The article explains how DevOps extends digital value across the entire software delivery lifecycle, enabling lean IT organizations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and align technical and business operations through scenario‑based digital operations and accurate data and language integration.
The article examines how the rapid adoption of cloud computing, DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps is reshaping the role of IT operations, highlighting new trends, evolving work boundaries, and the essential characteristics of a modern, automated, secure, and cost‑optimized operations system.
This article explains DevOps as the integration of development and operations, defines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD), contrasts them with agile development, and illustrates how these practices streamline software delivery, testing, and production deployment.
This guide explains how to create a Dockerfile for a Java JAR, describes the purpose of each Docker instruction, shows how to build the image, run the container with proper ports and volumes, and view container logs.
This article describes how Worktile introduced Scrum, built an 8‑person self‑organizing Scrum team for the Lesschat product, iterated through two‑week Sprints, identified and solved scaling challenges, and eventually evolved into a multi‑team, hundred‑person agile R&D organization with continuous delivery practices.
The article outlines eight major 2021 DevOps trends—including the rise of microservices, increased DevSecOps adoption, infrastructure automation, predictive analytics in AIOps, AgileOps, AI/ML‑driven pipelines, Kubernetes integration, and cloud management platforms—highlighting their benefits and future impact on software delivery.
To meet the LEDAO platform’s need for rapid anomaly detection, full‑stack observability, and reliable alerting across more than 100 microservices, iQIYI evaluated OpenFalcon, Prometheus and CAT, selected CAT, deployed separate mainland and overseas clusters, added configurable access, health‑check and integrated alert channels, enabling five‑minute service onboarding, near‑zero‑intrusion instrumentation, and real‑time business‑level monitoring.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of modern DevOps practices and popular tools—including version control, containerization, orchestration, automation, collaboration, and monitoring—explaining their purposes, key features, and how they fit into the software delivery lifecycle.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Argo Workflows, covering its core concepts, installation of both controller and client, detailed examples of workflows, templates, variables, reusable WorkflowTemplate and ClusterWorkflowTemplate resources, and a practical CI/CD pipeline implementation on Kubernetes.
This article details Minsheng Bank's data middle platform built since 2018, explaining its cloud‑native architecture, the underlying microservice and container design, the operational pain points it addresses, and the suite of DevOps tools, management solutions, and component strategies that enable scalable, secure, and efficient financial data services.
This article walks through deploying the open‑source mall‑swarm project using Docker for supporting services on a base server and Kubernetes on an application server, covering image packaging, Docker Compose setup, Rancher installation, Nacos configuration, YAML deployments, and Nginx reverse‑proxy access, with full command examples.
The article explains how adopting a "special forces" style organizational structure—small, cross‑functional squads with clear goals and boundaries—can improve R&D efficiency, adaptability to changing business needs, performance assessment, and career development within modern software companies.
When a software organization exceeds one hundred members, merely copying existing DevOps practices is insufficient; instead, a three‑step approach—normalization, standardization, and platformization—must be applied to restructure teams, enable measurable outcomes, and sustain scalable efficiency across the enterprise.
This guide walks you through Helm V3’s key features, shows step‑by‑step commands to create deployments, services, and ingress resources, demonstrates installing and customizing a Helm chart, and explains how to upgrade, scale, and roll back applications on a Kubernetes cluster.
In this talk, Guoxin Securities’ operations expert Cai Hua outlines the architecture and massive user base of the Gold Sun mobile trading app, examines the unique operational challenges of securities platforms, and details the company’s comprehensive technical‑operations framework—including CMDB accuracy, automation, standardized release pipelines, multi‑layer monitoring, and full‑chain capacity testing—to ensure stability, scalability, and future innovation.
This article clarifies the distinction between deployment and release, explores historical shifts, and details contemporary strategies such as continuous deployment, on‑demand release, blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray releases, A/B testing, and feature toggles, illustrated with real‑world Facebook case studies.
