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.
CICC’s four flagship platforms passed the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology’s Level‑3 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing dramatic improvements in delivery speed, automation, and quality while illustrating how standardized DevOps practices can drive digital transformation in large enterprises.
The 2022 GNSEC Global Next‑Generation Software Engineering Summit announced the 17th batch of DevOps Continuous Delivery and the 4th batch of System and Tools assessment results, listing dozens of leading Chinese enterprises that passed the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model across multiple industry sectors.
This article explains how to perform a systematic DevOps assessment by first understanding the business, system shape, scale and quality, then examining team organization, branch strategies and the six‑stage software delivery value stream, and finally diving into detailed activities such as code changes, testing, integration and release.
This article explains how adopting a DevOps culture—by forming true functional teams, shortening release cycles, and aligning shared goals—can resolve the conflicting objectives of developers and operations, enhance communication, and enable more frequent, higher‑quality software deliveries.
This article walks through the most common performance‑monitoring stack—JMeter, node_exporter, Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Grafana—explaining how to configure backend listeners, send metrics, store them, and build real‑time dashboards while highlighting code snippets and query examples.
This article introduces the DevOps culture and systematically categorizes a wide range of DevOps tools—including source‑code management, CI/CD, containers, cloud providers, automation, monitoring, project management, and secret management—to help teams improve productivity and collaboration.
A comprehensive, step‑by‑step checklist guides teams through documentation, application design, security, CI/CD, Kubernetes configuration, monitoring, testing, and 24/7 support to reliably run web services with HTTP APIs in production on Kubernetes.
This guide walks through the complete process of adding a Jenkins agent, from creating the node in the Jenkins UI and installing Java and Git on the remote machine to copying SSH keys, verifying connectivity, and testing the agent’s operation.
This article explains how to use Prometheus to create a precise, end‑to‑end alerting system that shortens detection and diagnosis time, integrates logs and metrics, routes alerts to the right owners, and prevents overwhelming alert storms in production environments.
This guide compiles twenty‑four common Docker problems—from oversized storage directories and disk‑space shortages to network misconfigurations, NFS lock errors, and container startup failures—providing clear explanations, step‑by‑step commands, and configuration tweaks to resolve each issue efficiently.
The article analyzes how applying cumulative flow diagram insights, tightening iteration commitments, and establishing standardized, automated SIT/UAT environments dramatically reduced risks, overtime, and untested deployments in a multi‑team microservice platform, highlighting the importance of testability and operational readiness for continuous delivery.
The article shows how technical leaders promoted to management can apply quantitative analysis and systematic measurement—illustrated through an image‑recognition service optimization—to identify bottlenecks, redesign processes, and boost overall team efficiency in software development.
Ephemeral containers are temporary debugging pods in Kubernetes that lack resource guarantees and cannot restart automatically; this guide explains their differences, enabling the feature via kube-apiserver and kubelet flags, creating a sample Tomcat pod, adding an Ephemeral container with kubectl debug, and updating it using raw API calls.
This article walks through using Jenkins as Kubesphere's pipeline engine, installing the Tekton client plugin, configuring RBAC, writing a multi‑branch Jenkinsfile, and troubleshooting common errors to enable seamless Jenkins‑Tekton integration for CI/CD workflows.
This article explains how integrating Alibaba Cloud's Log Service (SLS) with the Codeup code‑hosting platform creates a seamless log‑to‑source link, enabling developers and operators to quickly pinpoint problematic code in microservice environments without manual repository setup or local downloads.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of DevOps tools, explaining their role in automating software development and operations, and presents a curated list of popular tools with key features, download links, and guidance on choosing the right solution for your team.
DeWu’s international e‑commerce team adopts shift‑left, business‑driven testing and a Java‑SpringBoot‑JUnit5 automation framework with continuous coverage analysis, moving tests earlier in the lifecycle to deliver rapid feedback, cut manual effort, and ensure high‑quality, efficient releases aligned with business value.
