This article examines why many enterprises struggle to adopt containers and Kubernetes, outlines the four main sources of complexity, and presents a range of open‑source tools, managed services, serverless options, and practical guidance to help teams choose the most suitable solution.
A group of e‑commerce engineers share their real‑world experiences on selecting technologies, designing architectures, handling rapid growth, and avoiding common mistakes when building a new online store from scratch, offering practical guidance on infrastructure, DevOps, and team organization.
This article introduces Podman, an open‑source container runtime that runs without a daemon or root privileges, compares its architecture and features with Docker, and provides detailed instructions for installation, configuration, common commands, image management, volume handling, and user‑namespace setups on Linux.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Podman, explaining its architecture, key differences from Docker, common commands, installation steps, configuration details, and practical usage examples for managing containers, images, volumes, and rootless operation on Linux systems.
This guide walks you through installing JumpServer—a bastion host solution that adds permission control, session monitoring, and audit logging to remote server access—by setting up MariaDB and Redis, configuring Docker, generating secret keys, running the JumpServer container, and configuring users, groups, assets, and permissions.
Learn how to deploy a Redis cluster on Kubernetes by using a StatefulSet with a headless Service, configuring persistent storage, creating ConfigMaps, initializing the cluster with redis-cli, and exposing it via a regular Service, complete with step‑by‑step commands and YAML examples.
China Post Savings Bank’s three core systems passed the Level 3 DevOps Continuous Delivery assessment, showcasing leading domestic capabilities, while senior leaders discuss the bank’s DevOps evolution, measurable improvements, future DevSecOps plans, and the broader industry standards driving these results.
This article examines the challenges faced by Baidu's search middleware in high‑frequency iteration and complex backend development, and presents the design, implementation, and benefits of the Nimbus low‑code platform—including a graph engine, unified development environment, visual operator composition, automated testing, and intelligent capacity management—to accelerate product innovation while reducing development effort.
This article demonstrates how to use Ansible playbooks and simple shell scripts to identify the CentOS major version and system architecture, while also providing promotional links to related DevOps and Kubernetes tutorials.
Bank of Communications shares its award‑winning DevOps journey, detailing how a Level 3 maturity assessment, agile practices, AI integration, and cross‑department collaboration have driven its digital transformation, improved delivery speed, and positioned it as a leader among state‑owned banks in China.
This article explains why mastering English is essential for developers and then curates a list of high‑quality cloud native podcasts, each with a brief description and link, to help listeners improve their knowledge and keep up with the latest industry trends.
Zhengzhou Bank’s electronic banking system passed the Level 2 security‑operation assessment of the DevSecOps standard, showcasing how standardization, tool empowerment, and a culture of shared security responsibility can elevate a financial institution’s DevOps practices to an advanced domestic level.
The 2021 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum highlighted Zhongtai Securities’ successful DevSecOps assessment, revealing how the company’s online business system met the second‑level security and risk management standards, and sharing detailed insights on cultural, procedural, and technical practices that drove their advanced security maturity.
Anxin Securities' Financial Store System passed the Level 2 DevOps technology‑operations assessment at the 2021 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum, revealing how standardization, tool empowerment, and cross‑team collaboration drive digital transformation in the financial sector.
Zhejiang Mobile’s fault‑center AIOps system passed the first official assessment by China’s CAICT, showcasing advanced AI‑driven IT operations, detailing the evaluation process, interview insights, and the broader AIOps maturity model shaping future intelligent operations.
Guotai Junan Securities became the first securities firm to pass the CAICT DevOps Technical Operations 2+ level assessment, showcasing a comprehensive digital transformation driven by standardization, tool empowerment, and an intelligent operation management platform that enhances cost control, emergency response, and full‑link monitoring across its third‑party transaction gateway system.
GuoXin Securities' GoldSun platform passed the CAICT DevSecOps Level‑2 security and risk management assessment, showcasing how standardization, tool empowerment, and a collaborative DevOps culture can elevate a financial app's security posture to an advanced domestic level.