This article explains how a rapidly growing tech team re‑engineered its DevOps toolchain—covering planning, building, testing, releasing, monitoring, CMDB design, and CI/CD improvements—to boost development efficiency, reduce coordination costs, and support a container‑based micro‑service architecture.
This weekly roundup covers Google’s GKE Autopilot managed Kubernetes service, Microsoft’s upcoming low‑code Power Fx language, a new quantum assembly language from Sandia, JD Cloud’s Jinggang virtualization platform, Google‑Intel cloud‑native 5G collaboration, Nvidia’s Jarvis AI framework, a knowledge‑infused BERT model, and a region‑based facial action unit detection method.
This guide walks you through installing GitLab Runner via Docker, configuring its types and states, registering it with a GitLab instance, and creating a simple .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline to verify end‑to‑end CI/CD functionality.
This article introduces the first rule of the "101 R&D Management Rules" series, explaining how a disciplined two‑week iteration cycle builds rhythm, culture, and productivity in a large development team while aligning with OKR goals and leveraging the PingCode tool.
Youzan migrated its large‑scale offline Spark workloads from YARN to a cloud‑native Kubernetes architecture, separating storage and compute with Ceph FS, adding dynamic executor allocation and remote shuffle services, and applying numerous Spark and deployment tweaks that yielded elastic scaling, higher resource utilization, reduced costs, and valuable operational lessons.
This article explains DevOps as the integration of development and operations, defines Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD), clarifies their relationship, and briefly touches on Agile development, providing a clear overview of modern software delivery practices.
This article explains how DevOps evolution intertwines with the surge of internet services, outlines its three conceptual phases, and demonstrates how digital visualization—both terminal‑focused and scenario‑focused—enhances organizational efficiency, quality, and decision‑making during enterprise digital transformation.
This guide explains how to install SonarQube and Sonar‑scanner, configure scanning parameters, add the Sonar‑GitLab plugin, and use additional properties to link scan results to GitLab commit statuses, enabling pipeline‑based merge request control.
The author chronicles his experience learning coaching, treats coaching as a product, and demonstrates how applying MVP principles and a DevOps mindset—through iterative releases, feedback loops, and metrics like lead time and NPS—can transform personal development into a systematic, customer‑focused process.
This comprehensive guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack—languages, components, processes, and systems—offering practical recommendations on project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, monitoring, and deployment to help startups design a robust, cloud‑native backend architecture.
This guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack for startups, covering language choices, core components like DNS, load balancing, CDN, RPC frameworks, databases, messaging, logging, monitoring, configuration, deployment, and operational best‑practice processes.
This article examines the rise of Serverless computing in China, comparing major providers, analyzing adoption trends, highlighting technical and operational challenges, and offering practical guidance for developers and enterprises seeking cost‑effective, scalable solutions.
This article introduces the Python‑based WebSSH tool that lets you access Linux machines through a web browser, outlines its key features, provides step‑by‑step installation and service‑startup commands, and explains how to configure root login for seamless remote management.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide on upgrading GitLab versions, explains new CI/CD features in GitLab 13.8 such as exit‑code‑controlled job failures, rule‑based variables, Docker pull policies, artifact retention settings, predefined variables, and shows how to visualize pipeline configurations with code examples.
This article examines the rapid rise of Serverless computing in 2021, analyzes market dynamics, highlights technical and operational challenges such as language support, cold starts, and package size, and offers practical guidance for developers and enterprises to adopt Serverless effectively while optimizing cost and performance.
This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on installing Prometheus, configuring its components, deploying it in a Kubernetes cluster with proper RBAC and persistent storage, and extending monitoring to applications and exporters using /metrics endpoints.
This article explains the cloud native paradigm—originating from Matt Stine in 2013—and its core components such as DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, agile infrastructure, and the Twelve‑Factor App, showing how they enable resilient, scalable applications built directly on cloud services.