This article provides a comprehensive list of frequently used Git commands, including remote management, aliases, repository creation, committing, history inspection, branch and tag handling, merging, rebasing, and configuration, with clear Chinese annotations for each operation.
This article introduces Dagger, a DevOps platform that uses the CUE language to define CI/CD pipelines, provides step‑by‑step installation instructions for macOS and other systems, demonstrates a Todo app pipeline example, explains pipeline components and client interactions, and shows how to build container images with Dagger.
This comprehensive guide explains Docker's core concepts, advantages over traditional virtual machines, installation steps, essential commands, Dockerfile directives, image import/export, storage volumes, and networking options, providing a practical roadmap for container-based development and operations.
In this recap of the sixth CNBPA Technical Practice Salon, senior product manager Wen Lei and architect Ren Yazhou answer audience questions on ensuring container security, Kubernetes design considerations, risk assessment methods, and the choice between open‑source and commercial cloud‑native security solutions, emphasizing a security‑left approach throughout the DevOps lifecycle.
This guide explains why CI/CD is essential for modern development, outlines its key benefits, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for automating Serverless deployments using GitHub Actions, Jenkinsfile, and related tooling, including code samples and secret configuration.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step Terraform tutorial for Alibaba Cloud, covering RAM account setup, environment variables, version configuration, VPC and security group creation, ECS provisioning, web service deployment, DNS addition, output handling, and resource cleanup, complete with code snippets and command illustrations.
In this interview, GitHub veteran Michael Kaufmann shares personal productivity hacks, discusses the platform's evolution under Microsoft, highlights powerful features like the CLI and Codespaces, and envisions GitHub's role as a cloud‑centric development hub.
This article explains DevOps as a cultural, organizational, and technical shift that unifies development, operations, and quality assurance, outlines its benefits such as faster delivery and improved reliability, describes key practices like CI/CD, multi‑environment deployments, early failure detection, rollback, policy enforcement and observability, and discusses its potential drawbacks and considerations.
This article analyzes the digital transformation of Chinese internet companies, explains DevOps concepts and lifecycle, evaluates core CI/CD and monitoring components, and presents a maturity‑based model with tailored toolchain recommendations for startups, mid‑size firms, and large enterprises.
Observability measures a system’s current state using telemetry such as logs, metrics, and traces, enabling IT, DevOps, and SRE teams to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in complex multi‑cloud environments while delivering better performance, reliability, and business outcomes.
This article outlines twelve essential best‑practice steps—including updating to the latest stable release, enforcing PodSecurityPolicy, using namespaces, applying network policies, and hardening API server, scheduler, controller‑manager, etcd, and kubelet settings—to comprehensively secure a Kubernetes cluster.
This comprehensive guide explains Docker's core concepts, advantages over traditional VMs, architecture, essential commands, Dockerfile syntax, image management, storage volumes, and networking modes, providing step‑by‑step instructions for installing, configuring, and operating containers on Linux systems.
This article outlines the three‑stage evolution of software architecture—from early monolithic MVC systems, through growth‑phase optimizations with CDN, load balancing, and caching, to fully distributed cloud‑native designs featuring microservices, elastic scaling, DevOps pipelines, and unified configuration, illustrating key technologies and best practices.
This article walks through converting a Jenkinsfile‑based pipeline to a Tekton Pipeline, adding Helm‑based deployment tasks, integrating SonarQube scanning, handling multi‑branch releases across different namespaces, and demonstrates the full PipelineRun execution with code snippets and images.
Learn how to create a complete Helm chart for deploying the Ghost blogging platform on Kubernetes, covering chart scaffolding, templating with values, handling multiple environments, ingress version compatibility, persistence, customizations, and sharing the chart via a GitHub Pages repository.