Zhongyuan Bank’s personal mobile banking project passed the national DevSecOps security and risk management assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, a dedicated security platform, and cultural, procedural, and technical integration can elevate a financial institution’s development lifecycle to an advanced, industry‑leading level.
Ping An Bank’s Starlink DevOps platform was awarded the "industry promotion level" in the first batch evaluation of the China Academy of Information and Communications’ DevOps General Efficiency Measurement Model, highlighting its leading domestic performance and the bank’s commitment to digital governance and fine‑grained R&D efficiency management.
Xinwang Bank’s distributed consumer loan core system passed the CAICT DevOps Level‑3 continuous delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, toolchain integration, and agile development boosted code commits, build frequency, test coverage, and delivery speed, while providing insights into challenges, metrics, and future plans.
This guide explains how beginners and experienced developers can discover, download, install, and run open‑source projects from GitHub, covering release pages, official sites, online demos, Chinese documentation, package managers, services deployment, and troubleshooting tips.
This article explains DevOps by tracing its 2008 origins, summarizing evolving wiki definitions, outlining the business drivers behind its popularity, detailing its three core principles—flow, feedback, and continuous learning—and providing concrete technical practices, organizational patterns, and key takeaways for effective adoption.
Guotai Junan's data center team passed the China Information Communication Research Institute's DevOps technical operations assessment at level 2+, showcasing their digital transformation journey, standardized practices, and concrete improvements in cost, incident, and monitoring capabilities, while sharing insights from senior leaders on future plans and industry impact.
The article reports on Anxin Securities' successful Level‑2 DevOps technology‑operation assessment announced at the 2021 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum, featuring interview highlights from the CIO and operations head, details of the evaluated Financial Store System, and broader industry statistics on DevOps maturity in the securities sector.
Ningbo Bank’s scenario payment system passed the Level 3 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing how standardization, tool empowerment, and agile practices transformed a traditionally waterfall project into a high‑speed, reliable platform, while the bank shares lessons, challenges, and future DevOps plans.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced that China International Capital Corp's (CICC) Tianji DevOps platform achieved an excellent rating in the third‑batch DevOps system and tool assessment, highlighting the platform’s end‑to‑end automation, maturity model phases, and its impact on digital transformation across the financial sector.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology unveiled its DevOps efficiency measurement model, with Baidu’s iReport platform becoming the first to achieve industry‑promotion level certification, and detailed the model’s modules, maturity levels, and practical insights for improving software development performance.
This article details a structured GitLab CI/CD setup using job templates for build, test, code analysis, artifact handling, and Kubernetes deployment, combined with a default-pipeline.yml that defines includes, global variables, workflow rules, stages, and environment‑specific deployment configurations for Java applications.
This guide demonstrates how to automate the installation, configuration, and service management of Nginx across multiple hosts using Ansible roles, detailing environment setup, directory structure, task definitions, and execution commands.
This article examines how small and medium‑size banks can adopt cloud‑native architectures—covering industry pressures, Kubernetes adoption statistics, a 15‑point transformation checklist, maturity models, team‑structure options, and practical selection guidance to achieve efficient, resilient digital transformation.
This article examines the challenges of improving research and development efficiency in digital-era enterprises, presents real-world success and failure cases, outlines the roles of business, tool, coaching, and organizational teams, and offers practical do's and don'ts to achieve sustainable, business‑driven efficiency gains.
This article details Vivo's AI container platform, explaining the design, deployment options, performance tuning, stability measures, and future enhancements of the ingress‑nginx gateway that powers AI services within their Kubernetes clusters.
This article explains how organizations can quickly evaluate CI/CD maturity across projects by using the open‑source CII Best Practices Badge program, customizing scoring rules, and assigning badge levels to guide teams toward high‑quality, secure software delivery.