This article explains Jenkins declarative pipelines, showing how to define pipelines in a Jenkinsfile, use agents, stages, steps, and optional features like Docker agents, environment variables, timeouts, and post‑actions, with practical code examples for building and archiving Java applications.
This guide explains how to allocate and control CPU and memory for containers and Pods in Kubernetes, covering resource units, request and limit settings, ResourceQuota objects, LimitRange defaults, practical YAML examples, and useful monitoring tools.
The article examines how data teams can select the appropriate Ops framework—DataOps, MLOps, or AIOps—by comparing their origins, principles, responsibilities, and tooling, and stresses that cultural principles outweigh technology choices for efficient delivery of data and machine‑learning products.
This article provides an extensive overview of the most popular Docker‑related tools—including orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, security, storage, networking, service discovery, image building, and management solutions—detailing their core features, official websites, pricing models, and typical use cases for developers and operations engineers.
This guide walks through setting up a three‑node Zookeeper ensemble, configuring ActiveMQ with replicated LevelDB storage, and starting the services on each host, providing full command‑line steps, configuration snippets, and verification screenshots for a production‑grade deployment.
This comprehensive guide explains the differences between deployment and release, defines continuous deployment and on‑demand release, and details practical strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray, and A/B testing, supported by feature toggles, feature branches, and real‑world Facebook case studies.
This guide explains Ansible playbooks, their required hosts and tasks sections, optional fields like name and become, YAML indentation rules, module usage, and demonstrates creating and executing a playbook that installs and starts Apache on a target host.
This article explores Alibaba’s massive cloud‑native investments since 2017, Zhang Lei’s historic election to the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, his pivotal contributions to Kubernetes and open‑source projects, and his vision for the evolving cloud‑native ecosystem in China and beyond.
DiDi’s NodeX initiative unites multiple front‑end teams to create a group‑level, professional, efficient, and stable Node.js development ecosystem that provides reusable components, a unified framework, common services, performance‑analysis tools, and documentation platforms, dramatically lowering service‑building barriers and boosting business productivity.
GrowingIO’s QA leader shares the company’s CI/CD journey, detailing the concepts of continuous integration, delivery, deployment, the tools and branch strategies used, and the challenges and improvements in their SaaS product’s DevOps pipeline, offering practical insights for teams building efficient release processes.
This guide explains Ansible variable naming conventions, the three scopes (global, play, host/group), and demonstrates each with clear playbook snippets, showing how to define, import, and override variables using command‑line options, vars, vars_files, host_vars, and group_vars.
This guide walks through installing GitLab CE on CentOS 8 via an RPM package, adjusting the gitlab.rb configuration, managing the GitLab service, testing access, and optionally connecting GitLab to an external PostgreSQL database running in Docker.
This article introduces Knative as a Kubernetes‑based serverless platform, explains its three core components, walks through deploying a Hello World service with YAML and kubectl commands, shows how configuration changes create revisions, demonstrates traffic splitting, and illustrates integration with external services such as Twilio.
The IDCF 6th DevOps case study event featured four expert groups presenting in‑depth analyses of continuous operations, collaborative development, CI/CD pipelines, and testing practices, highlighting practical insights, tool comparisons, and real‑world case studies that earned the testing team the best‑case award.
Microsoft's Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 introduces an alpha Settings UI, requires manual binding via settings.json, and adds automatic backups of previous settings files, with detailed steps and code snippets to help users enable and locate the new interface.
DevOps combines development and operations practices, requiring knowledge of software development concepts, Linux, networking, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, orchestration, monitoring, infrastructure as code, scripting, and version control, with tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Git.
This guide explains why Helm is essential for managing Kubernetes applications, describes its three core concepts—charts, releases, and repositories—and shows how to integrate Helm with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and a Sonatype Nexus Helm repository using practical command‑line examples.