This guide explains why backing up GitHub projects to Gitee is important amid political interference and provides step‑by‑step instructions for migrating existing repositories, handling future code changes, and automating synchronization using scripts or GitHub Actions.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker's overall architecture, detailing the roles of Docker Client, Daemon, Engine, Registry, Graph, drivers, Libcontainer, and containers, and explains how these components interact to manage images, networking, storage, and execution within a C/S model.
This article provides a detailed guide to structuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Java projects, covering job templates for building, testing, code analysis, artifact handling, and Kubernetes deployment, along with variable definitions, workflow rules, and stage configurations to enable flexible and automated DevOps workflows.
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, and the pros and cons of adopting microservices in modern software systems.
The fourth‑edition Cloud‑Native Technology Survey (2021‑2022) analyzes how banks, insurers, securities firms and payment providers adopt containers, Kubernetes, micro‑services and hybrid‑cloud solutions, revealing adoption rates, pain points, security concerns and strategic recommendations for the financial industry’s digital transformation.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Podman, an open‑source container runtime that runs without a daemon or root privileges, compares it with Docker, explains its architecture, and presents essential commands, deployment steps, configuration files, volume handling, and user‑namespace considerations for Linux environments.
This guide demonstrates how to use various Ansible Windows modules—such as win_ping, raw, win_copy, win_unzip, win_service, win_command, win_file, win_user, win_shell, and win_reboot—to retrieve network information, transfer and unzip files, manage services, manipulate files, create users, and reboot remote Windows hosts.
This article presents a detailed case study of the DODB digital operations platform, comparing historical and current code metrics, identifying code, project‑management and developer issues, and outlining standards, tools and refactoring practices that significantly boosted development efficiency.
Building a strong technical culture in engineering teams requires top‑down commitment to respect engineers, fostering knowledge sharing, automating tools, hiring curious innovators, and rewarding experimentation, so that contributions are valued, innovation thrives, talent is retained, and teams become more productive and satisfied.
This guide explains the fundamentals of CI/CD, the benefits of automation, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on configuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including .gitlab-ci.yml syntax, job and stage definitions, runner installation, manual approvals, and scheduled executions using cron syntax.
This article outlines nine key DevOps metrics and KPIs—including the four DORA indicators and five additional measures—explaining how they help teams monitor performance, improve delivery speed, ensure quality, and maintain reliable, high‑availability applications.
The article explains how Infrastructure as Code and GitOps address common cloud‑migration challenges by automating resource provisioning, ensuring environment consistency, reducing manual effort and errors, and highlights tools like Terraform while noting industry trends and a brief promotional note.
This article explains the fundamentals of DevOps, outlines the full lifecycle including CI/CD and monitoring, compares popular tools for code hosting, pipelines, service discovery and observability, and provides tailored toolchain recommendations for startups, mid‑size and large enterprises based on maturity and scale.
This guide explains how to obtain the latest stable Spinnaker version, run a GitHub Actions pipeline that pushes Docker images to Docker Hub, retrieve the resulting Spinnaker configuration files, and provides links to a detailed Spinnaker continuous‑delivery tutorial and QR‑code access.
This article presents the Chinese DevOps Capability Maturity Model, showcases eight leading companies—including Tencent, Baoxin Software, and Huairong Technology—that have been evaluated, details their project outcomes, and explains how the model guides digital transformation and IT operational improvement across industries.
This article examines how three leading Chinese insurance companies used the nationally‑backed DevOps Capability Maturity Model to evaluate and improve their IT operations, detailing project architectures, cloud‑native implementations, continuous‑delivery results, and the broader significance of the DevOps standard.
This guide explains why backing up GitHub projects to Gitee is important, details the one‑click import for existing repositories, and provides three methods—adding a remote, configuring a push source, and using GitHub Actions—to keep future code synchronized automatically.
This article explains why automation testing is essential for modern software projects, compares it with manual testing, outlines common test types, offers strategic guidance on frameworks and tool selection, and explores emerging trends such as AI and RPA shaping the future of testing.