This article provides step‑by‑step commands for creating Kubernetes pods, pulling images, running simple applications, exposing deployments, checking logs, and managing resources such as scaling, updating images, and viewing pod details, offering a practical guide for verifying network access and basic cluster operations.
This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough of how ZuanZuan uses Jenkins together with the custom Beetle platform to automatically generate jobs, configure config.xml, optimize front‑end builds, manage compile packages, and address Sonar scan performance issues, complete with diagrams and script examples.
This article describes the end‑to‑end process of selecting, designing, building, and deploying a container‑based PaaS platform for an insurance group, covering technology choices, architecture, deployment workflow, observability, monitoring, and the business impact of moving applications to a cloud‑native environment.
The article chronicles Laiye Technology’s journey from early manual on‑premises deployments to a fully automated, Kubernetes‑based private deployment platform, detailing the challenges faced, the incremental optimizations introduced, and the current standardized tools that now serve hundreds of enterprise customers.
In this expert round‑table, senior SRE and DB leaders discuss how operations teams must revamp their management philosophy, processes, knowledge systems, and collaboration models—adopting OKRs, DevOps, AI‑ops, and proactive "left‑shift" practices—to thrive in the cloud‑native landscape.
This article explains Helm’s role in Kubernetes application management, its key benefits such as templating, version control, dependency handling, and how to host Helm charts in a Sonatype Nexus repository and integrate them into a Docker‑based CI/CD pipeline.
Learn how to deploy a Redis cluster on Kubernetes using a StatefulSet and Headless Service, covering problem analysis, key concepts, configuration steps, initialization with redis-cli, and creating services for access, all without persistent volumes for simplicity.
This guide explains Redis AOF persistence settings, including default options, the three synchronization strategies (no, always, everysec), and practical recommendations such as enabling AOF on slaves for critical data while keeping masters free of persistence work.
This article explains why and how to convert Jenkins Freestyle projects to Pipeline jobs, covering trigger mechanisms, global and repository configurations, shell build steps, and a complete scripted pipeline example that automates building, testing, reporting, and email notifications.
This article shares practical standards for Kubernetes operations—from infrastructure choices and application packaging to CI/CD tooling—helping teams reduce complexity, improve reliability, and foster continuous learning and sharing in fast‑moving cloud environments.
This article outlines four practical strategies to accelerate CI/CD pipelines—using a self‑hosted GitLab Runner, caching build dependencies, employing lightweight Alpine images for CI jobs, and conditionally running jobs only when relevant files change—to improve developer efficiency.
This guide outlines six Python advancement directions—full‑stack development, web scraping, data analysis & mining, AI & machine learning, DevOps automation, and testing—detailing essential skills, typical salary ranges, and how each role fits the modern job market.
This article compiles a series of visual skill maps covering DevOps, cloud computing, big data, security, architecture, and development practices, offering engineers a comprehensive roadmap to build and expand their technical knowledge across multiple domains.
GitOps is an automated infrastructure management approach that leverages DevOps best practices such as version control, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines to treat infrastructure as code, enabling declarative, pull‑request‑driven deployments especially in Kubernetes‑centric cloud‑native environments.
This article details FreeWheel’s migration from a decade‑old Ruby monolith to a cloud‑native architecture, explaining cloud‑native fundamentals, the Strangler Pattern, containerization, Kubernetes/EKS orchestration, Istio service‑mesh integration, serverless extensions, and the internal platforms that support the new hybrid system.
This guide walks through cloning the Sentry and Snuba repositories, installing macOS system dependencies, configuring Python and Rust toolchains, launching Docker containers for ClickHouse, Kafka and Redis, running Snuba migrations, and finally starting the dev server to query events via a local UI.
Modern software’s soaring complexity—from monolithic apps to micro‑service, container‑based, cloud‑native ecosystems—is overwhelming developers, forcing them to juggle endless tools, security, and performance demands, while organizations adopt internal platforms and curated “golden paths” to regain control and deliver value efficiently.