The article explains the origins and differences of DevOps, DataOps, MLOps and AIOps, outlines their shared seven principles, and provides practical guidance on adopting the right X‑Ops culture to accelerate data‑driven and machine‑learning‑powered software delivery.
This guide presents a comprehensive checklist of production‑grade Kubernetes best practices, covering container image selection, registry management, namespace isolation, labeling, security controls, CI/CD, monitoring, service mesh adoption, and advanced features to keep clusters stable, secure, and efficient.
From 2020 to 2021, Zhenkunxing built a visual‑editing service, a unified UI component library, standardized development, compilation and deployment pipelines, a front‑end portal, an online‑form system, an OKR tool, and a micro‑frontend BOSS platform, while planning a low‑code platform to boost efficiency and scalability.
This guide walks through installing HashiCorp Vault on Linux and Kubernetes, configuring it for secret management, enabling Kubernetes authentication, creating policies and roles, and accessing secrets via initContainers or the Vault SDK, providing a complete end‑to‑end secure integration.
This guide walks you through installing the Mattermost Jira plugin, setting up webhook secrets, linking Jira application URLs, configuring Mattermost commands, and creating Jira issues directly from Mattermost to streamline DevOps collaboration without leaving the chat platform.
In a 2020 interview at the GOLF+ IT Governance Leadership Forum, TaiKang Insurance Group detailed its DevOps transformation, highlighting a 60% deployment efficiency gain, automated testing improvements, cross‑departmental challenges, and future 2021 plans to expand automation, Kubernetes integration, and DevSecOps initiatives.
This article explains the twenty‑one key non‑functional characteristics of software architecture—such as performance, reliability, scalability, security and maintainability—detailing their definitions, typical metrics, and practical techniques for improvement, while linking each trait to ISO‑25010 and real‑world engineering practices.
StackStorm is an open‑source automation platform that connects existing infrastructure and applications, enabling event‑driven actions, workflow orchestration, and rule‑based operations across services such as monitoring, deployment, and incident response.
This guide walks through Kubernetes fundamentals—including Pods, Controllers, Services, Labels, and Namespaces—and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for migrating a Java project to a Kubernetes cluster, building Docker images, pushing to Docker Hub, creating deployments, and exposing the service.
The article chronicles how the fast‑growing startup Meddy transformed its monolithic AWS setup by adopting managed services such as RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticsearch, Application Load Balancer, serverless Lambdas, ElastiCache, and Grafana Loki to achieve scalable, reliable, and observable cloud infrastructure.
The article explains how to design and evolve agile R&D organization structures—from a small startup team to medium, large, and multinational groups—by applying high‑cohesion, low‑coupling, and full‑functionality principles, using Spotify’s squad‑tribe‑chapter‑guild model and rotation mechanisms to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure.
This guide explains GitLab CI/CD concepts, configuration files, runner setup, pipeline stages, and advanced features like Auto DevOps, providing step‑by‑step examples and code snippets for practical implementation.
This guide shows how to create matching repositories on GitHub and Gitee, configure a single local Git repository to push to both remotes, and keep them synchronized automatically, providing step‑by‑step commands, config file edits, and practical tips for developers.
This article defines DevOps, outlines its benefits and drawbacks, and explains key concepts such as automation, CI/CD, multi‑environment deployments, early failure detection, rollback, policy enforcement, and observability, showing how they collectively improve software delivery and organizational collaboration.
This guide walks through preparing the Linux environment on Kubernetes master and node machines, creating a bare Git repository, configuring SSH access, cloning the repository, and demonstrating core Git commands such as add, commit, status, diff, and push to a remote server.
This guide explains how to improve the Jenkins UI by installing the Simple Theme plugin, applying an online Material CSS theme, and creating a local CSS file for further customization, complete with step‑by‑step instructions and code snippets.
This article explains why and how to replace Jenkins Freestyle projects with Pipeline jobs, detailing the limitations of Freestyle, the benefits of Pipeline, and providing a complete scripted pipeline example that automates code checkout, building, testing, reporting, and email notifications.