This article outlines a three‑step framework—understanding, managing, and preventing—to effectively troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments, explains how to leverage monitoring, observability, and incident‑response tools at each stage, and offers practical tool recommendations for modern cloud‑native environments.
This article reviews how leading Chinese telecom operators adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing 17 evaluated projects across companies, the improvements achieved in continuous delivery, technical operations, and tooling, and the broader impact on IT efficiency and digital transformation.
This article reviews how major Chinese joint‑stock banks have adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing assessment numbers, case studies of each bank's DevOps implementation, and the model’s standards and industry impact.
Amid a nationwide digital transformation push, Chinese banks such as Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Baixin, and others have leveraged the China Information and Communication Research Institute's DevOps Capability Maturity Model to assess and improve their IT efficiency, team integration, and continuous delivery practices, providing valuable industry insights.
This article explains the most important DevOps metrics—such as deployment frequency, lead time, automated test pass rate, change failure rate, MTTR, and others—and how tracking them helps teams improve software delivery speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
This article outlines how major Chinese banks have adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, presenting assessment counts across state‑owned, joint‑stock, and city commercial banks, summarizing the model’s standards, evaluation domains, and providing contact details for further inquiries.
This article reviews how major Chinese state‑owned banks applied the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology’s DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing assessment numbers, case studies of e‑life, AI advisory, mobile banking, and cloud‑native platforms, and highlighting the operational and security benefits achieved.
This article details China Merchants Bank’s multi‑year, value‑driven lean transformation—describing the three major challenges of large‑scale digital change, the 3‑1‑2 framework (three steps, one integrated system, two key tools), the 4+1 management model, the 6+2 methodology, and the practical outcomes achieved through the LeanStar platform and a dedicated consulting team.
This article introduces Kubernetes, the open‑source container‑orchestration platform, and explains its core concepts—including Pods, Namespaces, Nodes, Services, Volumes, PersistentVolumes, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Ingress, Jobs, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, Service Accounts, Secrets, ConfigMaps, and Resource Quotas—along with common kubectl commands for managing each component.
This article explains why PHP dominates web development, outlines the operational burdens of traditional LAMP/LNMP stacks, and shows how serverless Function‑as‑a‑Service platforms—especially Alibaba Cloud's Custom Runtime—enable PHP applications to run without managing servers, scale elastically, and simplify deployment with practical examples like WordPress.
This article introduces Podman, explains how to install it on CentOS, demonstrates pulling and running Nginx, MySQL, and a SpringBoot application, compares Podman with Docker, and shows how to manage containers visually with Cockpit, providing a practical alternative to Docker.
This article presents a comic series that visually explains Kubernetes fundamentals and demonstrates how to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines on the platform, offering a concise, illustrated guide for developers and DevOps engineers.
This article traces the development of DevOps, explains how its evolution into DevSecOps integrates security early in the software lifecycle, outlines the resulting benefits of faster, cheaper, and safer delivery, and discusses the technical, cultural, and organizational challenges that must be overcome for successful adoption.
The article examines post‑COVID‑19 remote work trends, highlighting the growing importance of cloud migration, DevOps, AI‑assisted development, low‑code platforms, and practical management techniques to boost productivity and employee well‑being in a permanently distributed workforce.
This comprehensive guide explains what GitLab CI is, how to configure shared or custom runners with Docker, register them, create and write a .gitlab-ci.yml file using YAML syntax, and demonstrates basic and advanced pipeline demos with full code examples and images.
This article explains how ByteDance's distributed compilation and build caching solution dramatically reduces compile times for large iOS projects by analyzing dependency bottlenecks, employing distributed builds, caching mechanisms, and various optimization techniques such as inverted indexes and cross-task caches.