The Baidu Tech Salon #95 brought together senior engineers and experts to discuss the importance of engineering capability, China Mobile's DevOps transformation under its "cloud shift" strategy, and innovative approaches to undergraduate software engineering education, offering actionable insights for developers and organizations.
This talk presents ByteDance’s mobile release engineering practices for billion‑DAU apps, detailing challenges, the evolution of their release platform from Jenkins‑based pipelines to a custom distributed system, and solutions for pipeline efficiency, safety, release velocity, and data reliability via artifact libraries.
This tutorial explains Kubernetes deployment strategies—including Rolling Update, Recreate, Blue‑Green, and Canary—detailing their concepts, configuration files, kubectl commands, and best‑practice considerations for reliable, zero‑downtime application releases. It also covers prerequisites, readiness probes, and how to verify rollout status using kubectl.
The article outlines the background, mission, technical choices, and comprehensive features of the Tianyan Quality Platform—an internal testing solution built with Vue and Spring Boot that streamlines API automation, environment management, and DevOps integration across multiple business lines.
The article outlines twenty‑four essential capabilities—including version control, automated deployment, continuous integration, trunk‑based development, test automation, lean management, and cultural practices—that together drive high‑performance software delivery and organizational effectiveness.
Git worktree, a little‑known feature introduced in 2015, lets developers maintain a single repository while simultaneously working on multiple branches—such as feature and hotfix—without costly context switches, large repo clones, or environment reconfiguration, and includes commands for adding, listing, removing, and pruning worktrees.
This article traces the evolution of DevOps from its roots in Toyota Production System and Kanban through Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Lean, and modern extensions like ChatOps, GitOps, FinOps and AiOps, highlighting key milestones and their impact on software delivery practices.
The article examines how Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes have transformed deployment, but also highlights the remaining complexities of cloud‑native development, microservices, and the need for next‑generation tools that seamlessly integrate local processes, containers, and cloud services.
This article chronicles the history of DevOps and its related practices—from the Toyota Production System and Kanban to Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Lean, and modern concepts like ChatOps, GitOps, FinOps and AiOps—highlighting how each milestone shaped today’s software delivery culture.
The 2021‑22 World Quality Report, based on interviews with 1,750 QA leaders across 32 countries, reveals how the pandemic accelerated digital transformation, increased the strategic role of QA in DevOps and Agile, and highlighted AI‑driven testing as a major driver of quality and customer experience.
This guide outlines the key Redis monitoring metrics—including performance, memory, activity, persistence, and error indicators—provides detailed descriptions, command examples, and practical tips for using tools like redis-cli, redis-benchmark, and info commands to effectively track and troubleshoot your Redis instances.
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank’s eight systems passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized processes, tool empowerment, and a unified maturity model can dramatically boost development efficiency, quality, and competitive advantage in the banking sector.
This article provides a detailed, step‑by‑step guide for startups to design and select a complete backend technology stack, covering language choices, components, processes, systemization, and the practical evaluation of tools such as project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, messaging, CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment.
Huatai Securities became the first Chinese securities firm to pass the DevOps Technical Operations 2+ level assessment, sharing detailed interview insights on the project’s high‑availability design, operational improvements, challenges overcome, and future plans for broader technical‑operations transformation.
This article details Bank of Communications' successful DevOps standard assessment, showcasing how its Smart HR and Cross‑border Finance projects reached Level 3 maturity, the interview insights from the project manager, and the broader impact of DevOps practices on banking digital transformation.
The 2021 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai announced the latest DevOps capability maturity assessment results, detailing the enterprises that achieved continuous delivery level 3 and technical operation level 2+, explaining the new 2+ grading, and outlining the DevOps maturity model and its industry adoption.
This article introduces the Kafka AdminClient API, explains its core features and internal threading model, and provides step‑by‑step Java code examples for creating, listing, describing, configuring, updating partitions, and deleting topics in a Kafka cluster.
This guide explains how to use GitHub Packages as a unified package registry and demonstrates step‑by‑step how to configure npm, create a workflow file, and automatically publish a Node.js package to GitHub Packages via GitHub Actions whenever a new release is created.