In an exclusive interview at the 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum, Anxin Securities CIO Xu Yabin shares her 20‑year journey, the company’s pandemic response, digital transformation achievements, DevOps maturity, and ambitious plans for 2021, highlighting the role of IT leadership in finance.
This article demonstrates how to create and run an Ansible Playbook that changes hostnames and appends entries to /etc/hosts on two Linux servers, showing the required inventory, YAML playbook, command execution, and verification steps with accompanying screenshots.
Learn how to automate SSH logins on macOS using iTerm2's Trigger feature, create reusable Expect scripts, and enable fast file transfers with Zmodem, covering detailed configuration steps, regex tuning, and solutions to common pitfalls for seamless remote server access.
This article examines the concepts of design thinking, lean, agile, and DevOps, explains their shared user‑centric goals, and proposes a combined, value‑driven framework that maps, analyzes, and automates the end‑to‑end delivery process through integrated platforms and tooling.
This article explores a wide range of alternative roles for programmers—from developer relations and product management to data science and freelancing—offering practical advice on how existing software development skills can be leveraged for new, rewarding career opportunities.
This article explains what cloud‑native DevOps is, contrasts it with traditional DevOps using real‑world analogies, outlines its core principles, foundations and capabilities, and presents a detailed Alibaba case study that walks through architecture upgrades, IaC/GitOps, resource BaaS, and a five‑stage migration roadmap.
In an exclusive interview at the 2020 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum, the Deputy General Manager of China Agricultural Bank’s R&D Center explains how the bank’s DevOps initiative since 2019 has accelerated digital transformation, improved delivery speed, tackled pandemic‑era challenges, and set ambitious plans for 2021.
This guide explains how to version‑control Hugo blog posts on GitHub, set up a GitHub Actions workflow that builds and publishes the static site, and mirror the generated pages to Gitee for faster access, covering branch strategy, CI/CD steps, and required code snippets.
In this interview, Tencent Classroom’s front‑end lead Jay shares how his team built a systematic front‑end engineering efficiency framework, covering the evolution from basic build tools to full‑stack CI/CD, AI‑driven automation, and practical advice for new developers.
This article details Ant Group's two‑year journey of adopting Service Mesh at massive scale, explaining why Service Mesh is needed for microservice governance, heterogeneous system unification, and financial‑grade security, and describing the architecture, migration strategies, stability mechanisms, operational results, and future directions toward a full mesh and serverless era.
This guide walks through installing Gogs, creating a start‑up script, configuring a systemd service, launching the server, checking its status, creating repositories via the web UI or command line, and pushing code with saved credentials, all on a Linux host.
This guide explains how to address three frequent SonarQube challenges—unstable data across branches, difficulty assigning custom rule sets to new projects, and project permission management—by creating per‑branch projects, using REST APIs for quality profiles, and applying permission templates via Jenkins integration.
This tutorial walks you through setting up Jenkins with Docker, exploring built‑in and custom pipeline environment variables, overriding rules, Boolean handling, and capturing shell command output, providing practical code examples for each step.
The 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum in Beijing highlighted industry best practices, honored ICBC senior manager Qian Xianglong as the financial sector leader, and featured an in‑depth interview where he discussed his career, 2020 DevOps achievements, and ambitious 2021 plans for standardization, tooling, and security.
This guide walks through Docker’s workflow—image building with Dockerfiles, container startup, and service orchestration with docker‑compose—providing step‑by‑step examples for creating nginx, PHP, Tomcat, Jenkins, and a full LNMP stack, plus essential commands and configuration tips.
This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, examining their histories, core features, plugin ecosystems, scalability, community support, advantages, disadvantages, and selection criteria to help DevOps engineers choose the most suitable continuous integration and delivery platform for their projects.