This article explains how to perform rolling, blue‑green, and canary (gray) releases in Kubernetes, focusing on implementing canary deployments with the ingress-nginx controller using specific annotations, demonstrating weight‑based and header‑based scenarios, providing full YAML manifests, CI/CD pipeline designs, and recommendations for automated rollouts.
This guide explains the concepts, configuration steps, Jenkinsfile example, webhook setup, testing procedures, and troubleshooting tips for implementing a Git‑based Jenkins multibranch pipeline that automates CI/CD workflows using pull‑request and branch discovery.
The panel discusses how microservices have changed over the past ten years, covering evolving definitions, common anti‑patterns, the challenges of distributed transactions, Kubernetes' influence on architecture, organizational impacts, and future trends such as application‑centric models and GitOps.
This article explains the fundamental differences between Vagrant and Docker, compares virtual machines and containers across isolation, resource usage, startup time and image size, and outlines when to choose Vagrant for VM management versus Docker for rapid application development and deployment.
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, parameter definitions, and example Jenkinsfile scripts for various pipeline setups.
This article explains the rationale behind Dockerizing internal service websites, outlines principles for creating stateless and self‑contained images, compares build‑time approaches, critiques a flawed Dockerfile with detailed issue analysis, and presents an improved Dockerfile along with practical deployment guidelines.
This article explains what Vagrant is, outlines its development history, provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing and using it, compares it with traditional virtual‑machine workflows, and highlights its advantages for creating reproducible development environments.
This article details how Good Doctor Online integrated and optimized the open-source IAST tool within its security development lifecycle, covering architecture, performance enhancements, RPC adaptation, CI/CD pipeline integration, and real-world deployment results.
This article reviews seven Docker alternatives—Podman, LXD, containerd, Buildah, BuildKit, Kaniko, and RunC—detailing their architectures, key differences, security models, and typical use cases for developers and DevOps teams seeking flexible, daemon‑less or Kubernetes‑friendly container solutions.
The article outlines five unconventional performance indicators—commit‑to‑deploy time, build time, queue time, master‑branch health, and engineering overhead—explaining their meanings, measurement methods, cost implications, and why CTOs need to monitor them to improve software delivery speed and quality.
This article provides a comprehensive, data‑driven overview of front‑end technology trends from 2021 to 2022, covering programming language popularity, framework adoption, build tools, low‑code platforms, AI‑assisted development, cross‑platform solutions, serverless architecture, DevOps, 5G impacts, WebAssembly, and future directions for developers.
This article explains the fundamentals of microservices, illustrates them with an Amazon product‑listing example, compares microservices to containers, outlines when to adopt microservices, discusses their advantages and disadvantages, and describes how Kubernetes supports microservice architectures.
The article explains why placing databases inside Docker containers is generally unsuitable, outlining seven major issues—including data safety, performance, networking, statefulness, resource isolation, cloud platform incompatibility, and environment requirements—while also offering practical mitigation strategies.
In 2021, Xinwang Bank’s digital-native team tackled tight deadlines, tool migrations, personnel shifts, and intense debates to successfully achieve a Level‑3 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment for its distributed consumer‑credit core system, demonstrating how coordinated effort and containerization can boost operational excellence.
This step‑by‑step tutorial explains how to upgrade a Kubernetes cluster from version 1.22 to 1.23 using the hard‑way approach, covering prerequisites, master and worker node procedures, package handling, and verification commands to ensure a successful upgrade.
Discover the most popular Kubernetes management solutions—including K9s, Rancher, Dashboard, Helm, Kubespray, Lens, and WKSctl—detailing their features, deployment options, and how they streamline cluster monitoring, scaling, and security for cloud-native environments and improve operational efficiency.
This guide explains why IPVS outperforms iptables for large Kubernetes clusters, then walks through installing ipvsadm, loading kernel modules on master and worker nodes, configuring kube-proxy to use IPVS, cleaning iptables rules, and verifying network and DNS functionality with a BusyBox pod.