This article explains how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) drives agile product delivery, enterprise‑level solution deployment, and lean portfolio management by focusing on customer‑centric design, fixed‑frequency development, DevOps pipelines, and coordinated release trains, illustrating each capability with diagrams and practical guidance.
This article explains why organizations adopt the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), describing its two operating models, the benefits such as faster crisis response, increased customer value delivery, and higher product quality, and outlines SAFe’s core capabilities for achieving business agility.
This article explains the concept of canary releases, outlines their advantages and drawbacks, and provides a detailed, command‑line tutorial for performing a canary deployment, monitoring, pausing, resuming, and rolling back a Kubernetes application using kubectl.
This guide explains Jira's planning and tracking features, provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing the Data Center version, details initial configuration, demonstrates project and module creation, and shows how to integrate Jira with Jenkins and GitLab for automated CI/CD workflows.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservices architecture, covering its definition, comparison with monolithic systems, design principles, communication methods, benefits, drawbacks, governance, and practical considerations such as DevOps, containers, and real‑world case studies.
This article examines Baidu's Tekes platform—its evolution from automated component publishing to a full‑stack mobile DevOps service—detailing its architecture, workflow engine, event‑driven pipeline, and how it boosts development efficiency across hundreds of repositories and product lines.
This guide demonstrates how to create a Docker image for Apache Tomcat on CentOS by preparing a Dockerfile that installs JDK, adds Tomcat binaries, sets an ENTRYPOINT to start the server, and exposes port 8080 for containerized deployment.
This article explains the concept of canary (gray) releases, demonstrates how to perform rolling updates and precise traffic splitting in Kubernetes, and shows how to achieve fine‑grained canary deployments using Istio’s VirtualService and DestinationRule resources with practical YAML and kubectl examples.
This article explains what bug tracking is, outlines a typical bug‑tracking workflow, describes the elements of a good bug report, lists criteria for choosing a bug‑tracking tool, and reviews twelve popular tools with their features, integrations, pricing, advantages and disadvantages, concluding with recommendations for teams of all sizes.
The article explains test orchestration as a coordinated, automated testing workflow that enhances software quality and delivery speed by eliminating manual errors, integrating with CI/CD pipelines, and leveraging tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Kubernetes to streamline testing processes across DevOps environments.
This article explains the principles of agile development, outlines typical agile workflows and case studies, and then provides a comprehensive overview of the cloud native technology stack, including application definition, orchestration, runtime, provisioning, platform, observability, and serverless components, illustrating how modern IT teams can transition from traditional practices.
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Dockerfile on a CentOS host, build an Nginx image, run the container, and verify its operation, while highlighting the importance of specifying an entrypoint or CMD in the Dockerfile.
This article explains how to effectively use static and dynamic environment variables in Kubernetes, including explicit definitions, implicit inclusion, Helm injection, and ConfigMap-based approaches, to streamline operations, reduce complexity, and improve microservice configuration and logging.
This guide explains how to install Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon M1 Macs, covers required Rosetta compatibility, shows the Docker Desktop features, demonstrates running containers and a Redis instance, and discusses resource settings and Kubernetes support, providing a practical end‑to‑end workflow.
This guide explains the blue‑green deployment concept, outlines its pros and cons, and provides a step‑by‑step Kubernetes tutorial—including image loading, namespace creation, deployment manifests, service configuration, and traffic switching—to achieve zero‑downtime releases.
iQIYI integrated JaCoCo with its DevOps pipeline, using Git diff and Jira‑linked branch naming to automatically generate fine‑grained coverage reports at incremental, branch, and requirement levels, enforcing 90 % thresholds that lifted backend service coverage from under 70 % to over 90 % and markedly improved reliability.
The article explains how agile development and DevOps extend beyond coding to cover the entire application lifecycle, how containers and Kubernetes enable seamless collaboration between developers and operations, and why microservice architecture and Conway's law are essential for building scalable, cloud‑native systems.