The 2020 review highlights major DevOps standard advancements in China, a comprehensive national DevOps survey with over 1,800 responses, detailed maturity assessments across numerous enterprises, and the progress of the enterprise‑level DevOps empowerment program, illustrating the rapid evolution of DevOps practices and security integration.
This article explains four concrete distinctions between Jenkins scripted and declarative pipelines—code validation at start, restarting from a specific stage, options handling, and conditional stage execution—illustrated with side‑by‑side code examples and screenshots of their behavior.
This guide explains why Docker containers improve security, then details three fundamental steps—running images as non‑root users, using a private registry, and keeping images minimal—plus practical commands, multi‑stage builds, and Docker Content Trust to protect your containerized applications from attacks.
This article demonstrates how to centralize microservice deployment with Jenkins by leveraging GitLab integration and the parallel syntax to run tasks and stages concurrently, speeding up releases and reducing manual effort.
This guide explains how to automate the creation of Jenkins pipeline jobs by generating Job DSL templates, converting them to XML via an online playground, and applying the Jenkins Core API or Script Console to create or update jobs programmatically.
This tutorial shows how to set up Docker‑in‑Docker for a Jenkins master, resolve permission issues, and create CI/CD pipelines where each stage runs in its own Docker container using Maven and Node images.
This guide explains how to use GitLab CI to automatically build, push, and run Docker images for a Spring Boot application, covering Dockerfile creation, Java version considerations, environment variable management, and deployment steps across development, testing, and production environments.
This article introduces a curated set of Kubernetes tools covering cluster deployment, monitoring, command‑line utilities, and development aids, explaining each tool's purpose, key features, and typical use cases for modern cloud‑native operations.
This article reviews seven popular static code analysis tools, outlining why static analysis matters, each tool's key features, drawbacks, supported languages, and pricing to help developers choose the right solution for improving code quality and security.
Discover five emerging open-source Kubernetes projects—including Quarkus, OpenTelemetry, Argo CD, Envoy/Contour, and OKD 4—that are driving cloud-native innovation in 2021 by enhancing Java workloads, observability, GitOps, traffic management, and developer tooling, and simplifying deployment pipelines.
This article explains what DevOps is, outlines its key benefits such as faster feedback loops, higher quality and reduced costs, compares it with traditional IT operations, and provides practical guidance on mindset shifts, infrastructure as code, automation, and tool selection for successful adoption.
The author reflects on 2020, detailing DevOps achievements such as automated Jenkins pipelines, Artifactory migration, Python integrations, and Git standards, while outlining personal 2021 goals to improve English speaking, deepen technical learning, and maintain work‑life balance.
The Tencent IMWeb team’s 2020 analysis highlights seven key frontend trends—explosive TypeScript adoption, React’s dominance among major frameworks, the rise of WebAssembly, accelerating low‑code platforms, serverless full‑stack development, DevOps maturation, and booming WebRTC—while forecasting continued growth in these areas for 2021.
The PODE (Product + OKR + DevOps + Empower) framework, created by China Unicom’s Operations and Scheduling Center, restructures product teams, aligns objectives with measurable results, adopts DevOps practices, and empowers staff, dramatically improving collaboration, efficiency, and product quality across distributed teams.
This article recounts a two‑year journey of migrating from Ansible‑managed EC2 deployments to Kubernetes, detailing the motivations, migration strategy, operational challenges, tooling choices, resource management, security, cost considerations, and the development of custom controllers and CRDs to run production workloads reliably.
This article explores the author's personal interpretation of values, beliefs, and principles within Erikson coaching, relates them to the Cynefin decision‑making framework, and examines how these concepts align with the International DevOps Coach Federation's (IDCF) DevOps values and principles.
Zhejiang Mobile’s OSS 4.0 Capability Center passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing a six‑month transformation that reduced delivery cycles to one week, cut release time to three minutes, and boosted build efficiency by 96.7% through a unified, cloud‑native DevOps pipeline.
