets for Linux environments.
This article reviews how leading Chinese banks have adopted the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model to improve IT efficiency, detailing assessment statistics, specific project implementations across continuous delivery, technical operation, security, and tooling, and highlighting the overall impact on digital transformation.
This article reviews how major Chinese joint‑stock banks have adopted the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing the number of evaluated projects, each bank’s implementation experiences across continuous delivery, security, and toolchain standards, and the overall impact on IT efficiency and business agility.
This guide demonstrates how to configure GitLab and Jenkins to trigger a pipeline automatically after a merge request is merged, using Jenkins' Generic Webhook plugin, including job setup, webhook URL generation, GitLab project configuration, data analysis, and pipeline script examples.
This article outlines eight practical recommendations for boosting R&D efficiency, from tackling pain points and adopting a global perspective to ensuring continuous improvement, avoiding vanity metrics, and embracing a service mindset, emphasizing measurable outcomes and the importance of using the platform yourself.
Docker Desktop, the integrated Docker IDE, has finally been released for Linux, offering the same experience as on macOS and Windows, while also introducing Docker Extensions, a new SDK, and sparking debate over recent subscription pricing changes that affect enterprise users.
This article examines how major Chinese state-owned banks adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing assessment numbers, project implementations, cloud‑native architectures, cultural shifts, and measurable improvements in delivery speed, quality, and security across multiple banking initiatives.
Amid China’s digital transformation, leading banks have adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, completing dozens of assessments that improve IT performance, integrate resources, and provide valuable industry benchmarks for continuous delivery, technical operations, and security management.
This article explains Baidu's journey from traditional CI pipelines to a fully automated Pipeline‑as‑Code system called Tekes Actions, compares Jenkins and GitHub Actions DSLs, and details the architecture, runner, and workflow orchestration that enable customizable, reusable pipelines across product lines.
This article explains the benefits and difficulties of microservice governance, presents a three‑stage business case study with concrete mitigation tactics, outlines the four cloud‑adoption phases, and discusses efficiency, stability, and cost challenges when operating microservices in cloud‑native scenarios.
The article examines how Air China leveraged cloud‑native technologies to overcome traditional app development bottlenecks, achieve daily releases, handle massive 24/7 traffic, and dramatically improve performance, security, and passenger experience in the highly competitive airline industry.
This guide explains how Nacos 2.1.0 introduces built‑in configuration encryption, how to add encryption plugins on the server, and how to mark configuration entries with a special prefix so that they are automatically stored and transmitted as ciphertext.
This collection presents five technical articles covering the Spock unit‑testing framework, reasons why automation testing struggles, backend automated testing with continuous deployment, AI‑based UI defect detection, and practical automation of HarmonyOS applications, offering valuable insights for developers and testers.
This guide explains how to retrieve and change the temporary GitLab root password generated during a Terraform deployment, outlines two recovery methods—including using the password‑reset feature and directly updating the password through the GitLab Rails console with example code.
Learn how to install Node.js, set up the open‑source NginxConfig visual tool, generate Nginx configuration files for static and dynamic proxies, and deploy them on a Linux server, all with step‑by‑step commands, code snippets, and practical examples.
The Fourth Techo TVP Developer Conference highlighted current cloud‑native adoption, FinOps cost‑optimization, distributed‑cloud strategies, and maturity models on Day 1, then showcased practical best‑practice case studies—from automotive edge computing to service‑mesh migration, hybrid‑cloud PaaS evolution, observability standards, and high‑performance API‑gateway deployments—on Day 2.
Linking code commit messages to requirement and task IDs not only standardizes commit information but also enables measurable development assets, finer quality and risk control, and tangible benefits for engineers, ultimately improving overall R&D efficiency through automated workflow integration and data-driven insights.
The article explains ITIL 4’s Service Value System, detailing its seven interrelated guiding principles—Focus on Value, Start Where You Are, Progress Iteratively with Feedback, Collaborate and Promote Visibility, Think and Work Holistically, Keep it Simple and Practical, and Optimize and Automate—and shows how they jointly create stakeholder value, illustrated with real‑world examples from the Youzan e‑commerce platform.
This article explains the concept of chaos engineering, its six key benefits, the design of a full‑lifecycle chaos platform, fault‑atom categories, experiment orchestration, risk control, automation, red‑blue war games, and practical experiments that helped Tencent Games improve system reliability while cutting operational costs.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to continuous delivery, covering its definition, consensus and management mechanisms, required infrastructure, configuration and testing strategies, trunk and local development practices, six‑step commit workflow, code review, metrics, DevOps concepts, and information traceability.
This article provides a comprehensive guide for startup founders on selecting languages, components, processes, and tools to design and implement a complete backend technology stack, covering everything from project management and DNS to databases, monitoring, and deployment.
This article explains a lightweight environment‑coloring solution for microservice architectures that binds color tags to instances, propagates them through HTTP headers, and uses dynamic routing to isolate test environments, reduce configuration overhead, and improve troubleshooting while supporting both HTTP and WZP protocols.
This article presents a comprehensive framework—the R&D efficiency “golden triangle”—that links efficiency practices, an integrated platform, and data‑driven measurement into a reinforcing loop, and offers concrete goals, value propositions, classifications, and implementation advice for each pillar.
This article explains the core principles of DevOps, its historical development, the advantages it brings to software delivery, and practical steps for organizations to adopt a collaborative DevOps culture between development and operations teams.
Softtone Power’s iPaaS technology platform successfully passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment conducted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, with its CTO and chief architect discussing the project’s architecture, the motivations for joining the evaluation, the tangible efficiency gains, and future DevOps initiatives.
Beijing Gas’s Tongzhou Call Center project passed the Level 2 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized processes, a cloud‑native tool platform, and agile practices dramatically improved delivery speed, quality, and digital transformation across the organization.
The CAICT’s fourth‑batch DevOps assessment reveals that China Zhongjin Wealth’s platform passed the Excellent level, showcasing how standardized pipelines, tool empowerment, and the DevOps Capability Maturity Model dramatically boost delivery speed, quality, and competitiveness across major enterprises.