Sealer is an open-source Alibaba tool for packaging, delivering, and running distributed applications as cluster images, simplifying Kubernetes cluster deployment and management on Linux systems.
The article explains how adopting automation and continuous testing—through appropriate tools, metric tracking, containerization, transparent communication, multi‑layer and performance testing—accelerates error detection, improves software quality, and enables faster, reliable releases in modern DevOps pipelines.
The article examines how enterprises evolve their R&D capabilities through three stages—adopting mature toolchains, building integrated development platforms, and finally creating open technology platforms—highlighting the benefits, challenges, and best practices for improving delivery efficiency and fostering collaborative innovation.
This article introduces the Jenkins Deploy Dashboard plugin, explains its purpose for visualizing deployment status across environments, and provides step‑by‑step instructions—including adding deployments to the dashboard, creating the dashboard view, and adding deployment buttons—using both scripted and declarative pipelines.
An interview with Qingchuang Technology’s co‑founder reveals how their Sherlock AIOps platform passed the first domestic AIOps system and tool assessment, illustrating the role of AI‑driven alarm convergence, the significance of the CAICT maturity model, and future plans for intelligent IT operations across industries.
The article explains how AIOps, built on DevOps principles and leveraging AI and big‑data analytics, helps enterprises overcome governance challenges, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation, highlighting standards, real‑world evaluations, and key benefits such as real‑time analysis and noise reduction.
This guide presents a detailed 2021 Java learning roadmap covering programming fundamentals, JVM internals, concurrency, data structures, algorithms, databases, development tools, backend frameworks, DevOps practices, and interview preparation, with curated resources and a practical study schedule to help learners secure a strong job offer.
This guide explains how to set up SonarQube and Sonar‑scanner for static code analysis, run the scanner with project parameters, install the Sonar‑GitLab plugin, configure commit‑status integration, and use the resulting GitLab commit status to enforce merge‑request policies based on pipeline outcomes.
This extensive guide covers Docker fundamentals, container concepts, installation steps, basic and advanced commands, image lifecycle, volume handling, Dockerfile creation, networking options, Docker Compose orchestration, private registries, Harbor deployment, best‑practice recommendations, and monitoring techniques, providing a complete reference for container‑based development and operations.
The article details how Xueersi's 1‑to‑1 quality‑efficiency team transformed their cumbersome manual test‑environment setup into a fast, containerised, Kubernetes‑driven workflow, introducing swim‑lane environments, trace‑ID coloring, and a continuous‑delivery platform to dramatically improve resource utilization and deployment speed.
The article examines how AI-driven tools are reshaping DevOps practices, introducing concepts like AIOps and NoOps, evaluating their impact on development speed, quality, and the evolving role of engineers, and ultimately questioning whether AI will replace traditional DevOps personnel.
This tutorial shows how to uninstall Docker Desktop on macOS, install Hyperkit, Docker CLI, kubectl and Minikube, configure CPU/memory limits, enable Ingress, MetalLB and other add‑ons, and keep Docker images and volumes while running a local Kubernetes cluster efficiently.
Learn how to install Jenkins inside Docker using the jenkinsci/blueocean image, configure ports and volumes, unlock the instance, set up credentials for Git and SSH, create a multi‑branch pipeline with Blue Ocean, and write a Jenkinsfile that automates build, test, and deployment steps.
Zhang Chenyu from Lingque Cloud shares a comprehensive enterprise‑level Harbor case study, covering its role as an image registry, migration from 1.x to 2.x with multi‑architecture support, internal governance policies, integration with ACP, community contributions, performance workgroup findings, and the offered Harbor Enterprise edition.
Zhengzhou Bank’s new retail loan system passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, leading to a 2.31‑fold increase in annual delivery demand, an 18‑day reduction in cycle time, and a shift to automated, seconds‑level environment delivery, illustrating the transformative power of standardized DevOps practices.
